Heather Knight, captain of the English women’s cricket team expressed her anger and furiousness with the ICC rules that knocked England out of the ongoing ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Australia.

“They’re the rules that everyone signed up to, You’d hope now that there has been this situation and the game tonight is potentially going to be rained off as well, so you’d hope now there is going to be a rule change and moving forward, no other team will have to experience going out of a World Cup purely because of rain,”  Knight said in the post-match conference

Knight is hopeful that the rule will be changed soon and also believes that the ongoing World Cup has a positive impact on women’s cricket as an overall.

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As per the ICC rule book, the regulations dictate that in the event of a semi-final washout, the winners of each group automatically go through to the final in Melbourne on Sunday. Cricket Australia’s appeal to add a reserve day to have a match played was also rejected by the ICC.

And as it happened to be, The first semifinal between India and England was called off due to heavy rains at the SCG  which resulted in the Indians qualifying directly for the finals as table toppers knocking out England in the process which led to the England players leaving the ground in tears.

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“It’s gutting. you put in a lot of hard work. There’s not a lot we can do about it..we’re just going to have to rue that first game and try to move on but it’s going to be a bitter pill to swallow for a few of us now. It’s sad for the tournament. You’ve got four really good teams competing, hoping to play some really good cricket. That’s taken away from us but I’m sure the final will be a great event,” Knight said.

She ends by saying that “It’ll be a great day and game for the sport. I’ll be there as a fan. It has been a brilliant tournament, which has made it even more of a shame that we lost today. Today is disappointing but it won’t take too much shine off where the sport has gone and you see if the money is put into publicizing it that people do want to come and watch.”