Directions: Six sentences are given; one sentence is going to be filled with the appropriate word. Arrange the sentences to form a meaningful paragraph. Read the sentences carefully and answer the questions that follow.

A. Finally, as the virus seemingly wanes, cricket’s shortest version moves Down Under during a time when the Indian Premier League (IPL), Big Bash, and other mushrooming leagues are eating into the international calendar.

B. The big game, as advertisers prefer to label it, would pit India against Pakistan at Melbourne on Sunday. 

C. When defending champion Australia takes on the last edition’s runner-up New Zealand at Sydney on Saturday, the ICC Twenty20 World Cup would have made a quick turnaround from its previous edition that was held last year in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

D. For Twenty20 international fixtures often lost between forgettable bilateral contests and the glamorous sway of the IPL and other leagues, the T20 World Cup’s eighth edition has already commenced through its set of qualifiers and ______________.

E. With IPL franchises spreading footprints across the seas, especially in South Africa, contracted players are caught in an old debate borrowed from football — club versus country.

F. The COVID-19 pandemic affected sport and T20’s premier championship suffered multiple changes in schedule besides the logistical nightmare of venues being altered.