Next year’s Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand could be played behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Organisers, who are set to stage the tournament in February and March, have advertised to hire a ‘bio-security manager’.

This is reportedly in a bid to stage the entire event in a ‘bio-secure environment’, according to BBC Sport.

Tournament organisers gave a brief of what they want from someone taking the job, stating they want an individual to ‘lead the planning, development and delivery of a safe and secure environment for all tournament participants, including staff and suppliers, and the New Zealand public’.

This is despite there currently being no confirmed cases of coronavirus in New Zealand.

The International Cricket Council will discuss further how to plan the tournament at a meeting on Friday.

Qualification was due to take place in Sri Lanka in July but was postponed as a result of the pandemic, with no re-scheduled date yet confirmed.

Defending champions England are one of four nations to have already booked their place in the finals along with Australia, India and New Zealand.

Last month, the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, which was due to get underway in Australia in October, was postponed.