[2][3] In the final, England beat Pakistan by five wickets to win their second ICC Men's T20 World Cup title and draw level with the West Indies, who also won 2 ICC Men's T20 World Cup titles in both the 2012 and the 2016 edition.

[6] The host cities for matches were Adelaide, Brisbane, Geelong, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.

[7] This was after the ICC granted full international status to Twenty20 matches played between member sides from 1 January 2019 onwards.

The twelve teams that reached the Super 12 phase of the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup automatically qualified for the 2022 tournament.

[19] Namibia, Scotland, Sri Lanka and the West Indies were all placed in the group stage of the competition.

[10] From the Global Qualifier A tournament, Ireland and the United Arab Emirates progressed to the T20 World Cup.

[32] In October 2021, Group B of the Asia qualifier was also cancelled due to the pandemic, with Hong Kong progressing as the highest-ranked team.

[34] Germany finished in second place, ahead of Italy on net run rate, to also advance from the European group.

[35] Bahrain won Group A of the Asia qualifier, finishing just ahead of Qatar on net run rate.

[39] On 3 October 2022, the ICC named the match referees and the umpires for the group stage of the tournament.

[43] Match referees Umpires On 1 September 2022, Australia were the first team to announce their squad for the tournament.

The following warm-up matches for the 2022 ICC Men's T20 World Cup were played between 10 and 19 October between all participants.

In the 13th over, the game changed when Shaheen Shah Afridi slid forward to take a catch off Shadab Khan, dismissing Harry Brook.