The girls’s T20 cricket competitors will function in the Commonwealth Games 2026 to be held in Australia. It was among the many 20 sports activities included in the following iteration to be performed in Victoria, ICC mentioned in a launch. It follows the success of ladies’s cricket, which made its debut in the Birmingham version earlier this 12 months.
“Women’s cricket has witnessed a pointy upward curve with rising requirements and a quickly growing fan base. The sight of 86,174 followers in Melbourne for the ultimate of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 nonetheless lives sturdy in our recollections and so we simply cannot wait for one more alternative to showcase the ladies’s recreation, this time in Victoria in 2026.”
The Commonwealth Games in 2026 will run from March 17 to 29 in four regional hubs of Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong and Gippsland.
The 2022 version was the primary time that ladies’s cricket in addition to the T20 format received featured in the Commonwealth Games, following males’s 50-over cricket in the event in Kuala Lumpur.