Google Doodle celebrated the start of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 that began at the Bay Oval Stadium in New Zealand today. The 12th edition of the Women’s Cricket World Cup began at 6:30 am on Friday. The doodle depicts six women cricketers playing the game in the presence of spectators in the background.
When you go to the Google homepage and click on the doodle representing the Women’s Cricket World Cup, you will see the cricket balls move from left to right across your screen and to play it again, you can use the confetti popper below. can click on. Page.
Google Doodle today reminded of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022, the tournament as it begins after the world has been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. With eight teams competing against each other, the tournament was originally scheduled for early 2021. Finally, in March this year it became possible to start the game after the travel restrictions related to the coronavirus were stabilized.
Meanwhile, six-time champions Australia are again in favor of winning the Women’s Cricket World Cup, starting Friday at a watershed moment in the sport, amid rising global risks to wage equity and the women’s game. A comprehensive win in the recent Ashes series shows Australia are on course in their opening match of the tournament against defending champions England on Saturday.
Hosts New Zealand beat Australia in a warm-up match and take on West Indies in the opening match of the tournament on Friday with limited fan support at the Bay Oval in Tauranga. New Zealand is battling a Covid-19 omicron outbreak with over 20,000 cases a day and crowds will be restricted to 10% of venue capacity.
The tournament is a eight-team round-robin consisting of Australia, England, New Zealand, Pakistan, West Indies, South Africa, India and Bangladesh. The 50-over matches will be played at six venues which will require a lot of internal travel.
Covid-19 will continue to threaten the tournament, but extraordinary contingency plans have been put in place to allow matches to go ahead with as little disruption as possible.
Australia won the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup on home soil in March 2020, beating India in the final in front of over 86,000 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the last major event before the global shutdown for the pandemic.
(with inputs from agencies)
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