2020 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier

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2020 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier
Dates3 – 19 July 2020 [1]
Administrator(s) International Cricket Council
Cricket format 50 overs
Host(s)Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka
Participants10
← 2017

The 2020 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier was an upcoming international women's cricket tournament that is scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka July 2020. [2] [3] [4] It would have been the qualification process for the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup. The tournament would have been the fifth edition of the World Cup Qualifier. The tournament would have been played as 50 overs matches. All the regional qualification tournaments used the Women's Twenty20 International format. [5] The top three teams from the qualifier tournament would have progressed to the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand. [6]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that they were monitoring the situation and reviewing the scheduling of the tournament. [1] [7] However, on 12 May 2020, the ICC confirmed that the tournament had been postponed. [8] [9]

Qualification

The following teams qualified for the tournament:

Means of QualificationDateHostBerthsQualified
Automatic Qualifications
WODI status [5] November 2018Tournament results2

Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh
Cricket Ireland flag.svg  Ireland

6th–8th in the 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship [5] December 2019Tournament results3

Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan [10]
WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies [11]
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka [12]

Regional Qualifications
Asia 18–27 February 2019 Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand [13] 1Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand [14]
Africa 5–12 May 2019 Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Zimbabwe [15] 1Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe [16]
East Asia-Pacific 6–10 May 2019 Flag of Vanuatu.svg Vanuatu [17] 1Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea [18]
Americas 17–19 May 2019 Flag of the United States.svg United States [19] 1Flag of the United States.svg  United States [20]
Europe 26–29 June 2019 Flag of Spain.svg Spain [21] 1Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands [22]
Total10

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