Women’s cricket to make its debut in 2022 Commonwealth Games with India taking over Australia on July 29

India will face Australia within the opening match when girls’s cricket makes its debut on the 2022 Commonwealth Games on July 29 whereas the ultimate shall be performed on August 7, the occasion organisers introduced on Friday.

Women’s cricket is making its debut on the Commonwealth Games with the T20 format. The final time cricket was performed within the multi-sporting showpiece was within the 1998 version in Kuala Lumpur.“The women’s cricket T20 competition will be held at the Edgbaston Stadium from the 29 July, with the bronze and gold medal matches taking place on 7 August,” mentioned the ECB in an announcement.The first match on the schedule will see Australia tackle India within the early session on July 29 adopted by Pakistan enjoying Barbados, who had been lately confirmed because the workforce from the West Indies that may participate within the competitors.Other highlights on the schedule embody India towards Pakistan on July 31. Australia will even tackle Pakistan on August 3.Hosts England shall be in motion for the primary time on July 30, when they’ll tackle the winner of a qualifying event which is because of happen at first of 2022.They will then play South Africa within the early session on August 2, adopted by a 3rd match towards New Zealand within the night session on August 4.Seven out of eight qualifiers for the T20 competitors had been introduced again in April with the ultimate workforce set to be finalised on the finish of January 2022.ICC Acting Chief Executive Geoff Allardice mentioned: “We have seen tremendous growth of the women’s game over the past few years and the Commonwealth Games will undoubtedly be another major moment on that journey.“Today’s announcement of the match schedule gives fans lots to look forward to, not least with the opening game between ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 finalists Australia and India and we know that Edgbaston will provide a great stage for the competition.”The schedule for netball was additionally introduced on Friday.The announcement of the match schedules for the 2 workforce sports activities comes just some weeks earlier than tickets for Birmingham 2022 are anticipated to go on common sale.Matt Kidson, Director of Sport for Birmingham 2022, mentioned: “Not surprisingly we have already sold thousands of tickets for both the netball and cricket T20 sessions through our ticket ballots“but we know that some fans have been waiting to find out the details of the match schedules before choosing which sessions they want to attend, so we’re expecting these sports to sell quickly, when ticket sales go live.”