Cricket’s world governing body has submitted a bid for women’s Twenty20 cricket to be included at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.<\/p>\n
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will make its presentation – in partnership with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) – to an assessment panel early next month.<\/p>\n
“We would like cricket to lead the way in the Commonwealth in inspiring more young girls to take up sport regardless of their background or culture,”\u00a0said ICC chief executive David Richardson.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n Cricket has been part of the Commonwealth Games once before – South Africa winning a men’s 50-overs-a-side competition in Kuala Lumpur in 1998.<\/p>\n Richardson said Birmingham was the “perfect place” for it to return as “23% of the city’s residents have links to cricket-playing nations outside the United Kingdom”.<\/p>\n “If cricket were to be staged in these Games, we know every team competing would be guaranteed ‘home’ support,” he said. “There’s a ready-made audience and ready-made infrastructure in the local vicinity.”<\/p>\n England were beaten by Australia in the final of the recent Women’s World T20 in the West Indies, and the ECB’s women’s cricket boss\u00a0Clare Connor believes<\/a>\u00a0the game is “on the eve of something special”.<\/p>\n England captain Heather Knight said: “It’s hugely exciting that women’s cricket is bidding to become part of the Commonwealth Games.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cricket’s world governing body has submitted a bid for women’s Twenty20 cricket to be included at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. 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