Cricket latest
Wasim Khan, ICC General Manager-Cricket, mentions that ladies’s cricket’s long-lasting aspirations consist of “belonging to the Olympic Games”
Australia won the gold medal in the inaugural Commonwealth Games – Getty Images
The females’s T20 cricket competitors will include in the Commonwealth Games 2026 to be kept in Australia. It was amongst the 20 sports consisted of in the next model to be played in Victoria, ICC stated in a release. It follows the success of ladies’s cricket, that made its launching in the Birmingham edition previously this year.
” We are happy to understand that ladies’s cricket will become part of the Commonwealth Games in Victoria,” Wasim Khan, ICC General Manager – Cricket, stated. “It will be another substantial landmark for the sport after its substantial success recently, consisting of Birmingham. The ongoing development and upward trajectory of both the females’s video game and T20 cricket fits completely with our long-lasting aspirations that consist of belonging to the Olympic Games.
” Women’s cricket has actually seen a sharp upward curve with increasing requirements and a quickly increasing fan base. The sight of 86,174 fans in Melbourne for the last of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 still lives strong in our memories therefore we simply can’t await another chance to display the females’s video game, this time in Victoria in 2026.”
Hosts Australia are the protecting champs having actually won the gold medal thanks to their nine-run win over India at Edgbaston in August. New Zealand ended up with bronze medal, having actually beat England in the choosing contest.
The Commonwealth Games in 2026 will range from March 17 to 29 in 4 local centers of Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong and Gippsland.
The 2022 edition was the very first time that females’s cricket along with the T20 format got included in the Commonwealth Games, following guys’s 50- over cricket in the competition in Kuala Lumpur.