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2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup

The 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup is the ninth edition of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup. It was scheduled to be hosted in Bangladesh from 3 to 20 October 2024; however, 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 holds the hosting rights. Australia are the defending champions.

Background

The ICC Women's T20 World Cup is a professional WT20I tournament held between women's national cricket teams, organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The tournament, now being held every two years, was first played in 2009 in England.[1] The last tournament held in 2023 in South Africa was contested by 10 teams. The defending champions are Australia, who defeated South Africa in the final of the previous edition.[2][3]

Host selection

In December 2022, the ICC announced that the 2024 Women's T20 World Cup would be played in Bangladesh.[4] In August 2024, the ICC announced that the 2024 Women's T20 World Cup would be played in the United Arab Emirates, with the Bangladesh Cricket Board remaining the official hosts.[5][6]

Format

The 10 qualifying teams were divided into two groups of five teams; all the five teams in a group played with all the others – for a total of ten matches – and the top two teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage.[7][8]

Schedule

On 28 July 2024, ICC announced that the tournament will be played from 3 to 20 October 2024.[citation needed] It was scheduled to be hosted in Bangladesh. However, it was later relocated to the United Arab Emirates for the same dates in August 2024.[9] On 16 August 2024, ICC announced that warm-up fixtures will be held from 27 September to 1 October.[citation needed] However, on 27 August 2024, after the announcement of the revised schedule, the warm-up fixtures were scheduled to be held from 28 September to 1 October.[10]

Prize money

The ICC allocated a pool of US$7,958,080 in prize money for the tournament. The winners would earn at least $2.34 million. In addition, each team will receive an additional $31,154 for each match they win excluding the semi-finals and final.[11][12]

Qualification

In April 2022, the ICC confirmed the qualification process for the tournament. The hosts, Bangladesh along with the top six teams from the 2023 tournament qualified automatically for the tournament. The remaining automatic qualification spot was taken by the best-ranked team in the ICC Women's T20I Team Rankings which had not already qualified, as of 27 February 2023.[1] The two remaining places were filled via the global qualifier, in which teams advanced from the regional qualifiers competed for it.

Scotland qualified for the Women's T20 World Cup for the first time after defeating Ireland in the first semi-final of the qualifier.[13][14] Sri Lanka became the second qualifier and reached their ninth T20 World Cup after defeating United Arab Emirates in the second semi-final.[15] Overall, nine out of ten teams from 2023 reached the T20 World Cup, with the only difference being Scotland replacing Ireland.[16]

Map higlighting the contries at 2024 WT20WC.
Countries that are participating in the 2024 Women's T20 World Cup.
  Qualified as hosts or by finishing in Top 8 in the previous tournament
  Qualified via the T20I Rankings
  Qualified via the Global Qualifier
  Participated in the Global Qualifier, but failed qualify
  Participated in the regional qualifiers but failed to progress

Venues

In July 2022, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) confirmed that two venues, Dhaka and Sylhet, would host the matches.[17] Dhaka was to host the final, although Sylhet was originally meant to host the finals.

Later, in August 2024, ICC announced that the United Arab Emirates will host the Women's T20 World Cup instead of Bangladesh due to internal conflicts in Bangladesh, although the BCB will retain the hosting rights to the event. The matches are scheduled to be played at Dubai and Sharjah.[18]

Squads

Each team was allowed to have a squad of 15 players with the provisional squad required to be submitted before the tournament.[19] Pakistan were the first to name their squad on 25 August 2024.[20] Australia followed a day after.[21] On 27th August, India and England announced their squads as well.[22][23] West Indies announced their squad on 29 August 2024.[24] Scotland announced their squad on 2 September 2024.[25] South Africa announced their squad on 3 September 2024.[26] New Zealand announced their squad on 10 September 2024.[27] Bangladesh announced their squad on 18 September 2024.[28] Sri Lanka became the final team to announce their squad on 20 September 2024.[29]

Match officials

On 24 September 2024, the ICC appointed an all-woman panel of match officials made up of three match referees and ten umpires for the tournament.[30][31][32]

Match Referees
Umpires

Warm-up matches

Ten warm-up matches were played from 28 September to 1 October 2024. These matches did not have either WT20I status or WT20 status.[33] The warm-up matches were played at The Sevens Stadium, ICC Academy Ground No. 1 and No. 2 in Dubai.[34]

Group stage

The ICC announced the groups and its fixtures on 5 May 2024.[35] After the relocation of the tournament to the United Arab Emirates, the new schedule was announced on 26 August 2024.[36]

The group stage matches are being played from 3 to 15 October 2024. The 10 teams were divided into two groups of five with each team facing the other teams in the group for a total of 20 matches.[37][38] The opening match was played between Bangladesh and Scotland at Sharjah Cricket Stadium on 3 October.

Group A

Updated to match(es) played on 3 October 2024. Source: ESPNcricinfo

Group B

Updated to match(es) played on 3 October 2024. Source: ESPNcricinfo
(H) Host

Group stage summary

Week 1

The tournament commenced on 3 October with the match between Bangladesh and Scotland, followed by the match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka both at Sharjah Cricket Stadium.

Knockout stage

The knockout stage will consist of two semi-finals, played at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on 17 October and Sharjah Cricket Stadium on 18 October, and the final, also at Dubai on 20 October.

Bracket

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics

Most runs

Most wickets

Broadcasting

The T20 World Cup streamed on ICC.tv for free to 116 territories in Afghanistan, Continental Europe, the Pacific Islands, and South-East Asia.[42]

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