All you should know forward of the thirteenth, history-making version of the Girls’s Cricket World Cup, which is dwell in full on Sky Sports activities this autumn.
When is it?
The 2025 Girls’s Cricket World Cup runs from Tuesday September 30 to Sunday November 2 in India and Sri Lanka.
The 2 co-hosts meet within the opening match in Guwahati, whereas the ultimate will happen in both Navi Mumbai or Colombo.
Each recreation can be proven dwell on Sky Sports activities, together with England’s first fixture in opposition to South Africa in Guwahati on Friday October 3 (10.30am first ball).
England start their World Cup marketing campaign in opposition to South Africa on October 3
The place are video games being held?
4 Indian venues (Guwahati, Navi Mumbai, Visakhapatnam, Indore) plus one in Sri Lanka (Colombo) will stage matches.
When Pakistan certified it was confirmed their matches can be held exterior of India attributable to political tensions between the nations.
If Pakistan attain the semi-finals they’ll play within the first last-four fixture on Wednesday October 29 with that recreation held in Colombo as an alternative of Guwahati.
In the event that they make the ultimate, Colombo will even stage that fixture versus Navi Mumbai.
India can be seeking to win their first World Cup title
Which eight groups are enjoying?
India certified as official hosts, whereas Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa and Sri Lanka secured their spots after ending within the high six of the 2022-2025 ICC Girls’s Championship. Pakistan and Bangladesh got here by a qualifying occasion that additionally featured West Indies, Scotland, Eire and Thailand.
How does the competitors work?
The eight sides play one another as soon as every within the league stage with the highest 4 advancing to the semi-finals.
First within the desk will then play fourth with second taking up third. The winners will transfer on to the ultimate on Sunday November 2.
Each recreation from the World Cup can be proven dwell on Sky Sports activities from September 30
How a lot will the champions earn?
The winners will scoop £3.3m, exceeding the £2.96m Australia picked up for profitable the lads’s World Cup in 2023.
That determine of £3.3m is up £980,000 from the payment Australia earnt from victory within the 2022 World Cup in New Zealand.
The overall Girls’s World Cup prize pot this 12 months is £10.26m, up from the £2.59m three years in the past within the final version.
Who’re the match officers?
In a Girls’s Cricket World Cup first, the whole panel of match officers can be feminine – 14 umpires, together with England’s Sue Redfern, and 4 match referees.
England’s Sue Redfern is amongst an all-female match officers panel for the World Cup
Who has received the earlier World Cups?
- 1973 – England
- 1978 – Australia
- 1982 – Australia
- 1988 – Australia
- 1993 – England
- 1997 – Australia
- 2000 – New Zealand
- 2005 – Australia
- 2009 – England
- 2013 – Australia
- 2017 – England
- 2022 – Australia
