Womens Cricket World Cup

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Established
1973 (52 years old)

First Recorded Event
2013-01-31

Current Season
2025

Current Round
200

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Location
Worldwide

Gender
Female

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Results
02 Nov	India Cri	-	South Afr
30 Oct	Australia	338 - 341	India Cri
29 Oct	England C	194 - 319	South Afr
26 Oct	India Cri	57 - 119	Banglades
26 Oct	England C	172 - 168	New Zeala
25 Oct	Australia	98 - 97	South Afr
24 Oct	Sri Lanka	- 18	Pakistan
23 Oct	India Cri	340 - 271	New Zeala
22 Oct	Australia	248 - 244	England C
21 Oct	Pakistan	83 - 312	South Afr

Description

The ICC Women's Cricket World Cup is the sport's oldest world championship, with the first tournament held in England in 1973. Matches are played as One Day Internationals (ODIs) over 50 overs, while there is also another championship for Twenty20 International cricket, the ICC Women's T20 World Cup.

The World Cup is currently organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). Until 2005, when the two organisations merged, it was administered by a separate body, the International Women's Cricket Council (IWCC). The first World Cup was held in England in 1973, two years before the inaugural men's tournament. The event's early years were marked by funding difficulties, which meant several teams had to decline invitations to compete and caused gaps of up to six years between tournaments. However, since 2005 World Cups have been hosted at regular four-year intervals.

Qualification for the World Cup is through the ICC Women's Championship and the World Cup Qualifier. The composition of the tournament is extremely conservative – no new teams have debuted in the tournament since 1997, and since 2000 the number of teams in the World Cup has been fixed at eight. However, in March 2021, the ICC revealed that the tournament would expand to 10 teams from the 2029 edition. The 1997 edition was contested by a record eleven teams, the most in a single tournament to date.

The eleven World Cups played to date have been held in five countries, with India and England having hosted the event three times. Australia are the most successful team, having won six titles and failed to make the final on only three occasions. England (four titles) and New Zealand (one title) are the only other teams to have won the event, while India (twice) and the West Indies (once) have each reached the final without going on to win.

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