ICC Calls Off 2021 Girls’s Cricket Global Cup Qualifier Over New COVID-19 Pressure | Cricket Information

The ICC on Saturday referred to as off an ongoing qualifier for subsequent 12 months’s Girls’s ODI Global Cup in Harare following the emergence of a brand new COVID-19 variant within the African area, paving the best way for Pakistan, West Indies and Bangladesh to make the lower at the foundation of scores. Commute restrictions had been offered from plenty of African nations after detection of the brand new variant in South Africa stoked fears world wide. The ICC stated the verdict to prevent the development used to be in keeping with its considerations about how the taking part groups would head again within the wake of Omicron variant’s upward push.

The verdict used to be taken all through the initial league segment of the nine-team event, that used to be to come to a decision the overall 3 qualifiers for the Global Cup 2022, to be performed in New Zealand, in addition to two further groups for the following cycle of the ICC Girls’s Championship.

“The qualifiers will now be made up our minds in step with the group scores as detailed within the event enjoying prerequisites. Due to this fact, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the West Indies will now development to the development in New Zealand,” stated the ICC in a remark.

Play in two of the 3 suits scheduled for Saturday – Zimbabwe v Pakistan and USA v Thailand – began as scheduled however the 3rd fixture of the day, between the West Indies and Sri Lanka, may just no longer be staged as a member of the Sri Lanka group improve workforce examined sure for COVID-19.

“We’re extremely disillusioned to must cancel the rest of this tournament however with commute restrictions from plenty of African nations being imposed at such brief realize there used to be a major possibility that groups can be not able to go back house,” ICC Head of Occasions Chris Tetley stated.

“We’ve explored plenty of choices to permit us to finish the development however it’s not possible and we will be able to fly the groups out of Zimbabwe once conceivable.

The groups who’ve certified for the Global Cup are Australia, England, India, South Africa, New Zealand (hosts), Pakistan, West Indies and Bangladesh.

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The mega tournament shall be held in New Zealand from March 4 to April 3.

“The collection of groups within the 3rd cycle of the ICC Girls’s Championship (from 2022-2025) has been larger from 8 to 10, and those groups shall be Australia, England, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Pakistan, West Indies, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Eire,” the remark added.