Andrea nelson

ICC Women's Cricket World Cup CEO Andrea Nelson on Friday said that the schedule of the tournament will be retained despite New Zealand going into a red level of lockdown due to the Omicron variant of COVID-19 causing a surge in the cases. Due to the new COVID-19 restrictions in the country, New Zealand men's and women's upcoming international matches were moved to a single venue.

"We did look at multiple contingency plans over the last 12 months as you can well imagine. But the plan is to retain the schedule as it is with the six venues. The contingency measures we're putting in place relate to kind of partaking the travel between those venues as much as possible," Andrea was quoted as saying by ESPNCricinfo.