The ICC on Saturday called off the ongoing qualifiers for next year’s Women’s ODI World Cup in Harare following the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant in the African region, paving the way for Pakistan, West Indies and Bangladesh to make the cut. Happened. of ranking.
Travel restrictions have been imposed from several African countries after the new version was detected in South Africa, creating fear around the world. The ICC said the decision to hold the event was based on its concerns about how the participating teams would back out in the wake of the rise of the Omicron variant.
The decision was taken during the preliminary league stage of the nine-team tournament, which was to decide the final three qualifiers for the World Cup 2022, to be played in New Zealand, as well as two additional teams for the next ICC cycle. Women’s Championship.
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“The qualifiers will now be decided according to the team rankings as detailed in the tournament play conditions. Therefore, Bangladesh, Pakistan and West Indies will now move on to the event in New Zealand,” the ICC said in a statement.
Playing two of the three matches scheduled for Zimbabwe v Pakistan and USA v Thailand on Saturday began as scheduled, but the third match of the day between West Indies and Sri Lanka could not be played as a member of the Sri Lankan team’s support staff . Tested positive for COVID-19.
ICC Head of Events Chris said: “We are incredibly disappointed to see the remainder of this event being cancelled, but the imposition of travel bans from several African countries in such a short period of time posed a serious risk that teams would be unable to return home.” Will be.” Tetley said.
“We have explored several options to allow the event to be completed but this is not possible and we will move the teams out of Zimbabwe as soon as possible.
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The teams that qualify for the World Cup are Australia, England, India, South Africa, New Zealand (hosts), Pakistan, West Indies and Bangladesh.
The mega event will be held in New Zealand from March 4 to April 3.
“The number of teams in the third round of the ICC Women’s Championship (from 2022-2025) has been increased from eight to ten, and these teams will be Australia, England, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Pakistan, West Indies. Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Ireland,” the statement added.
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