The Barbados ladies’s aspect will take part in subsequent 12 months’s Commonwealth Games as West Indies’ “representative team”, Cricket West Indies (CWI) has introduced.
The announcement got here after the CWI Board of Directors determined to postpone the T20 Blaze and Women’s Super50 Cup, which was to be the West Indies qualifying event for the CWG, till subsequent 12 months.
“Following the postponement, the Barbados Women’s team will be the representative team from the West Indies as a result of their victory in the 2020 CWI T20 Blaze tournament and in line with Commonwealth Games Association Tournament rules agreed by the International Cricket Council (ICC),” CWI mentioned in a press release.
Cricket will likely be making a return to the CWG for the primary time since 1998 with ladies’s cricket set to be launched within the 2022 Birmingham version.
The resolution to postpone the regional ladies’s tournaments was taken after ODI and T20I dates for the West Indies vs South Africa sequence, from August 31 to September 19, was finalised.
The ongoing logistical challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic requiring a number of groups to be hosted in a single nation was additionally taken under consideration.
“…we have been forced to take the decision to postpone the Women’s T20 Blaze and Women’s CG Insurance Super50 Cup for this year,” CWI CEO Johnny Grave mentioned.
“We need to congratulate the Barbados Women’s workforce for being named to signify the West Indies within the Commonwealth Games 2022.
“We want all of them the easiest as they compete for the gold medal, and we all know they’ll proceed to do West Indies proud.
Grave mentioned the board has invested in a number of excessive efficiency camps and worldwide fixtures for girls.
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