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Women’s T20 Cricket Nominated For<br />
Commonwealth Games 2022 Inclusion!<br />
WICKETS<br />
Women’s Twenty20 cricket is on course to be among<br />
three additional sports featuring at the Birmingham<br />
2022 Commonwealth Games.<br />
Organisers have also proposed including beach volleyball<br />
and Para-table tennis on the programme.<br />
All three sports have been approved by the executive<br />
board of the Commonwealth Games Federation<br />
(CGF).<br />
Shooting and archery have missed out, having also<br />
applied to be added to the event.<br />
Final confirmation on the three recommended sports<br />
depends on a vote by the CGF’s 71 member associations,<br />
with an announcement expected in the next six<br />
weeks.<br />
The cricket competition is the result of a joint bid by<br />
the the sport’s world governing body, the International<br />
Cricket Council (ICC), and the England and Wales<br />
Cricket Board (ECB). It would be played at Edgbaston<br />
and feature eight teams.<br />
The sport’s only previous inclusion in the Commonwealth<br />
Games came in 1998, when South Africa won<br />
a men’s 50-overs-a-side competition in Kuala Lumpur.<br />
“We are absolutely delighted that women’s cricket has<br />
been nominated for inclusion in Birmingham 2022 - it<br />
would be a real honour to become part of the Commonwealth<br />
Games family,” said ICC chief executive<br />
Manu Sawhney said.<br />
His predecessor, David Richardson, has previously<br />
said Birmingham was the “perfect place” for it to re-<br />
turn as “23% of the city’s residents have links to cricket-playing<br />
nations outside the United Kingdom”.<br />
If cricket’s inclusion is confirmed, it would be another<br />
major boost to the sport in the UK after England<br />
won the Women’s World Cup in 2017.<br />
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