Four major women tournaments including two World Cups scheduled in 2022.
Australia Women's team captain Meg Lanning on Saturday (August 22) said she is disappointed that the ICC Women's World Cup 2021 got pushed back by a year, but she is looking forward to “massive year” 2022 as four major tournaments are scheduled in that year.
The Women's ODI World Cup 2021 was originally scheduled to be held in New Zealand in February-March next year, but it was postponed due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
The four tournaments scheduled in 2022 are rescheduled ODI World Cup, T20 World Cup, Birmingham Commonwealth Games, and Women's Ashes.
As per ESPNcricinfo, Lanning said: “No doubt we were disappointed the World Cup got pushed back by a year; we were gearing up for that as a bit of light at the end of the tunnel but at the same time we understand the decision. There's so much that goes into those things and probably a lot we don't know or understand and that's the decision the ICC has made.”
She added, “Now we're just looking towards 2022, which is going to be a massive year for us and could potentially be a couple of world tournaments in there and a Commonwealth Games. So that's something we're looking forward to and we'll get started with this series coming up and then build toward 2022.”
Noteworthy, Australia is next scheduled to take on New Zealand in three ODIs and as many T20Is in September. Cricket Australia on Friday announced the squad for the upcoming series.
Australia Women's Squad:
Meg Lanning (c), Rachael Haynes, Maitlan Brown, Erin Burns, Nicola Carey, Ashleigh Gardner, Alyssa Healy, Jess Jonassen, Delissa Kimmince, Tahlia McGrath, Sophie Molineux, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry (subject to fitness), Megan Schutt, Molly Strano, Annabel Sutherland, Georgia Wareham, Belinda Vakarewa.