ICC inspects National Stadium ahead 2018 World Cup
A team from the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday conducted the inspection of the National Stadium, Providence ahead of the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 to be staged in November 2018.
The team from the sport’s world governing body will inspect 11 venues in eight countries in 12 days and Guyana was their fourth stop.
Simon Jelowitz, ICC’s Senior Event Operations Manager, who is leading the delegation told Guyana Times Sport that they were impressed in some regards with the state of Providence which last hosted a World Cup in 2010.
“We are just semi-way through the tour and Cricket West Indies will make a recommendation to ICC on which venues they should use based on the objective we share.”
Mahinder Ghainshaim of the Guyana National Stadium (backing camera), facilitates Guyana Cricket Board’s Territorial Development Officer Colin Stuart and Simon Jelowitz (centre) during the inspection of the operations section of the stadium
“The stadium has a great history here and so far what we have seen we have had a great welcome and we are taking our time to have a look at all facilities and will formulate a report with recommendation which we will share with Cricket West Indies and it will be up to them to ask ICC to ratify the recommendations.”
The team of venue inspectors from the International Cricket Council (ICC) were busy with their respective tasks on Friday at Providence
The Providence stadium which was built for the hosting of matches in the 2007 World Cup, has three major stands and a grass mound that can accommodate 4,000 people, giving an overall capacity of around 15,000.
The ICC Women’s World Twenty20 2018 will take place on the back of the ground-breaking ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 in the United Kingdom.”
Eight sides currently participating in the ICC Women’s Championship have qualified directly for the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 2018.
The remaining two sides will progress from the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifier 2018, which will be staged next June in the Netherlands. Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, Scotland, Uganda and two Asia qualifiers will vie for the two available places.
Windies Women will defend title next year, after Stafanie Taylor’s side won the 2016 edition in April last year in the Indian city of Kolkata, where they beat Australia in the Final. (Akeem Greene)
