The event will see 4 groups every within the males’s and girls’s occasions – India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh– immediately taking part in from the final eight stage based mostly on their ICC T20I rankings as of June 1.
All matches will maintain official T20I standing.
Nevertheless, Harmanpreet faces a hurdle as she acquired a two-match ban attributable to a public outburst after a current ODI sport in opposition to Bangladesh. Consequently, she might be ineligible to take part within the quarter-final, which is prone to contain an affiliate nation, and the next semi-final in opposition to a full member nation.
In the meantime, the boys’s workforce led by Ruturaj Gaikwad has secured a direct entry into the quarter-final, owing to their ICC T20 rating on June 1. The lads’s occasion will characteristic 18 groups, whereas the ladies’s occasion will see participation from 14 outfits.
The ladies’s competitors is ready to kick off on September 19 and culminate with the gold and bronze medal matches on September 26. In distinction, the boys’s occasion will start on September 28, with the ultimate scheduled for October 7, simply two days after the boys’s ICC 50-over World Cup begins in Ahmedabad.
Ought to the Indian males’s workforce qualify for the ultimate, they may face a difficult back-to-back schedule – taking part in on October 5 (quarter-final), October 6 (semi-final), and October 7 (remaining).
The quarter-final for the boys’s workforce is prone to be in opposition to a second-string Afghanistan or Bangladesh workforce, as their first groups might be occupied in India in the course of the World Cup. Nevertheless, it stays unsure whether or not the boys’s workforce will arrive on the Video games Village earlier than the opening ceremony, contemplating they’ve practically two weeks earlier than their marketing campaign commences.
Moreover, the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) has but to verify whether or not the cricket groups will keep within the Video games Village or go for lodging at a five-star facility within the metropolis.
A complete of 32 matches will happen in the course of the Hangzhou Video games, that includes 14 video games within the girls’s occasion and 18 within the males’s occasion. If the Indian males’s workforce qualifies for the ultimate, they may play afternoon video games at 12 midday IST (2:30 pm native time), including to the problem of consecutive high-profile matches.
(With inputs from PTI)
