The ICC on Saturday (November 27) called off an ongoing qualifier for next year’s Girls folks’s ODI World Cup in Harare following the emergence of a brand fresh COVID-19 variant in the African scrape, paving the diagram for Pakistan, West Indies and Bangladesh to invent the gash on the root of rankings.
High-tail restrictions had been launched from hundreds of African countries after detection of the fresh variant in South Africa stoked fears around the sphere.
JUST | We feel sorry about to negate the @ICC has called off the @ICC Girls folks’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2021 in Harare due to the the imposition of trot restrictions on southern African countries, including , following the breakout of a brand fresh COVID-19 variant in southern Africa pic.twitter.com/AZJGYQ2eAq
— Zimbabwe Cricket (@ZimCricketv) November 27, 2021
The choice became as soon as taken all thru the preliminary league half of the 9-team match, which became as soon as to think the final three qualifiers for the World Cup 2022, to be played in Unique Zealand, besides 2 additional teams for the subsequent cycle of the ICC Girls folks’s Championship.
“The qualifiers will now be made up our minds in step with the team rankings as detailed in the match playing prerequisites. Which implies that reality, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the West Indies will now progress to the tournament in Unique Zealand,” talked about the ICC in an announcement.
Play in two of the three suits scheduled for Saturday (November 27) Zimbabwe vs Pakistan and USA vs Thailand, started as scheduled however the third fixture of the day, between the West Indies and Sri Lanka, may maybe no longer be staged as a member of the Sri Lanka team support group tested sure for COVID-19.
“We are incredibly dissatisfied to want to slay the remainder of this tournament however with trot restrictions from hundreds of African countries being imposed at such short peep there became as soon as a valuable risk that teams would be unable to return home,” ICC Head of Events Chris Tetley talked about.
“We possess explored hundreds of options to enable us to entire the tournament however it’s no longer feasible and we are able to flit the teams out of Zimbabwe as soon as imaginable.” he added.
The teams who possess qualified for the World Cup are Australia, England, India, South Africa, Unique Zealand (hosts), Pakistan, West Indies and Bangladesh. The mega-tournament will be held in Unique Zealand from March 4 to April 3.
“The number of teams in the third cycle of the ICC Girls folks’s Championship (from 2022-2025) has been increased from eight to 10, and these teams will be Australia, England, India, South Africa, Unique Zealand, Pakistan, West Indies, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Eire,” the statement added.
