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What’s next for every major ICC tournament and the Asia Cup, dates, hosts, and defending champions for each event.
ICC Men’s T20 World Cup
The tenth edition of the Men’s T20 World Cup wrapped up in March 2026 with India retaining the title they’d won in 2024, beating New Zealand by 96 runs in the final at Narendra Modi Stadium a result that made India the first team to win the tournament three times and the first host nation ever to lift the trophy on home soil.
Co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka across eight venues, the tournament also produced a genuine breakout story in Pakistan’s Sahibzada Farhan, who finished as the competition’s leading run-scorer.
Attention now turns to 2028, when the tournament heads to Australia and New Zealand for an October edition New Zealand’s second time hosting an ICC event since the 2015 Cricket World Cup, and a tournament the ICC has already flagged as part of cricket’s broader push for Olympic inclusion at the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
ICC Women’s T20 World Cup
England hosted the tenth edition of the Women’s T20 World Cup from 12 June to 5 July 2026, expanding the tournament to twelve teams for the first time and staging matches across seven venues nationwide. Australia added another title to their long list of trophies, continuing a run of dominance in the women’s game that few nations have come close to matching.
The next edition moves to 2028, when Pakistan takes on hosting duties for the first time part of the same 2024–2027 ICC hosting cycle that has already sent the men’s tournament, the Champions Trophy, and the Women’s ODI World Cup to venues across South Asia and the Gulf, with neutral-venue arrangements in place for any India-Pakistan fixtures.
ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup
Cricket’s original global tournament returns to Africa for the first time in nearly a quarter-century when South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Namibia jointly host the 2027 edition from October 4 to November 21. It’s a historic moment on more than one front: Namibia will stage World Cup matches for the first time in the country’s history, and the tournament expands back to fourteen teams after two editions played with just ten.
South Africa is expected to carry the bulk of the fixture load with eight venues, while Zimbabwe adds a third host city in Victoria Falls alongside Harare and Bulawayo, and Namibia’s capital, Windhoek, rounds out the trio.
The three host nations have already begun building toward the tournament, playing a landmark T20I tri-series together in August 2026 as an early step toward a planned Africa Cup down the line. Australia arrive as defending champions after their 2023 triumph in India.
ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup
India’s women lifted their first-ever ODI World Cup title on home soil on 2 November 2025, beating South Africa by 52 runs in front of a sold-out DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai a result built on Shafali Verma’s career-best 87 and a five-wicket haul from Deepti Sharma in the final over of South Africa’s chase. It was the biggest moment yet for the women’s game commercially too, with a total prize pool of $13.88 million that dwarfed every previous edition.
The tournament now feeds into a four-year ICC Women’s Championship cycle running through 2029, an eleven-team qualification pathway that determines who joins India at the next World Cup. The host nation for 2029 has yet to be formally confirmed.
ICC Champions Trophy
The ninth edition of the Champions Trophy returned in early 2025 after an eight-year absence, with Pakistan hosting its first global cricket event since 1996 though India’s matches, including their eventual run to the title, were shifted to the UAE under a hybrid arrangement covering the current ICC rights cycle.
India beat New Zealand to claim their third Champions Trophy, with Rachin Ravindra earning Player of the Tournament honours for New Zealand despite the runners-up finish. The next edition doesn’t arrive until October 2029, when India takes over as host a tournament far enough out that squad and format details remain to be confirmed, but one already being watched closely given the hybrid-hosting precedent set in 2025.
Asia Cup (Men’s)
Worth a quick clarification before anything else: the Asia Cup is organised by the Asian Cricket Council, not the ICC, which is part of why its format alternates between T20 and ODI cricket depending on what best prepares teams for the ICC tournament on the horizon that year. India head into the next edition as defending champions after winning the T20 format tournament in 2025.
The 2027 Asia Cup shifts back to the 50-over format and heads to Bangladesh from 18 June to 4 July deliberately scheduled a few months ahead of that year’s ODI World Cup in southern Africa, giving Asian teams a high-stakes tournament to settle their one-day combinations before the bigger event. Matches will be split across Dhaka, Chattogram, and Sylhet, with six teams competing in a group-stage-into-Super Four format.
Asia Cup (Women’s)
The women’s edition is next up on the calendar and arrives quickly: the tenth Women’s Asia Cup runs from 28 August to 13 September 2026, hosted for the first time by the UAE at Dubai International Stadium.
Sri Lanka arrive as defending champions after ending India’s long stranglehold on the trophy in the 2024 final, and India will be looking to reclaim a title they’ve won seven times since the competition began with a mouth-watering group-stage meeting between the two rivals scheduled for 5 September.
Eight teams make up the field this year, including tournament debutants Indonesia, split into two groups of four ahead of the semi-finals and final.
Upcoming T20 Franchise Cricket Leagues
The latest results and upcoming editions of the PSL, SA20, LPL, MLC, GT20 Canada, and ILT20.
Pakistan Super League (PSL)
Peshawar Zalmi ended a nine-year wait for a second title in May 2026, beating debutants Hyderabad Kingsmen by five wickets in a final at Gaddafi Stadium that turned on one of the great individual performances in PSL history Aaron Hardie took four wickets and then steadied a shaky chase with an unbeaten 56, becoming the first player to take a four-wicket haul and score a fifty in a single PSL final.
It capped a season of real structural change for the league: PSL 11 expanded from six to eight franchises for the first time, adding Hyderabad Kingsmen and Rawalpindiz, and shifted from the old draft system to a full player auction. Captain Babar Azam finished as the tournament’s leading run-scorer in the process. The twelfth edition is expected to follow the same eight-team format in 2027, though the PCB hasn’t yet confirmed exact dates or venues.
