India will host the Girls’s 50-over World Cup in 2025 because the BCCI has efficiently bid for the occasion on Tuesday.
The mega occasion will return to the nation after greater than a decade. The final time a girls’s ICC flagship occasion was held in India was again within the 12 months 2013. At the moment, Staff Australia emerged champions after beating the West Indies by 114 runs within the ultimate in Mumbai.
The 50 over Girls’s World Cup has been a stand-alone occasion since its inception in 1973, two years earlier than the boys’s mega occasion began in England in 1975.
India hosted the occasion thrice within the following years:
Three different ICC girls’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 shall be hosted by Sri Lanka.
“We had been eager on internet hosting the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup 2025 and we’re glad we’ve gained the internet hosting rights for this marquee conflict on the ladies’s calendar,” BCCI president Sourav Ganguly was quoted.
“The game has undergone large transformation since then. The recognition of girls’s cricket is quickly rising, and this can be a step in the fitting route. The BCCI will work intently 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 girls’s cricket in India. Now we have the infrastructure in place, and I’m assured we may have a really profitable version of the World Cup.”
Within the 2025 Girls’s World Cup, the hosts and 5 high nations from ICC Girls’s Championship (IWC) 2022-2025 will get direct entry into the match.
The remaining two groups shall be recognized by way of a worldwide Qualifier comprising six groups. Out of six groups within the Qualifier, 4 shall be from the IWC (rankings after the highest 5 groups) and the opposite two shall be chosen in line with the ICC Girls’s ODI Staff Rankings.
The Different Key Selections:
- The ICC Board authorised each the boys’s and girls’s Future Excursions Programme (FTP) from 2023 to 2027 and these shall be printed within the coming days.
- VVS Laxman has been appointed to the ICC Males’s Cricket Committee as present participant consultant alongside former New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori.
- The Board authorised the method to elect the subsequent Chairman of the ICC which can happen in November 2022. The election shall be determined by a easy majority in contrast to earlier years when two-third majority was a should.
- Cambodia, Ivory Coast, Uzbekistan are new ICC Affiliate Members
(Inputs from PTI)