England ladies’s crew captain Heather Knight feels “fairly gutted” concerning the Worldwide Cricket Council’s (ICC) resolution to postpone the Girls’s World Cup from 2021 to 2022 and mentioned the quadrennial occasion was possible in New Zealand this 12 months. Knight expressed hope that boards is not going to use it as an excuse to neglect ladies’s cricket. “Fairly gutted to be sincere. I do know powerful choices should be made proper now and it will have taken plenty of work (and $$), however it was possible in NZ. Hopefully, it’s not an excuse for boards to place ladies’s cricket on the again burner for the following 12 months with no WC to arrange for,” Knight tweeted.
On August 7, the ICC introduced that the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup 2021 in New Zealand has been postponed till February-March 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The format of the postponed ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup will stay because it was for 2021. 5 groups have already certified for the occasion and that can stand for 2022.
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The unique world qualification occasion to find out the ultimate three groups to contest the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup was scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka in July this 12 months however was postponed attributable to COVID-19. The qualification occasion will now be held in 2021.
“We have now taken the choice to maneuver the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup to offer gamers from each competing nation, one of the best alternative to be prepared for the world’s greatest stage and there’s nonetheless a worldwide qualifier to finish to determine the ultimate three groups,” ICC Chief Government Manu Sawhney had mentioned.
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