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Cricket News: India, Bangladesh and England set to host Women’s World Cups | Locations set for T20 World Cups and ODI World Cup until 2027
India has won the rights to host the women’s One Day International (ODI) World Cup in 2025, Cricbuzz reports. The T20 World Cups in 2024 and 2026 will be held in Bangladesh and England respectively. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka is set to be the host nation for the inaugural T20 Champions Trophy in 2027.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has clarified that these countries were awarded the rights on the basis of a competitive bidding process. A sub-committee comprising of Martin Snedden, Clare Connor, Ricky Skerritt and Sourav Ganguly reviewed each bid.
“Accelerating the growth of the women’s game is one of the ICC’s strategic priorities and taking these events to some of our sport’s biggest markets give us a fantastic opportunity to do that and deepen its connection with cricket’s one billion plus fans,” ICC Chairman Greg Barclay was quoted in a report by the aforementioned website.
Women’s World Cups will help accelerate the growth of the game
Meanwhile, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah asserted that India has the necessary infrastructure in place to deliver a successful edition of the Women’s ODI World Cup.
ECB’s interim CEO Clare Connor reminisced Heather Knight lifting the ODI World Cup for England at Lord’s in 2017. He explained that women’s cricket has developed by leaps and bounds since then with a greater number of girls taking up the sport at various professional levels.
“We’re seeing right now the positive impact that the Women’s Euros is having for football, and hosting this global cricket event will give us another incredible opportunity to inspire even more girls to pick up a bat and ball,” Connor further explained.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh will be hosting the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup for the second time. The tournament was played over there back in 2014 and Australia had emerged victorious in that edition of the competition. Moreover, the women’s T20 finals will be extended to 12 teams from the current 10 from 2026 onwards.
The Women’s Champions Trophy is a new format and Sri Lanka will host the inaugural edition of the six-nation tournament in 2027. But it remains subject to their own qualification for the same. Accordingly, three of the four major women’s ICC tournaments set to be played till 2027 are likely to be hosted in the Indian sub-continent.