The Barbados women’s team will represent the West Indies in next year’s Commonwealth Games, Cricket West Indies (CWI) has announced. The CWI made the announcement after the T20 Blaze and Women’s Super50 Cup were postponed.
“Following the postponement, the Barbados Women’s team will be the representative team from the West Indies as a result of their victory in the 2020 CWI T20 Blaze tournament and in line with Commonwealth Games Association Tournament rules agreed by the International Cricket Council (ICC),” CWI said in a statement.
“…we have been forced to take the decision to postpone the Women’s T20 Blaze and Women’s CG Insurance Super50 Cup for this year,” CWI CEO Johnny Grave said.
“We wish them all the very best as they compete for the gold medal, and we know they will continue to do West Indies proud.”
The game will return to CWG after it was played in 1998 while the women’s cricket will be introduced for the first time in the 2022 Birmingham edition.
The decision of the women’s tournament being postponed was taken after the ODI and T20I fixtures between West Indies and South Africa were finalised which will take place from August 31 to September 19.