Sri Lanka complete eight-team line-up for women's T20s at Birmingham Commonwealth Games

 Sri Lanka, subsequent to dominating the ICC's Commonwealth Matches (CWG) qualifier in Kuala Lumpur last week, have finished the line-up of eight groups that will participate in the ladies' T20 contest at the Birmingham version of the games in the not so distant future. Different groups in the fight are Australia, Barbados, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and South Africa.

A joint declaration by the ICC and the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) on Tuesday affirmed that cricket had turned into the primary discipline to disclose the total line-up for CWG, following the "CGF sanction of the island country's entrance".

"It's great to have settled the personality of the groups partaking in the Commonwealth Games, and congrats to Sri Lanka for making it in the wake of playing so well in the qualifier," Geoff Allardice, the ICC's CEO, said in an assertion. "We will have eight of the best groups seeking the gold and I am certain we will get to watch an exceptionally cutthroat competition.

"The Commonwealth Games are a significant piece of the ladies' cricket schedule over the course of the following year. It is a gigantic chance for us to take cricket past the conventional fortifications and give more individuals all over the planet the opportunity to partake in the game, while the players are a lot of anticipating being essential for a multi-sport games."

The opposition will be played in an association cum-knockout arrangement, with Australia and India, who made the last of the Women's T20 World Cup in 2020, which Australia won, starting things off with the principal game, on July 29. Australia and India are in Group A, alongside Barbados and Pakistan, while Group B has the other groups. The award matches are planned for August 7.

Chamari Athapaththu, who drove Sri Lanka to the title at the qualifiers, said, "It's an extraordinary inclination to have equipped for the Commonwealth Games and we all are truly eager to be essential for the multi-sport party. I'm certain it will be an alternate encounter for us all."

Cricket has highlighted just a single time in the CWG, back in 1998 in Kuala Lumpur, when it was a 50-over occasion for men. South Africa won the gold then, at that point, with Australia winning silver and New Zealand bronze.