DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – West Indies Ladies have averted the “group of dying” for subsequent 12 months’s ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup scheduled to be held in England.
The 2016 champions will compete in Group 2 alongside defending champions New Zealand, England, Sri Lanka, and two different groups that might be decided from the World Qualifier within the match, which is able to run from June 12 to July 5.
In the meantime, Group 1 accommodates heavyweights Australia, final 12 months’s dropping finalists South Africa, India, Pakistan, and two different groups from the World Qualifier.
The ICC launched the teams and the fixtures for subsequent 12 months’s match on Wednesday, with hosts England that includes within the opening conflict towards Sri Lanka at Edgbaston on June 12.
West Indies Ladies will play their first match at some point later once they tackle New Zealand on the Hampshire Bowl.
Their subsequent match might be towards one of many qualifiers on June 18 earlier than they tackle Sri Lanka on June 21. They are going to then play their last two video games towards England and the opposite qualifier on June 24 and June 27, respectively.
The highest two groups from every group will advance to the semi-finals, set for June 30 and July 2 at The Oval, with the grand finale happening at Lord’s on July 5.
The match spans 24 days, that includes 33 matches throughout seven iconic venues – Edgbaston, Hampshire Bowl, Headingley, Previous Trafford, The Oval, Bristol County Floor and Lord’s.
Match director Beth Barrett-Wild mentioned the match would contribute to lasting change.
“The ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup supplies us with an unparalleled alternative to remodel a month of sporting excellence right into a motion that may rewrite the narrative about girls’s cricket.
“At iconic venues throughout the nation, we’ll see unbelievable, world-class athletes battling it out in out in entrance of a whole lot of hundreds of followers, who, with each ball bowled and run scored, might be contributing to lasting change,” Barrett-Wild mentioned.
“It’s our alternative to offer girls’s cricket, and ladies’s sport, the stage it deserves.”
