2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
| File:2023 ICC Women's T20 World cup logo.jpeg Logo of the tournament | |
| Dates | 10 – 26 February 2023 |
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| Administrator(s) | International Cricket Council |
| Cricket format | Women's Twenty20 International |
| Host(s) | South Africa |
| Participants | 10 |
| Matches | 23 |
| Official website | www |
The 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup is the ongoing eighth edition of ICC Women's T20 World Cup tournament.[1][2] It is currently being held in South Africa,[3][4] from 10 to 26 February 2023.[5] Australia are the defending champions.[6] In November 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the tournament had been moved from its original slot at the end of 2022 to February 2023 due to the 2022 FIFA World Cup.[7][8] On 3 October 2022, the ICC confirmed the fixtures for the tournament.[9]
Teams and qualification
In December 2020 the ICC confirmed the qualification process for the tournament.[10] South Africa automatically qualified for the tournament as the hosts. They were joined by the seven highest ranked teams in the ICC Women's T20I Rankings, as of 30 November 2021, who competed at the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia.[11] The remaining two teams were Ireland and Bangladesh, the finalists of the qualifying tournament.[12]
| Team | Qualification |
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 South Africa |
Host Nation |
 Australia |
Automatic qualification |
 England
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 India
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 New Zealand
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 Pakistan
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 Sri Lanka
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 West Indies
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 Bangladesh |
Via qualifying tournament |
 Ireland
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Squads
Each team selected a squad of 15 players before the tournament, and was able to replace any injured players. Pakistan were the first to name their squad on 14 December 2022.[13]
Venues
In August 2022, the ICC announced that 3 venues in three cities would host matches. The venues were hosted at the Newlands Cricket Ground, St George's Park and Boland Park.[14][15][16]
Venues of 2023 ICC World T20 in South Africa |
Cape Town | Gqeberha | Paarl |
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| Newlands Cricket Ground | St George's Park | Boland Park | |
| Capacity: 25 000 | Capacity: 19 000 | Capacity: 10 000 | |
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| Matches: 12 (incl SFs/F) | Matches: 5 | Matches: 6 |
Match officials
On 27 January 2023, the ICC appointed the all-woman panel of match officials for the tournament. Along with the ten umpires, G. S. Lakshmi, Shandre Fritz and Michell Pereira were also named as the match referees.[17][18]
- Match Referees
- Umpires
Warm-up matches
Before the T20 World Cup, the participating nations competed in ten warm-up matches, which were played from 6 February to 8 February 2023. These matches did not have either Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status or WT20 status.[19]
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- West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
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- Ireland won the toss and elected to field.
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- South Africa won the toss and elected to field.
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- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
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- Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
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- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
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- England won the toss and elected to field.
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- Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
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- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.
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- India won the toss and elected to bat.
Group stage
The ICC released the fixture details on 3 October 2022.[9]
Group 1
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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| 1 | Australia
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4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2.149 |
| 2 | South Africa (H)
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4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.738 |
| 3 | New Zealand
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4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.138 |
| 4 | Sri Lanka
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4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | −1.460 |
| 5 | Bangladesh
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4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1.529 |
Advance to the knockout stage
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- South Africa won the toss and elected to field.
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- New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.
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- South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
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- Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.
Group 2
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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| 1 | England
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4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2.860 |
| 2 | India
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4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.253 |
| 3 | West Indies
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4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | −0.601 |
| 4 | Pakistan
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4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −0.703 |
| 5 | Ireland
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4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1.814 |
Advanced to the knockout stage
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- West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
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- Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
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- Ireland won the toss and elected to bat.
- Alice Capsey (Eng) equalled the record for the fastest 50 in a Women's T20 World Cup match (21 balls).[20]
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- West Indies won the toss and elected to bat.
- Deepti Sharma became the first Indian bowler to take 100 wickets in WT20Is.[21][22]
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- Ireland won the toss and elected to field.
- Muneeba Ali became the first woman for Pakistan to score a century in WT20Is.[23]
Knockout stage.
Bracket
| Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
Semi-finals
Final
References
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- ^ "Two ICC Women's World Cups and four ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournaments to be staged from 2016-2023".
- ^ "Big-Three rollback begins, BCCI opposes". ESPN Cricinfo. 4 February 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
- ^ "Men's 2020 T20 World Cup postponed because of coronavirus". BBC Sport. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
- ^ "2023 Women's T20 World Cup to begin on February 10". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
- ^ "Women's T20 World Cup final: Australia beat India at MCG". BBC Sport. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
- ^ "ICC announces altered points system for World Test Championship". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ^ "2022 Women's T20 World Cup in South Africa postponed to February 2023". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ^ a b "ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2023 match schedule released". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
- ^ "ICC T20 World Cup 2023 qualifiers set to begin in August 2021". Women's CricZone. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
- ^ "Qualification for ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2023 announced". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
- ^ "2022 Under-19 men's World Cup qualifying events set to begin in June 2021". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
- ^ "Baig returns as Pakistan name squads for Australia and T20 World Cup". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
- ^ Zyl, Tanya van. "St George's stadium to host 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup matches". News24. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
- ^ "Gqeberha, Paarl and Cape Town to host ICC Women's T20 World Cup in February 2023". India Today. August 22, 2022. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
- ^ "Cape Town, Paarl and Gqeberha to host Women's T20 World Cup". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
- ^ "Historic feat: All-female panel to officiate at the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2023". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
- ^ "All-female match official group announced for ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2023". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
- ^ "Women's T20 World Cup warm-up Matches". T20 World Cup. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
- ^ "Women's T20 World Cup: Sophie Ecclestone and Alice Capsey lead England to a scratchy four-wicket win over Ireland". BBC Sport. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
- ^ "Women's T20 World Cup: Deepti Sharma becomes first Indian to claim 100 T20I wickets". The Indian Express. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "'Special TON': Deepti Sharma becomes first Indian to take 100 T20I wickets". The Times of India. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ "Muneeba Ali becomes first Pakistani to score century in Women's T20Is". ARY News. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
External links
- 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup
- International cricket competitions in 2022–23
- 2023 in South African cricket
- 2023 in South African women's sport
- 2023 in women's cricket
- February 2023 sports events in Africa
- March 2023 sports events in Africa
- International women's cricket competitions in South Africa
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