The Barbados girls’s facet will take part in subsequent yr’s Commonwealth Games because the “representative team” of the West Indies, Cricket West Indies (CWI) has introduced.
The announcement got here after the CWI’s board of administrators determined to postpone the T20 Blaze and the Women’s Super50 Cup, which was to be West Indies’ qualifying event for the CWG, till subsequent yr.
“Following the postponement, the Barbados girls’s crew would be the consultant crew of the West Indies because of their victory within the 2020 CWI T20 Blaze event and in accordance with the Commonwealth Games Association event guidelines agreed by the International Cricket Council (ICC). CWI stated in an announcement.
Cricket is returning to the CWG for the primary time since 1998, with the introduction of girls’s cricket within the 2022 Birmingham version.
The choice to postpone the regional girls’s tournaments was taken following the dates of the ODI and T20Is for the West Indies vs South Africa collection from 31 August to 19 September.
The ongoing logistical challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the necessity to host a number of groups in a single nation, had been additionally taken into consideration.
“…we are forced to make the decision to postpone the Women’s T20 Blaze and the Women’s CG Insurance Super 50 Cup for this year,” stated CWI CEO Johnny Grave.
“We want to congratulate the Barbados girls’s crew for being named to symbolize the West Indies on the Commonwealth Games 2022.
“We want all of them the perfect as they compete for the gold medal, and we all know they are going to proceed to do West Indies proud.
Grave stated the board has invested in a variety of excessive efficiency camps and worldwide applications for ladies.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
