The ICC flagship occasion will return to the nation after greater than a decade.
The final time a ladies’s 50-over World Cup was held in India was again in 2013 when Australian emerged champions after beating the West Indies by 114 runs within the closing in Mumbai.
Three different ICC ladies’s occasions had been additionally awarded on the day with Bangladesh internet hosting the 2024 T20 World Cup and England successful internet hosting rights for the 2026 version.
The inaugural T20 Champions Trophy in 2027 will likely be hosted by Sri Lanka.
The final large mega ladies’s world cricket occasion held in India was the 2016 World T20 however that was primarily as a result of ICC used to organise each males’s and girls’s occasion concurrently.
Nevertheless, the system has modified with recognition of ladies’s recreation rising exponentially and ICC has segregated the occasions to acquire the correct worth for girls’s recreation with separate broadcast deal and unique protection.
“We had been eager on internet hosting the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup 2025 and we’re glad we now have received the internet hosting rights for this marquee conflict on the ladies’s calendar,” BCCI president Sourav Ganguly was quoted as saying in an ICC launch.
“The game has undergone large transformation since then. The recognition of ladies’s cricket is quickly rising, and this can be a step in the appropriate route. The BCCI will work carefully with the ICC and fulfil all the necessities.”
BCCI secretary Jay Shah mentioned: “We’re taking a number of steps to boost the profile of the game proper from the grassroots stage and internet hosting the World Cup will additional increase the recognition of the game within the nation.
“The BCCI stays dedicated to ladies’s cricket in India. We’ve the infrastructure in place, and I’m assured we may have a really profitable version of the World Cup.”
The 50 over Ladies’s World Cup, nevertheless, has been a stand-alone occasion since its inception in 1973, two years earlier than the lads’s mega occasion began in England in 1975.
India have hosted the occasion thrice — in 1978, 1997 and 2013.
These within the know of issues within the ICC felt that it was prudent name by the BCCI if they’re bidding for the 2025 ODI occasion.
“Since BCCI is bullish about beginning the Ladies’s IPL from subsequent season, I believe they wouldn’t like to carry some other marquee T20 ladies’s occasion instantly. Therefore the choice to bid for the 2025 World Cup appears logical,” the supply mentioned.
Within the 2025 Ladies’s World Cup, the hosts and 5 high nations from ICC Ladies’s Championship (IWC) 2022-2025 will get direct entry into the event.
The remaining two groups will likely be recognized via a worldwide Qualifier comprising six groups. Out of six groups within the Qualifier, 4 will likely be from the IWC (rankings after high 5 groups) and the opposite two will likely be chosen based on the ICC Ladies’s ODI Group Rankings.
Different Key Choices
ICC Board Finalises FTP
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The ICC Board authorized each the lads’s and girls’s Future Excursions Programme (FTP) from 2023 to 2027 and these will likely be revealed within the coming days.
It’s learnt that India will play 38 Assessments through the mentioned interval.
Laxman in ICC cricket Committee
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India nice and present head of Nationwide cricket Academy VVS Laxman has been appointed to the ICC Males’s Cricket Committee as present participant consultant alongside former New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori.
Roger Harper has been chosen because the second previous participant consultant on the committee becoming a member of Mahela Jayawardene.
New ICC Chairman to be elected in November
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The Board authorized the method to elect the subsequent Chair of the ICC which can happen in November 2022. The election will likely be determined by a easy majority not like earlier years when two-third majority was a should.
The time period of the elected Chair will run for a two-year interval from December 1 2022 to November 30, 2024.
BCCI president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah are anticipated to play a giant position in deciding who would substitute New Zealand’s Gregor Barclay.
Cambodia, Ivory Coast, Uzbekistan are new ICC Affiliate Members
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The expansion of worldwide cricket is being celebrated because the ICC welcomed its latest Members with Cambodia, Cote D’Ivoire and Uzbekistan all receiving Affiliate Membership standing.
Cambodia and Uzbekistan are the twenty fourth and twenty fifth Members of the Asia area, while Cote D’Ivoire is Africa’s twenty first Member, with the ICC now comprising 108 Members in whole, together with 96 Associates.