When you go to the Google homepage and click on on the doodle representing the Women’s Cricket World Cup, you’ll find cricket balls transferring in your display screen from the left to the correct and to play this once more, you’ll be able to click on on the confetti popper on the backside of the web page.

Google doodle at the moment commemorated the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022, the match because it begins following delays because the world grappled with Covid-19 pandemic. With eight groups competing towards one another, the match was initially scheduled for early 2021. Finally, in March this yr after coronavirus-related journey restrictions stabilised that it turned attainable to start the sport.

Meanwhile, the six-time champion Australia once more is favored to win the Women’s Cricket World Cup which begins Friday at a watershed second within the sport, amid clamor for pay fairness and rising world publicity for the ladies’s sport. A complete win within the current Ashes sequence reveals Australia is in peak kind heading into its opening match of the match towards defending champion England on Saturday.

Host New Zealand beat Australia in a warm-up match and can meet the West Indies within the first match of the match Friday with restricted fan assist at Bay Oval in Tauranga. New Zealand is battling an Covid-19 omicron outbreak with greater than 20,000 instances a day and crowds will probably be restricted to 10% of venue capability.

The match is an eight-team round-robin involving Australia, England, New Zealand, Pakistan, West Indies, South Africa, India and Bangladesh. The 50-over matches will probably be performed at six venues which would require appreciable inside journey.

Covid-19 will loom as a relentless menace over the match however extraordinary contingency plans have been put in place to permit matches to go forward with as little disruption as attainable.

Australia received the ladies’s Twenty20 World Cup on residence soil in March 2020, beating India within the remaining in entrance of greater than 86,000 folks on the Melbourne Cricket Ground within the final main occasion staged earlier than the worldwide shutdown for the pandemic.

(With inputs from companies)