ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) today announced that the Barbados Women’s team will participate in the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, England. The event will be held from July 28 to August 8 and women’s cricket tournament will be staged for the first time at Edgbaston.

This follows the CWI Board of Directors decision, taken on Friday, July 30 to postpone the 2021 T20 Blaze tournament and the 2021 Women’s CG Insurance Super50 Cup until 2022. The 2021 CWI T20 Blaze competition was to be the  West Indies qualifying tournament for the Commonwealth Games. 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).

The decision to postpone regional Women’s cricket tournaments was taken with the news of the recently announced Women’s international CG Insurance ODI and T20 fixtures between West Indies and South Africa – August 31 to September 19 – and the ongoing logistical challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic requiring multiple teams to be hosted in one country. This has made it very challenging to find a suitable scheduling window.

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