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The 2024 Women's T20 World Cup was the ninth edition of the Women's T20 World Cup.Originally scheduled to be hosted in Bangladesh from 3 to 20 October 2024, it was later relocated to the United Arab Emirates for the same dates due to political unrest in Bangladesh, although the Bangladesh Cricket Board still held the hosting rights. [1]
The Women's T20 World Cup is the biennial international championship for women's Twenty20 International cricket. [3] The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council , with the first edition having been held in England in 2009 . [ 4 ]
New Zealand beat South Africa in the Women’s T20 World Cup final to become champions for the first time ... there is a performance gulf between the haves and the have nots in women’s cricket ...
In The Laws of Cricket, the only explicit difference between men's and women's cricket is the ball size. According to The Laws of Cricket: Clause 4.6.1 Women’s cricket Weight: from 4.94 ounces/140 g to 5.31 ounces/151 g Circumference: from 8.25 in/21.0 cm to 8.88 in/22.5 cm.
Limited overs cricket was first played by first-class teams in England in 1962. [5] Nine years later, the first international one day match was played in men's cricket, when England took on Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. [6] Talks began in 1971 about holding a World Cup for women's cricket, led by Jack Hayward. [7]
The SCG hosted the second Test match in women's cricket history. England became the first international women's cricket team to visit Australia, touring in the summer of 1934–35 to compete in a series against an Australian team captained by Margaret Peden. Three Test matches—the first-ever involving women—were played during the series ...
The New Zealand women's national cricket team, nicknamed the White Ferns, represents New Zealand in international women's cricket.One of eight teams competing in the ICC Women's Championship (the highest level of international women's cricket), the team is organised by New Zealand Cricket, a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
The 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship is the third edition of the ICC Women's Championship, a One Day International (ODI) cricket competition that is being contested by ten teams, to determine qualification for the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup. [1] The top five teams, along with the hosts India, [2] will qualify directly for the World Cup. [3]