ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Trop­i­cal Storm Fiona has forced Crick­et West In­dies to post­pone Fri­day’s open­ing One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al here be­tween West In­dies Women and New Zealand Women.

A trop­i­cal storm warn­ing is in ef­fect for An­tigua and sev­er­al oth­er coun­tries in the Lee­ward Is­lands, with the weath­er sys­tem ex­pect­ed to move in­to the area ear­ly Fri­day night.

Di­rec­tor of crick­et, Jim­my Adams, said play­er safe­ty at this time was crit­i­cal, adding that CWI were in dis­cus­sions with their coun­ter­parts at Crick­et New Zealand over the itin­er­ary.

“We have put play­er safe­ty at the fore­front of this de­ci­sion and will be work­ing very close­ly with New Zealand Crick­et to pro­tect all the in­ter­na­tion­al match­es via a re­vised sched­ule if pos­si­ble,” he said.

“We are very keen to get as much high-qual­i­ty com­pet­i­tive crick­et for our Women’s team as pos­si­ble, es­pe­cial­ly in this pe­ri­od lead­ing in­to next year’s Women’s T20 World Cup.”

Sun­day’s sec­ond game may al­so be af­fect­ed, with CWI set to de­cide on if it will go ahead, af­ter as­sess­ing the im­pact of the storm.

The se­ries, sched­uled to run from Sep­tem­ber 16 to Oc­to­ber 6, was set to fea­ture three ODIs and five Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­als at the Vi­vian Richards Crick­et Ground.

Both teams want to en­sure that, if pos­si­ble, the full eight-match Se­ries can be played since points won in the CG Unit­ed ODI Se­ries con­tribute to­wards the new ICC Women’s Cham­pi­onship which pro­vides a di­rect path­way to qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the ICC Women’s Crick­et World Cup in 2025. The T20 In­ter­na­tion­al (T20I) Se­ries plays a key role in both teams’ prepa­ra­tions for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in 2023. It is al­so the West In­dies Women’s first home in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et since Sep­tem­ber 2021. ​

CWI Di­rec­tor of Crick­et, Jim­my Adams said, “We have put play­er safe­ty at the fore­front of this de­ci­sion and will be work­ing very close­ly with New Zealand Crick­et to pro­tect all the in­ter­na­tion­al match­es via a re­vised sched­ule if pos­si­ble. We are very keen to get as much high-qual­i­ty com­pet­i­tive crick­et for our Women’s team as pos­si­ble, es­pe­cial­ly in this pe­ri­od lead­ing in­to next year’s Women’s T20 World Cup.”

Once the match­es are resched­uled, fans will be able to pur­chase tick­ets for any of the match­es at tick­ets.windi­e­stick­ets.com, the of­fi­cial Windies Tick­ets ser­vice pre­sent­ed by Mas­ter­card. For all match­es, adults can pur­chase gen­er­al ad­mis­sion tick­ets on­line at US$5.00, with free ad­mis­sion for chil­dren un­der the age of 16 when ac­com­pa­nied by a pay­ing adult. Se­niors ben­e­fit from half-price tick­ets. The sta­di­um tick­et of­fice will open on the day of the resched­uled 1st CG Unit­ed ODI with print­ed tick­ets avail­able for EC$15.00/US$5.00.

FULL SQUAD: Hay­ley Matthews (capt), Aaliyah Al­leyne, She­maine Camp­belle, Shamil­ia Con­nell, Afy Fletch­er, Cher­ry Ann Fras­er, Shabi­ka Gajn­abi, Jan­nil­lea Glas­gow, Shene­ta Grim­mond, Chinelle Hen­ry, Kyshona Knight, Natasha McLean, Chedean Na­tion, Kar­ish­ma Ramharack, Shak­era Sel­man, Stafanie Tay­lor and Rasha­da Williams

CG Unit­ed ODI Se­ries

Fri­day 16 Sep­tem­ber: 1st CG Unit­ed ODI, 9:30am - POST­PONED

Sun­day 18 Sep­tem­ber: 2nd CG Unit­ed ODI, 9:30am

Thurs­day 22 Sep­tem­ber: 3rd CG Unit­ed ODI, 9:30am

T20I Se­ries

Sun­day 25 Sep­tem­ber: 1st T20I, 1:30pm

Wednes­day 28 Sep­tem­ber: 2nd T20I, 1:30pm

Sat­ur­day 1 Oc­to­ber: 3rd T20I, 1:30pm

Tues­day 4 Oc­to­ber: 4th T20I, 10:00am

Thurs­day 6 Oc­to­ber: 5th T20I, 1:30pm

All match­es at Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um

(CMC)