Bangladesh is all set to host the Ladies’s Asia Cup 2022 within the T20I format from October 1-16 and a complete of seven groups will combat for the distinguished trophy. The ultimate schedule and different particulars are but to be introduced by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), however it’s reportedly being mentioned that India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, and UAE would be the different six groups other than Bangladesh.
The competitors will start following the conclusion of the 2022 Ladies’s T20 World Cup Qualifier within the UAE within the closing week of September. The primary two weeks of October have been designated for this 12 months’s Ladies’s Asia Cup within the ICC’s first-ever Ladies’s Future Excursions Programme, which was unveiled final week.
Shafiul Alam Chowdhury Nadel, the chairperson of Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB) ladies’s committee, revealed the aforementioned dates for the Asia Cup to ESPNcricinfo. As a result of COVID-19 pandemic, the occasion that was initially scheduled to happen in 2020 was moved to 2021 as an alternative. The occasion finally needed to be cancelled as issues bought worse.
The Ladies’s Asia Cup is usually held each two years, however the pandemic state of affairs made the scheduling troublesome. The match has been held within the 20-over format since 2012. The Sylhet Worldwide Cricket Stadium will host the match, with floor 1 designated for matches and floor 2 for coaching.
“The proximity to the airport and the resort the place the seven groups are anticipated to remain makes the Sylhet Worldwide Cricket Stadium your best option for the BCB. Floor 1 of the Sylhet Worldwide Cricket Stadium is the place we wish to host the Ladies’s Asia Cup matches and Floor 2 is the place the coaching will happen,” Chowdhury, who can be a BCB director, instructed ESPNcricinfo on Monday.
We’re completely satisfied to welcome the Asian Cricket Council’s Ladies’s Asia Cup to our nation for the primary time: BCB Chair Shafiul Alam Chowdhury
Bangladesh has not hosted any ladies’s worldwide matches since Pakistan‘s go to to the nation in October 2018. The 2022 Asia Cup can even mark Sylhet’s first internet hosting of any worldwide ladies’s matches for the reason that T20 World Cup 2014. Bangladesh can even be internet hosting the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup in 2024 which is one other enhance for the nation.
“As host nation, Bangladesh has delivered a number of main males’s and ladies’s continental and world occasions prior to now. This 12 months, we’re completely satisfied to welcome the Asian Cricket Council’s Ladies’s Asia Cup to our nation for the primary time, particularly to Sylhet, which was house to matches in the course of the 2014 males’s and ladies’s T20 World Cups, too,” Chowdhury added.
