India qualifies for the 2021 Women's World Cup
The Indian Women's Team, which finished runners-up earlier this year at the ICC Women's T20 World Cup, has now qualified for the 2021 Women's ODI World Cup.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday (15 April) announced that India, New Zealand, Australia, England, and South Africa have qualified for the forthcoming World Cup in 2021.
“Technical Committee (TC) has decided that teams will share points in all three series in the ICC Women’s Championship that did not take place during the competition window,” ICC said in the announcement.
The ICC release further said, “Australia (37 points), England (29), South Africa (25) and now India (23) have qualified by virtue of being the top four. Pakistan (19), New Zealand (17), West Indies (13) and Sri Lanka (5) complete the table.”
“The 10 teams vying for the three remaining places in the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2021 will be the hosts, Sri Lanka, along with Pakistan and West Indies from the ICC Women's Championship, the two other teams with ODI status, Bangladesh and Ireland, and the winners of the five regional qualifiers - Thailand (Asia), Zimbabwe (Africa), Papua New Guinea (East Asia Pacific), United States of America (Americas) and Netherlands (Europe),” the ICC release said.
Given the current situation owing to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the ICC might re-schedule the qualifiers which are to be played in July this year if things don’t go back to normal.
"The ICC Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier is scheduled to be played from 3-19 July in Sri Lanka, this is subject to review due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” the release added.
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