ICC grants Netherlands, PNG, Scotland, Thailand and USA granted women’s ODI status

The Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, Scotland, Thailand and the USA have been given girls’s ODI standing, the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) introduced on Thursday.  

Their standing has been granted with instant impact as a part of the revamped Ladies’s Cricket World Cup qualification pathway.

Other than handing the 5 nations a standing, the ICC additionally introduced the third version of the ICC Ladies’s Championship. The occasion will kick begin with Sri Lanka visiting Pakistan from June 1. 

“Growing the variety of groups within the ICC Ladies’s Championship and awarding ODI standing to 5 extra groups will assist us to speed up the expansion of the ladies’s sport. Extra groups enjoying extra usually creates a extra aggressive setting as we noticed on the latest ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand,” mentioned ICC Chief Government Geoff Allardice in a press release.

The IWC has now been expanded to 10 groups from eight as a part of cricket’s governing physique making a dedication to speed up the expansion of the ladies’s sport. Bangladesh and Eire will make their debuts within the competitors, which offers a direct qualification pathway to the 2025 ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup.

“The context that the IWC brings is so essential and ensures followers all over the world can take pleasure in significant and aggressive cricket all year long. I want all of the groups within the ICC Ladies’s Championship the easiest on this subsequent version and good luck to Netherlands, PNG, Scotland, Thailand and the USA on what I hope will likely be an excellent alternative to develop in 50 over cricket of their nations,” added Allardice.

The ten groups will play eight three-match sequence every in the course of the 2022-25 cycle, comprising 4 house sequence and 4 away sequence which have been mutually agreed by the collaborating groups, offering a daily calendar of top-quality aggressive cricket for followers all over the world to take pleasure in in between ICC occasions.

For instance, India will play ODI sequence towards New Zealand, South Africa, Eire and West Indies at house whereas they are going to journey to England, Australia, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in the identical interval to play away 50-over sequence.

The hosts plus the 5 prime positioned groups, will get direct entry to the 2025 Ladies’s Cricket World Cup. The remaining two groups will likely be recognized by means of a world qualifier comprising six groups – the remaining 4 groups from the IWC plus two others who will likely be chosen in line with the Ladies’s ODI Crew Rankings.

Meg Lanning, who led Australia to victories within the earlier two editions of the ICC Ladies’s Championship, welcomed Bangladesh and Eire to the competitors.

“The third version of the Championship goes to be thrilling. As we noticed at the newest ODI World Cup, there are a variety of countries actually beginning to emerge so we will should be on the prime of our sport. We pleasure ourselves on discovering methods to maintain evolving and it will be extra essential than ever over the following interval.”

“To have Bangladesh and Eire concerned, is not going to solely be nice for us to have the prospect to play extra cricket towards them, but in addition to reveal them to extra cricket towards the highest nations. We wish to see the ladies’s sport as robust as potential and creating the following tier of countries is a giant a part of that.”

England captain Heather Knight hopes the IWC will proceed to develop within the coming years. “We’re actually excited in regards to the new cycle of the ICC Ladies’s Championship. Enjoying everybody, house and away, in significant fixtures offers a superb construction to the ladies’s worldwide sport and it is nice to get again to our regular schedule after COVID-19. Our goal will likely be to win as many video games as potential and to be in one of the best place that we may be going into the ICC Ladies’s World Cup 2025.”

“As well as, we wish to see the ladies’s sport in England and Wales, and the ladies’s sport internationally, proceed its journey of development throughout that interval. We wish to win on the pitch and proceed to see development off the pitch. The ICC Ladies’s Championship is important for ladies’s cricket and the choice to extend it to 10 groups is the correct one. Hopefully, sooner or later, we’ll see the championship proceed to develop.”

(Inputs IANS)