The International Cricket Council have chalked out pathways for qualification for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in which women’s cricket is taking part for the first time. The eight-team tournament is scheduled to be played from 28 July to 8 August 2020 at the Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham.

Women’s cricket has been given a major boost after the T20 format of the game was declared as one of the events to be held at the 2022 Commonwealth games in Birmingham, England. Eight teams will be competing for the gold medal at Edgbaston and the move was lauded by both the ICC and the ECB.

The MCC World Cricket Committee has advocated for the inclusion of Women’s T20 competition in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, which would be held in Birmingham. The last time when Cricket was included in the CWG was in 1998, when South African had won it in a 50-over format in Kuala Lumpur.

According to a TOI report, WADA has asked ICC to resolve the issues between BCCI and India’s NADA by May this year or the global cricket body will be declared ‘non-compliant’. BCCI has been reluctant to come under the purview of NADA citing some goof-ups by the agency to the ICC.