Barbados, Antigua, Grenada to be Venues for England T20I and Check Excursions to West Indies
Barbados will host the vast majority of matches in subsequent 12 months’s England T20 Worldwide (T20I) and Check Excursions of the West Indies, with Antigua and Grenada set to be the venues for the remaining video games in Cricket West Indies (CWI) most profitable house tour.
CWI introduced the match schedule and venues for the excursions in January and March 2022, in an announcement on Monday.
Totally vaccinated followers might be allowed at Kensington Oval in Barbados the place the first-ever five-match T20I Collection between the 2 groups might be performed, and the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua which can host a warm-up match and the primary Check. The second Check might be performed at Kensington Oval whereas the ultimate match is about for the Nationwide Cricket Stadium in Grenada.
“We’re delighted to have the ability to affirm the venues for this prolonged West Indies vs England T20I and Check Collection. The historical past and rivalry between the 2 groups create nice anticipation for followers right here within the Caribbean and world wide. These fixtures are a part of a bumper 12 months of worldwide house cricket working from January to August within the Caribbean,” CWI CEO Johnny Grave mentioned.
The T20I Collection might be performed throughout a nine-day interval from January 22 to 30, 2022, together with two consecutive weekends of back-to-back T20I cricket.
Following West Indies’ white-ball tour of India in February 2022, the regional facet will welcome England again to the Caribbean for a three-match Check Collection to compete for the newly created Richards-Botham Trophy.
CWI mentioned that the trophy honors two legends of cricket, Sir Vivian Richards and Lord Ian Botham, whose friendship and on-field heroics turned synonymous with a few of their respective groups’ best Check match moments.
“A West Indies vs England house Check Collection is the largest sporting and sports activities tourism occasion within the Caribbean. Courting again to 1930 when the primary England staff visited, these fixtures are steeped in historical past and a brand new chapter on this nice rivalry might be written, this time with the prize of the brand new Richards/Botham Trophy,” Grave mentioned.
“Celebrating these two heroes of cricket and lifelong pals with the brand new trophy, staging world-class cricket and internet hosting hundreds of England followers might be a fine addition for cricket and for the entire area. We’re all actually wanting ahead to welcoming absolutely vaccinated England followers who can’t solely get pleasure from some winter solar and Caribbean hospitality but in addition some world-class cricket with each these England Excursions, in addition to the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup that can even happen within the West Indies in January subsequent 12 months.”
The much-anticipated Check Collection will begin on the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium on March 8, 2022, earlier than shifting to the Kensington Oval for the second Check beginning on March 16. The third Check match will bowl off on March 24 in Grenada.
The Check Collection is a key fixture in each groups’ Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) World Check Championship schedule which can decide the most effective Check match cricket staff on the planet by 2023.
The Check sequence might be broadcast completely reside on BT Sport within the UK, in addition to with CWI’s unique broadcast companions in key territories world wide.
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