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The 2022 Organizing Committee of the Commonwealth of Birmingham announced on Tuesday that the debut women’s T20 competition will be held from July 29 to August 7 and all matches will be played at Edgbaston for 10 days.
Although the group competitions for the eight team competitions will be held until August 4, the semi-finals will be played on August 6. The final and bronze medal playoffs will be held on August 7th.
Cricket is only played for the second time ever, while women’s cricket appears in the CWG for the first time in 22 editions.
The only time cricket was part of a four-year event was in Kuala Lumpur (1998), when the men’s ODI competition was held, which South Africa won.
According to the format, the six qualifiers associated with the home team in England in the eight-team Twenty20 competition are Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and the West Indies country. These countries have secured their qualifications based on their ranking in the ICC Women’s T20I Team Rankings on April 1, 2021.
Under the qualifying process, the winner of the “designated qualifying events” will determine which Caribbean country is allowed to participate, as the athletes represent their own countries and not the West Indies, as they would do at ICC events.
The eighth and final participating team will be decided in a qualifying tournament held before January 31 next year. Details will be announced later.
“11 days of swimming and diving, 8 days of cricket, 8 days of gymnastics and 7 days of athletics, including a marathon, in the summer of 2022 are expected for great home games,” the Games website said on Tuesday.
“The Birmingham 2022 competition program includes more medal events for women than men for the first time in the history of Commonwealth games, as well as a fully integrated para-sports program,” it added.
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