March 2
Women’s Cricket World Cup: India To Feature For 10th Time
The 12th edition of the Women’s Cricket World Cup will finally start from March 4 in New Zealand. It was initially scheduled to be played in February – March 2021. But, due to Covid-19 pandemic, it was postponed.
This World Cup will be played March 4 to April 3 in six different cities – Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Tauranga and Wellington.
Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and West Indies are participating in ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup and it will have 31 matches.
The most successful teams
Australia are the most successful team in the tournament history lifting the trophy on six occasions (1978, 1982, 1988, 1997, 2005 and 2013) followed by defending champions England, who have won the World Cup on four occasions (1973, 1993, 2009 and the most recent one in 2017).
New Zealand, the winners of the 2000 edition, are the third team to have claimed the silverware.
While Australia and England have dominated the tournament historically, India were the runners up in two of the recent four tournaments – they lost the final to Australia in Centurion in 2005 and to England at Lord’s in 2017. In the final at Lord’s, India were 191-3 chasing 229 before England staged a comeback to win the game by nine runs.