South Africa T20 League (SA20)
Sunrisers Eastern Cape reclaimed the SA20 title in January 2026, their third in four seasons, chasing down 159 against Pretoria Capitals behind an unbroken 114-run stand between Matthew Breetzke (68 not out) and Tristan Stubbs (63 not out) at Newlands.
The result underlined how quickly Sunrisers have separated themselves from the rest of the six-team field since the league’s 2023 launch they’ve now missed the title only once, when MI Cape Town won it in 2025. The competition has stuck to the same double round-robin-plus-playoffs structure since its inception, and the fifth season is expected to return to its usual December–January window in the 2026–27 South African summer.
Lanka Premier League (LPL)
Galle Gallants won their first LPL title on home soil this month, dismissing Jaffna Kings for just 123 before chasing the target down with five wickets and 25 balls in hand at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. Charith Asalanka and Eshan Malinga did the damage with the ball, sharing six wickets to dismantle a Jaffna middle order that had carried the four-time champions to three finals in the previous five seasons.
It’s a meaningful changing of the guard for a league that Jaffna Kings had dominated since 2021. With the sixth edition now wrapped up, Sri Lanka Cricket is expected to keep the tournament in its established July–August slot for 2027.
Major League Cricket (MLC)
Los Angeles Knight Riders claimed their maiden MLC title in July 2026 in about as tight a finish as T20 cricket produces a one-run win over Washington Freedom at the Oakland Coliseum, sealed when Shadley van Schalkwyk defended 14 runs off the final over with Sunil Narine and Jason Holder having done the early damage.
It was a genuine turnaround story: Los Angeles had managed just five wins across the competition’s first three seasons before finishing the 2026 league stage in second place and running the table through the playoffs. The fourth season also introduced a new venue, the Knight Riders Cricket Field at Fairplex in Pomona, California, replacing the league’s old Lauderhill site in Florida. Organizers have already flagged continued year-on-year growth in ticket sales and broadcast reach heading into the 2027 season.
Global T20 Canada (GT20)
Canada’s franchise league returned for a fifth edition in summer 2026 under new administration, National Cricket League Canada, following Cricket Canada’s termination of its previous operating agreement in late 2024 over payment disputes.
The rebrand brought an almost entirely new set of franchise names to the competition Brampton Blazers, Mississauga Skyhawks, Surrey Fraser, Toronto Titans, and Vancouver Guardians joined the returning Montreal Tigers replacing the Toronto Nationals, Winnipeg Hawks, and other sides that had competed since the league’s 2018 launch.
The tournament ran through late July and into August at the CAA Centre in Brampton, though a confirmed champion for this rebranded edition wasn’t available from official sources at the time of writing; fans following the league closely should check GT20’s official channels for the final result before it’s folded into next year’s build-up.
International League T20 (ILT20)
The UAE’s franchise league is next up on the T20 calendar, with the fifth season of the ILT20 scheduled to run from 22 November to 20 December 2026 across the tournament’s usual six-team, double round-robin format.
Desert Vipers arrive as defending champions after winning their maiden title in the 2025–26 season, beating MI Emirates in a campaign led by Player of the Tournament Sam Curran, who topped the run charts as well. The league has settled into a reliable late-November-to-December window each year since its 2023 launch, giving it a clear run before the SA20 and PSL seasons that follow in the new year.
Pakistan Cricket Series
Here is the Pakistan international series tours for 2026-27, men’s and women’s, home and away updated.
Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka (T20Is) — January
Pakistan opened their 2026 international calendar with a three-match T20I series in Sri Lanka, all three games played at the Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium from 7 to 11 January — an early tune-up in a year built around the T20 World Cup.
Australia tour of Pakistan (T20Is) — January-February
Pakistan hosted Australia for a three-match T20I series from 30 January to 5 February, the last piece of preparation before the World Cup squad assembled — a fixture made sharper by the fact both sides would meet global rivals within weeks in the tournament proper.
Australia tour of Pakistan (ODIs) — May-June
Australia returned to Pakistan for a three-match ODI series, which Pakistan won 2-1 — a rare fully completed bilateral assignment sandwiched between the T20 World Cup and the PSL playoffs.
Pakistan tour of Bangladesh (Tests) — May
Pakistan’s spring Test assignment in Bangladesh didn’t go to plan: Bangladesh won the two-match series 2-0, a result that added pressure on the Test side heading into the WTC’s business end.
Pakistan tour of West Indies (Tests) — July-August
A two-Test series against the West Indies ran from 25 July to 6 August, and Pakistan closed it out in style, sealing the series with a commanding eight-wicket win in Trinidad.
Pakistan tour of England (Tests) — August-September
Pakistan’s biggest remaining assignment of the year: a three-Test series from 19 August to 13 September, part of the ongoing 2025-27 World Test Championship cycle. Both sides sat in the bottom half of the WTC standings heading into the series, with Babar Azam back in the Test captaincy after Shan Masood’s difficult run in charge (four wins from 16 Tests).
Sri Lanka tour of Pakistan (Tests) — November
A two-Test series at home against Sri Lanka is expected to round out Pakistan’s confirmed home international cricket for the year — a reciprocal fixture following Pakistan’s own T20I tour there in January.
Pakistan Tri Series: Ireland, Zimbabwe, and New Zealand
Beyond the fixtures above, the PCB’s approved budget for the 2026-27 financial year adds a new tri-series involving Pakistan, Ireland, and Zimbabwe, a full Test tour from Ireland that will include their first-ever Test on Pakistani soil, and a two-Test home series against New Zealand to close out the WTC cycle. Exact dates for these hadn’t been finalized at the time of writing and may land in late 2026 or early 2027.