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Women's T20 competition to be held from July 29 to August 7 at Birmingham CWG

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The women's T20 competition at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games will be held between July 29 to August 7 at Edgbaston, the organisers said on Tuesday. 

"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 official website said. "The Birmingham 2022 competition schedule features more medal events for women than men for the first time in Commonwealth Games history, as well as a fully integrated para-sport programme."

This would be the second instance when cricket will feature in the Commonwealth Games and the first for the women’s game. The last time cricket was a part of the Commonwealth games was back in 1998 in Kuala Lumpur. The competition saw 50-over format being played during the course. 

Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, hosts England, and a country from the Caribbean islands will be taking part in the competition. The teams apart from England made the qualification on the basis of their ICC rankings as on April 1, 2021. 

The eighth spot in the tournament will be decided after the conclusion of a qualifying event that would be held in January next year. The winners of this will march ahead. The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to take place from July 28 to August 8 next year.

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