Typhoon Fiona reasons postponement of first West Indies-New Zealand ladies’s ODI

A tropical hurricane, Typhoon Fiona, has brought about the primary ladies’s ODI between West Indies and New Zealand, which used to be to be performed in Antigua on Friday, to be postponed.

Cricket West Indies introduced that the second one ODI, scheduled for September 18, will now turn out to be the primary ODI of the collection, with a date for the postponed recreation but to be finalised.

The hurricane has already brought about intensive showers in Antigua, the venue for all 3 ODIs and 5 T20Is at the excursion, and is most likely to succeed in its top over Antigua and the Leeward Islands on Friday. It will additionally put the second one ODI in peril if it reasons residual harm at the island.

Each side have indicated their intentions to play the excursion in its entirety. Whilst the hurricane will convey heavy winds and lightning to Antigua and the Leeward Islands, it isn’t believed to pose any protection possibility to the gamers.

The ODI collection counts in opposition to the Girls’s Championship and eventual qualification for the 2025 ODI Global Cup, whilst the T20I collection serves as preparation for the 2023 T20 Global Cup in February. Neither facet has performed a recreation within the ladies’s ODI Championship cycle to this point.