West Indies girls face tough opening assignments WT20

West Indies Ladies have been handed two tough opening fixtures of their ICC Twenty20 World Cup marketing campaign subsequent February.

The Caribbean aspect, the 2016 champions, face England Ladies of their first recreation at Boland Park in Paarl on February 11 earlier than touring to Newland in Cape City 4 days later for a conflict with powerhouses India Ladies.

Put in in Group B of the February 10-26 event, West Indies will spherical out the group stage with video games towards minnows Eire in Cape City on February 17 and towards Pakistan on February 19 in Paarl.

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Hosts nation South Africa will tackle Sri Lanka within the curtain-raiser at Newlands on February 10, with reigning champions Australia going through New Zealand within the second match of the doubleheader at Boland Park a day later.

“We’re thrilled to be asserting the match schedule for the subsequent ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup as we glance to construct on the success of Australia 2020 and host a uniquely African celebration of cricket,” ICC Chief Govt, Geoff Allardice mentioned after the fixtures have been formally introduced Monday.

“As a key strategic precedence for the game, girls’s cricket continues to construct momentum and interact extra followers than ever earlier than.

“With T20 as the expansion automobile for cricket we’re assured that this occasion and the inaugural Below-19 Ladies’s T20 World Cup previous the senior occasion will go away a long-lasting legacy to develop women and girls’s cricket around the globe.”

West Indies girls is one in all 10 groups that can do battle within the competitors in South Africa, the second in three years following the Australia showpiece in 2020. The event will see 23 matches being performed throughout Cape City, Paarl, and Gqeberha over 15 days

Group A will comprise Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, South Africa and Sri Lanka.

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