Cricket will mark its go back to the Commonwealth Video games after an opening of 24 years with India taking over Australia on July 29 within the 2022 Birmingham version.
The league-cum-knockout ladies’s match kicks off with a fit between ladies’s 2020 T20 International Cup finalists Australia and India on July 29, with the bronze and gold medal fits scheduled for August 7.
Cricket is the primary area to announce its entire line-up for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Video games after Sri Lanka was once showed because the 8th staff within the ladies’s T20 match, the ICC mentioned on Tuesday.
The announcement was once made collectively by means of the World Cricket Council and the Commonwealth Video games Federation (CGF) following Sri Lanka’s victory within the Commonwealth Video games Qualifier in Kuala Lumpur ultimate week and the next CGF ratification of the island country’s access.
Australia, Barbados, England, India, New Zealand, South Africa and Pakistan have already certified as ladies’s cricket makes its first access into the Commonwealth Video games.
It’ll handiest be the second one time that cricket options within the multi-discipline match after a males’s pageant was once a part of the Video games in Kuala Lumpur in 1998 and is thought of as a large alternative to deliver the sport to new audiences.
A Shaun Pollock-led South Africa had received the gold on that instance, beating Steve Waugh’s Australian aspect by means of 4 wickets within the ultimate.
ICC Corridor of Famers Sachin Tendulkar of India, Jacques Kallis of South Africa and Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka have been a few of the many stars that includes within the 1998 Video games.
Barbados and Pakistan are in Staff A along side Australia and India whilst England, New Zealand, South Africa and Sri Lanka shape Staff B.
The ICC, CGF and Commonwealth Video games Sri Lanka congratulated Sri Lanka for his or her qualification and appeared ahead to a thrilling match.
ICC Leader Govt Geoff Allardice mentioned: “It is advisable have finalised the id of the groups collaborating within the Commonwealth Video games. We can have 8 of the most efficient groups competing for the gold and I’m positive we will be able to get to look at a extremely aggressive match.
“The Commonwealth Video games are the most important a part of the ladies’s cricket calendar over the following yr. This can be a large alternative for us to take cricket past the standard strongholds and provides extra folks around the globe the risk to benefit from the recreation.”
CGF President Dame Louise Martin mentioned: “Cricket is a game synonymous with the Commonwealth. We’re so excited to have it again within the Video games for the primary time for the reason that males’s 50 over pageant at Kuala Lumpur in 1998.
“The debut of girls’s T20 cricket can be a ancient second and a stupendous exhibit of girls’s game internationally.”
The Birmingham Commonwealth Video games, being held from July 28 to August 8, will see 4,500 athletes from 72 countries and territories compete throughout 11 days.
Birmingham 2022 would be the first main multi-sport match in historical past to award extra medals to ladies than males.
