2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup

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2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup logo.svg
Dates3 October – 20 October 2024
Administrator(s) International Cricket Council
Cricket format Women's Twenty20 International
Host(s)Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh
Participants10
Matches23
Official website womens.t20worldcup.com
2023
2026

The 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup is scheduled to be the ninth edition of ICC Women's T20 World Cup tournament. [1] It is scheduled to be hosted in Bangladesh from 3 to 20 October 2024. [2] Australia are the defending champions having defeated South Africa in final of the previous edition.

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Teams and qualification

In April 2022, the ICC confirmed the qualification process for the tournament. [1] Bangladesh qualified for the tournament automatically as the hosts. Scotland qualified for the Women's T20 World Cup for the first time after defeating Ireland in the first semi-final of the qualifier. [3] [4] Sri Lanka became the second qualifier and reached their ninth T20 World Cup after defeating United Arab Emirates in the second semi-final. [5] Overall, nine out of ten teams from 2023 reached the T20 World Cup, with the only difference being Scotland replacing Ireland. [6]

Qualified teams for the 2024 Women's T20 World Cup.
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Qualified automatically
Qualified via the ICC Women's T20I Team Rankings
Qualified via the Global Qualifier
Qualified for the Global Qualifier, but failed to reach the T20 World Cup.
Participated in the regional qualifiers but failed to progress to the Global Qualifier 2024 Womens T20 World Cup Participating nations.svg
Qualified teams for the 2024 Women's T20 World Cup.
  Qualified automatically
  Qualified via the ICC Women's T20I Team Rankings
  Qualified via the Global Qualifier
  Qualified for the Global Qualifier, but failed to reach the T20 World Cup.
  Participated in the regional qualifiers but failed to progress to the Global Qualifier
Means of qualificationBerthsQualified
Hosts1Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh
2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
(Top 6 teams from the previous tournament, excluding hosts)
6Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Flag of England.svg  England
Flag of India.svg  India
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies
ICC Women's T20I Team Rankings
(Next highest ranked team on 27th February 2023)
1Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier 2Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka
Total10

Venues

In July 2022, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) confirmed that two venues, Dhaka and Sylhet would host the matches. [7] Although, Sylhet was supposed to host the final instead.

DhakaSylhet
Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium Sylhet International Cricket Stadium
Capacity: 25,416Capacity: 18,500
Shere Bangla National Stadium.jpg silett aantrjaatik krikett stteddiy'aam.jpg
Matches: 12Matches: 11

Warm-up matches

Before the T20 World Cup, the participating nations to compete in ten warm-up matches, which are schedlude to play from 27 September to 1 October 2024. These matches will not have either Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status or WT20 status. [8]

Warm-up matches

Group stage

The ICC released the tournament schedule on 5 May 2024. [9]

Group A

PosTeamPldWLTNRPts NRR Qualification
1Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 000000Advance to knockout stage
2Flag of India.svg  India 000000
3Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 000000
4Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 000000
5Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka 000000
First match(es) will be played: 4 October 2024. Source: ESPNcricinfo

Fixtures










Group B

PosTeamPldWLTNRPts NRR Qualification
1Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh (H)000000Advance to knockout stage
2Flag of England.svg  England 000000
3Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 000000
4Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 000000
5WestIndiesCricketFlagPre1999.svg  West Indies 000000
First match(es) will be played: 3 October 2024. Source: ESPNcricinfo
(H) Host

Fixtures










Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals Final
      
A1 Winner of Group A
B2 Runner-up of Group B
SF1W Winner of Semi-final 1
SF2W Winner of Semi-final 2
B1 Winner of Group B
A2 Runner-up of Group A

Semi-finals

17 October 2024
19:00 (N)
Scorecard
TBD
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TBD

18 October 2024
19:00 (N)
Scorecard
TBD
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TBD

Final

20 October 2024
19:00 (N)
Scorecard
TBD
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TBD

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