Six-time champion Australia again is favoured to win the ICC Women바카라s Cricket World Cup 2022 that begins on Friday at a watershed moment in the sport, amid clamor for pay equity and rising global exposure for the women바카라s game.
The ICC Women바카라s Cricket World Cup 2022 will start on Friday with hosts New Zealand playing West Indies in the opener.
Six-time champion Australia again is favoured to win the ICC Women바카라s Cricket World Cup 2022 that begins on Friday at a watershed moment in the sport, amid clamor for pay equity and rising global exposure for the women바카라s game.
A comprehensive win in the recent Ashes series shows Australia is in peak form heading into its opening match of the tournament against defending champion England on Saturday.
바카라I think our group is very fresh and that바카라s a good sign heading into what will be a physically and mentally challenging tournament,바카라 Australia batter Rachael Haynes said. 바카라There바카라s going to be some tough games of cricket.바카라
Host New Zealand beat Australia in a warm-up match and will meet the West Indies in the first match of the tournament Friday with limited fan support at Bay Oval in Tauranga.
New Zealand are battling COVID-19 omicron outbreak with more than 20,000 cases a day and crowds will be restricted to 10 per cent of venue capacity.
The tournament is an eight-team round-robin involving 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 considerable internal travel.
COVID-19 will loom as a constant threat over the tournament but extraordinary contingency plans have been put in place to allow matches to go ahead with as little disruption as possible. England captain Heather Knight told a news conference a tournament unaffected by the coronavirus is 바카라probably unlikely.바카라
It didn바카라t take long for Knight바카라s prediction to come true. Australian all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner will miss the first two World Cup games, including Saturday바카라s opener against England and their March 8 match with Pakistan after testing positive to COVID-19.
Under New Zealand government health guidelines, Gardner will have to isolate for 10 days. Organizers will allow matches to be rescheduled in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak but also have an extraordinary plan in an extreme scenario that would allow teams to field nine players and two substitutes drawn from their management contingents.
None of the teams has openly criticized that suggestion, though it has at least raised eyebrows and prompted some jokes. 바카라It바카라s created a few jokes among the female staff,바카라 Knight said. 바카라We바카라ve got the doctor and the manager down to have a net tomorrow.
바카라With the rules around close contacts, there바카라s a scenario where it might happen, so people are desperate to get the tournament on if something goes badly wrong with COVID. It바카라s not an ideal situation and hopefully it never happens,바카라 said Knight.
England won the title the last time the 50-over World Cup was staged in 2017, rallying after losing their opening match against India to beat the same opponent in the final. Knight believes that experience is in England바카라s favour as they attempt to defend their title.
바카라Australia are going to go in as favorites, but (the 2017 World Cup win) should give us a lot of experience of what it takes to be successful in these events,바카라 she said. 바카라Sometimes it바카라s just about getting over the line and I think that바카라s what we did so well in 2017.바카라
The eight teams at the World Cup will be competing for a prize pool of $3.5 million, an increase of 75 per cent on the previous tournament. The winner will receive $1.32 million, double the winner바카라s prize in 2017.
That바카라s compared with the $10 million which will be up for grabs in the men바카라s World Cup in 2023, including the $4 million winner바카라s purse. The increase in prize money still marks a major step forward for women바카라s cricket. Individual nations also are taking steps to improve the remuneration of female players.
바카라Those sorts of things are really important in terms of the message that it sends more broadly in the community,바카라 Australian vice-captain Haynes told Australian media.
바카라Even just last week, we saw the U.S. soccer team win their fight for pay equity in their sport, so I think there is a lot of groundswell around this and particularly governing bodies needing to make sure there is gender equity in their sport.
바카라I definitely would suspect over time we would see greater parity in prize pools and pay.바카라 Australia won the women바카라s T20 World Cup on home soil in March 2020, beating India in the final in front of more than 86,000 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the last major event staged before the global shutdown for the pandemic.