India amongst six groups to qualify for ladies’s T20 at 2022 Commonwealth Games

India is amongst six groups which have certified for the ladies’s T20 competitors of the 2022 Commonwealth Games as cricket returns for the second time within the multi-sporting occasion.
The six qualifiers who be part of house crew England within the eight-team T20 competitors are Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, and a rustic from the West Indies.
They have secured qualification on account of their standings within the ICC crew rankings on April 1.
“As per the qualification course of, the winner of a delegated Qualifying occasion will decide which nation from the Caribbean area will get to take part as athletes will likely be representing their particular person nations and never the West Indies as they’d at ICC occasions.

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— ICC (@ICC) April 26, 2021
“The last participating team will be decided through a Qualifying tournament to be held by 31 January 2022, details of which will be announced in due course,” stated the International Cricket Council (ICC) in a press release on Monday.
Women’s cricket options within the Games for the primary time in 22 editions and cricket for under the second time ever, the primary event being a males’s ODI competitors in Kuala Lumpur in 1998, when South Africa gained.
The Commonwealth Games cricket match will happen on the iconic Edgbaston Stadium, with tickets set to go on sale later this 12 months.
India captain Harmanpreet Kaur stated, “It’s nice to be confirmed a spot within the Commonwealth Games. We are raring to go, assured of doing properly after having made the ultimate of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia final 12 months.
“It is an awesome opportunity for both the women’s game and cricket to make a mark at the prestigious multi-discipline Games and we hope to return with loads of good memories.”
ICC Acting Chief Executive Geoff Allardice added: “We are extremely proud and excited to be a part of Birmingham 2022 and it’s a unbelievable alternative for us to proceed to develop the ladies’s sport globally.
“We are committed to maintaining the momentum that saw 86,174 fans packed into the Melbourne Cricket Ground for the final of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup last year and Birmingham 2022 gives us another global stage on which to showcase the women’s game.”