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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies Women’s National Team Manager Ann Browne-John says she welcomes the decision to delay the ICC Twenty20 Women’s World Cup (WWT20) until 2023.
Cricket World’s governing body, the ICC, said last week that the tournament will run from February 9-26, 2023.
“I saw the decision and I could understand why because with COVID-19 everything has been delayed … I think it is a good decision,” Browne-John told the Trinidad Newsday newspaper.
“I understand it and I think it will be something that the players will accept with pleasure.”
The move follows the decision in August to postpone the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2021 to 2022, meaning there would be three major events in 2022.
There will be a Women’s T20 competition at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in July of that year and WWT20 was originally scheduled to take place in November 2022.
ICC Executive Director Manu Sawhney said that since there are currently no major women’s events scheduled for 2023, the global governing body agreed to switch to WWT20 to better support player preparation and continue to push the women’s game beyond 2022. .
Browne-John said he didn’t think hosting three world tournaments in a year would have affected the level of cricket, but there are a number of benefits to the new schedule.
“Once players go to a tournament, they play the best they can, but I think staggering the tournaments will give them enough time between each tournament to recover and then move on to the next tournament,” he said.
