The match will see 4 groups every within the males’s and girls’s occasions – India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh- straight taking part in from the final eight stage primarily based on their ICC T20I rankings as of June 1.
All matches will maintain official T20I standing.
However, Harmanpreet faces a hurdle as she obtained a two-match ban resulting from a public outburst after a latest ODI sport in opposition to Bangladesh. Consequently, she will likely be ineligible to take part within the quarter-final, which is more likely to contain an affiliate nation, and the following semi-final in opposition to a full member nation.
Meanwhile, 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 males’s occasion will characteristic 18 groups, whereas the ladies’s occasion will see participation from 14 outfits.
The girls’s competitors is about 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 begin 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.
Should the Indian males’s workforce qualify for the ultimate, they’ll face a difficult back-to-back schedule – taking part in on October 5 (quarter-final), October 6 (semi-final), and October 7 (ultimate).
The quarter-final for the boys’s workforce is more likely to be in opposition to a second-string Afghanistan or Bangladesh workforce, as their first groups will likely be occupied in India throughout the World Cup. However, it stays unsure whether or not the boys’s workforce will arrive on the Games Village earlier than the opening ceremony, contemplating they’ve practically two weeks earlier than their marketing campaign commences.
Additionally, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has but to substantiate whether or not the cricket groups will keep within the Games Village or go for lodging at a five-star facility within the metropolis.
A complete of 32 matches will happen throughout the Hangzhou 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’ll 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)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com