Meg Lanning, Australia's women's team captain, is hoping the upcoming Commonwealth Games, to be played in Birmingham, will provide a platform for cricket to eventually be played at the Olympics. Lanning believes cricket in the Olympics would help the sport to grow more by reaching a new audience.

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.

BCCI have reportedly agreed with CoA to work on a six-month trial with the National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) after the International Cricket Council’s repeated insistence. With Sourav Ganguly leaving CAC to take up mentor’s role in Delhi Capitals’ camp, CoA could ask Justice DK Jain for the role.

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.