Africa Cricket Association (ACA) have announced that Cricket Kenya (CK) have been awarded the hosting rights for the Africa T20 Cup finals tournament in Nairobi in Mar 2020. All matches will be played with official T20I status and ranking points towards ICC Men’s T20I team rankings.

The top 3 teams qualifying from the regional tournaments (Western and Southern) will join Kenya and Uganda (Eastern) in the 8-nation tournament. Group A will comprise of Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon, while Group B consist’s of Kenya, Botswana, Malawi and Mozambique.

The tournament group stage will be played in a single round-robin format, following which, the top team from each group will contest in the Final of the inaugural edition of ACA Africa T20 Cup. ACA had originally announced that the tournament will be held in Sep 2019, however Uganda’s Daily Monitor have now mentioned in their article that the event will take place in Mar 2020.

The sub-regional qualifiers for 2021 Men’s T20 World Cup for the African region will also commence in 2020, with the article also stating that Rwanda will be hosting the group B of the sub-regional qualifiers, in which Uganda will be taking part.