: Womens T20, Basketball 33 make their debut at CWG 2022 #IndiaNEWS #Sports By Avinash KumarNew Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Womens Cricket, Basketball 33, Wheelchair Basketball 33 and Para Table Tennis are

Womens T20, Basketball 33 make their debut at CWG 2022 #IndiaNEWS #Sports
By Avinash KumarNew Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Womens Cricket, Basketball 33, Wheelchair Basketball 33 and Para Table Tennis are among the new sports, which have been added to the 2022 edition of Commonwealth Games (CWG) and will making their debut at the highly anticipated event, scheduled to take place in Birmingham between July 28 and August 8.
A total of 72 nations are participating in the upcoming CWG. This will be the third time England will be hosting the prestigious event following the London 1934 and Manchester 2002 Games.
In every edition of CWG, organizers and the committee decide about removing and adding a few sports. This year the Birmingham 2022 organisers decided to drop archery and shooting and have instead included a few new games.
IANS takes a look at the newly included events in Commonwealth Games 2022.
Basketball 33:
Making its CWG debut, this format of the sport is up for some fast paced action and the event will be held at the Smithfield site. A 55 version of the game was earlier included twice at the Games, in Melbourne 2006 and Gold Coast 2018.
This time, there will be a total of eight Commonwealth nations, who will be taking part in this 33 event- the host, top nation in the FIBA 33 Federation Rankings from each of the six Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) regions and the highest-ranked nation not already qualified.
Only half a court and one hoop will be used for both teams with just 12 seconds on the shot clock in this event instead of the 24 in full court basketball. As the name suggests, every team should have three players and one substitute, while shots scored from inside the arc shaped zone are one point each and those taken from behind the arc put two points on the board.
The first team to touch 21 points wins. If no team reaches the score after ten minutes, the team in the lead claims victory.
Womens T20 Cricket:
Cricket will return to the Commonwealth Games for the first time in 24 years and just the second time ever. However, it will be first appearance for womens cricket and that too in the T20 format. Prior to this, a mens cricket competition was held at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, with South Africa taking gold by beating Australia in the final in the mens 50-over competition.
There are eight teams who have qualified and Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham will host the matches. England as the host qualifies automatically, along with the top six ranked teams as of April 1, 2021 as direct qualifiers. The last place was awarded to winners of the CWG Qualifier tournament, Sri Lanka.
The six direct qualifiers allocation will depend on their representation of at least four out of the six Commonwealth Games Federation regions (Africa, Americas, Asia, Caribbean, Europe and Oceania).

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