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THE Zimbabwe women’s cricket team will play its first official one-day international series when it hosts Ireland for four ODIs next month, as the two sides step up their preparations for the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier.
This will be the first official ODI series for Zimbabwe Women since they were granted ODI status by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in April this year.
The ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup Global Qualifier will be held in Zimbabwe from November 21 to December 5 in Harare.
The qualifiers were originally meant to be hosted by Sri Lanka in July 2020, but the Covid-19 pandemic forced a postponement of the event as well as the main World Cup event in New Zealand.
The 10-team tournament, whose schedule will be announced in due course, decides three qualifiers for the 2022 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup to be held in New Zealand from March 4 to April 3, joining five teams which have already qualified through the ICC Women’s Championship, Australia, England, India, South Africa and New Zealand.
Schedule
1st ODI October 5, 2nd ODI October 7, 3rd ODI October 9, 4th ODI October 11
Bongani Ndlovu
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