Dates, venues modified for Sri Lanka Women’s tour of England
Fixtures in Sri Lanka Women’s white-ball go to to England this 12 months have been rescheduled on the touring facet’s request following affirmation of the ladies’s cricket match on the Asian Games.
The ECB introduced on Tuesday that it had agreed to carry the tour ahead barely and altered some venues forward of the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, from September 23 to October 8. The Games had been pushed again from September 2022 amid Covid-19 considerations in China.
Sri Lanka and England had been on account of play three T20Is between September 2-9 adopted by three ODIs from September 14-19. The sequence will now begin on August 31 when Hove will stage the primary of the three T20Is as an alternative of an initially scheduled ODI on September 17. T20Is will now comply with at Chelmsford on September 2 and Derby on September 6.
The three-match ODI sequence will start in Durham on September 9. Durham had beforehand been scheduled to host a T20I. Northamptonshire will host the second ODI on September 12 and the third ODI will happen in Leicester on September 14. Canterbury, which was on account of maintain an ODI within the authentic schedule, will not stage a girls’s worldwide this English summer season with no matches within the Ashes sequence which precedes Sri Lanka’s go to scheduled there.
Existing ticket holders for any England Women vs Sri Lanka Women fixture can be contacted by their host venue with affirmation on how they’ve been impacted and Kent have already stated that ticket holders for the Canterbury sport would obtain a full refund.
Simon Storey, Kent Cricket CEO, stated: “We’re obviously disappointed to not be hosting a women’s international fixture at Canterbury this year after successful matches in recent summers.” Canterbury’s Spitfire Ground was the location of Harmanpreet Kaur‘s 143 not out in final 12 months’s second ODI against England, which shaped a part of India’s 3-0 sequence sweep.
Revised Schedule
Vitality Women’ s T20Is
1st T20I: England v Sri Lanka, Thursday 31 August 2023, The 1st Central County Ground, Hove
2nd T20I: England v Sri Lanka, Saturday 2 September, The Cloud County Ground, Chelmsford
third T20I: England v Sri Lanka, Wednesday 6 September, The Incora County Ground, Derby
ODI Series
1st ODI: England v Sri Lanka, Saturday 9 September, Seat Unique Riverside, Chester-le-Street
2nd ODI: England v Sri Lanka, Tuesday 12 September, The County Ground, Northampton
third ODI: England v Sri Lanka, Thursday 14 September, Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester