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Commonwealth Games 2022, The women’s T20 cricket event in 2022 Commonwealth Games will be held between July 29 to August 7 at Edgbaston cricket ground, this will be the second time that cricket will feature in such a big event.
This competition will be an eight-team event and the group stage matches will be played till August 4. followed by the semi-finals which will take place on August 6 while the final, and the playoff for third place (bronze medal), will be played on August 7.
As per the report by ESPNcricinfo, the official website of the Commonwealth Games stated that “With 11 days of swimming and diving, 8 days of cricket, 8 days of gymnastics and 7 days of athletics, including the marathon, the summer of 2022 is set for a spectacular home Games,”
“The Birmingham 2022 competition schedule features more medal events for women than men for the first time in the history of Commonwealth Games, as well as a fully integrated para-sport programme,” it added.
This is only the second time that cricket as a sport will be played in the Commonwealth Games, As Earlier, the men’s 50-over competition was part of the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur in 1998. As of now, seven teams have qualified for this multi-sporting event. England as a host was the first team to qualify, while the other six teams are Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, and a nation from the Caribbean. These teams have qualified as a result of their standings in the ICC Women’s T20I Team Rankings as of April 1.
The eighth spot in the competition will be taken by the winning team of a qualifying event to be held by January 31, 2022, seven months ahead of the mega event.