ICC Women's World Twenty20 - West Indies 2010

[drainpipe32]

Wed May 5 
1st Match, Group A - West Indies Women v South Africa Women
Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts	

Wed May 5 
2nd Match, Group A - Australia Women v England Women
Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts	

Thu May 6
3rd Match, Group B - Pakistan Women v Sri Lanka Women
Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts	

Thu May 6
4th Match, Group B - India Women v New Zealand Women
Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts	

Fri May 7 
5th Match, Group A - Australia Women v South Africa Women
Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts	

Fri May 7
6th Match, Group A - West Indies Women v England Women
Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts	

Sat May 8
7th Match, Group B - India Women v Pakistan Women
Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts	

Sat May 8
8th Match, Group B - New Zealand Women v Sri Lanka Women
Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts	

Sun May 9
9th Match, Group A - England Women v South Africa Women
Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts	

Sun May 9 
10th Match, Group A - West Indies Women v Australia Women
Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts	

Mon May 10
11th Match, Group B - New Zealand Women v Pakistan Women
Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts	

Mon May 10
12th Match, Group B - India Women v Sri Lanka Women
Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts	

Thu May 13
1st Semi-Final - TBC v TBC
Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia	

Fri May 14
2nd Semi-Final - TBC v TBC
Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia	

Sun May 16
Final - TBC v TBC
Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados

 

[Chewie]

NZ Woman are in with a chance, just beat Australia in T20s 4 times in a row

 

[drainpipe32]

In the women's game it seems the top four teams are extremely evenly matched.

 

[khalek]

Useless tournament.

 

[pcfan123]

No way, even the women's 50 over world cup was fun to watch. I bet the Aussie seamers would fearsome tweak you up if you were at the crease. They were hitting 130s

 

[khalek]

No way, even the women's 50 over world cup was fun to watch. I bet the Aussie seamers would flip you up if you were at the crease. They were hitting 130s

The problem with playing Men's and Women's game together is that when you play the Women's matches on the same pitch before the men's game, it turns slower and the men's game mostly turn out to be low scoring which is not ideal for the tournament. The same thing happened in the last World T20, the super sixes and the finals were low scoring because Women's games were being played on the same pitches.

 

[drainpipe32]

But it means a better contest

 

[pcfan123]

Well they have as much right to play as the men. Guess we could make them play after. Not sure how accurate this is though that they played on the same pitches. In the 50 over WC they did not even play at the same stadiums.

 

[CG123]

New Zealand FTW!!!
We are flipping up the Aussie's in the T20's ATM, so should probably be favourites.

 

[drainpipe32]

And it'd be just like a one day pitch in the second dig.

 

[khalek]

Still I would prefer fresh pitches for the matches just like the first World T20. The semis and the finals turned out to be crap in the last WC, Afridi and Ajmal were impossible to go after.

I am not questioning the rights of the women, but still a lot more people follow men's cricket so ICC should make sure the men's tournament turn out to be good. I just don't like both the tournaments being played at the same time. May be a proper and separate calendar should be there for the women.

 

[pcfan123]

The whole point of playing them together is to garner more interest in the womens game.

 

[khalek]

I don't think they've been successful in doing so, you seem to be the only one finding more interest in it

Just checked the fixtures, this time around women's tournament will finish on May 8 and Men's will finish on May 16 so they seem to have sorted things out.

 

[pcfan123]

Im pretty sure womens cricket is fairly popular in England and Australia. Just because its not in the SC does not mean I am the only one watching it.

Charlotte Edwards and Clair Taylor have a decent amount of celebrity.

 

[khalek]

Not only in SC but also SA, WIl don't really care about women's cricket. I am not sure about NZ though.

Women's cricket = weak, it's nothing like WNBA or Women's football.