Pakistan VS Ireland and Scotland VS West Indies will start the qualifying competition in Lahore on April 9 in front of Women’s ODD world championship, which will be played in October this year in India. Bangladesh and Thailand, the other teams in the crisis of the six-team event, face the following day.
Apart from India, Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa and Sri Lanka have already qualified for the World Cup and the last two places will be filled with the top-two-teams from the qualifying tournament. The games are played on the new look Gaddafi Stadium and Lahore City Cricket Association grounds. The two venues as well as Aitchison College Grounds host the warm -up fixtures on April 5 and April 7, after the visitors team arrive at Lahore on April 3. The last set of games will be played on April 19th.
The schedule has officially been released today, March 14, just over three weeks from the start of the tournament, although three boards – West Indies, Ireland and Bangladesh – had put dates and venues in an unofficial capacity when announcing their season’s furniture and in the case of Bangladesh, their team to the event.