The Commonwealth Video games (CWG) 2022 are scheduled to begin tomorrow (Friday) in Birmingham and followers might be glued to their screens for the subsequent 11 days. This 12 months, followers have extra causes to cheer as cricket is again within the CWG after 24 years of hole. Males’s cricket was a part of the 1998 CWG in Kuala Lumpur the place South Africa gained the Gold after beating Australia within the finals. That is the primary time ladies’s cricket is included in any multi-sport event and followers are delighted.
The 2022 CWG event might be performed within the T20I format solely and eight nationwide groups have certified. All of the matches are scheduled to happen at Edgbaston Cricket Floor in Birmingham, with Australia and India clashing within the opening fixture on July 29. England certified for the event by default as they’re the hosts whereas Australia, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and Pakistan certified for the event based mostly on their ICC T20I rankings. Sri Lanka reached the event after successful the qualifiers by beating Bangladesh within the finals in January this 12 months to make it seven groups event.
However how did Barbados Ladies and never West Indies are taking part in within the 2022 Commonwealth Video games?
West Indies Ladies’s group ranked within the prime six in ICC T20I Ladies’s chart and therefore certified instantly however they aren’t part of the 2022 CWG event. The CWG competitors is for the Commonwealth nations, and there are six Caribbean nations which might be a part of the Commonwealth Video games Affiliation. West Indies as a nation can’t be a part of the CWG event because it’s a multi-sport competitors and all Caribbean nations are a part of the Commonwealth group.
So the regional T20 event was scheduled in 2020 and 2021 to resolve the qualifier group amongst six nations Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and two extra groups from the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands. However as a result of Covid-19 pandemic, the event was postponed on each event and Barbados Ladies, who had gained T20 Blaze within the earlier version, have been declared the qualifier group for the 2022 CWG. Star West Indies all-rounder Hayley Matthews and Deandra Dottin might be main Barbados Ladies who face Pakistan Ladies of their opening conflict on Friday, July 29.
