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Women's Cricket World Cup

This article is about the women's tournament. For the men's equivalent tournament, see Men's Cricket World Cup. For the "mini World Cup", see ICC Women's Champions Trophy. For the T20 tournament, see ICC Women's T20 World Cup.

ICC Women's Cricket World Cup
AdministratorInternational Cricket Council
FormatWODI
First edition1973  England
Latest edition2022  New Zealand
Next edition2025  India
Number of teams8 (10 from 2029)
Current champion Australia (7th title)
Most successful Australia (7 titles)
Most runsNew Zealand Debbie Hockley (1,501)
Most wicketsIndia Jhulan Goswami (43)
Tournaments

The ICC Women's Cricket World Cup is the (sport's oldest world championship, with the first tournament held in England in 1973) quadrennial international championship of Women's One Day International Cricket tournament. Matches are played as One Day Internationals (ODIs) over 50 overs per team (though the first five championships, from 1973 to 1993, were played at 60 overs per team). There is also another championship for Twenty20 International cricket, the ICC Women's T20 World Cup.

The World Cup is currently organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). Until 2005, when the two organisations merged, it was administered by a separate body, the International Women's Cricket Council (IWCC). The first World Cup was held in England in 1973, two years before the inaugural men's tournament. The event's early years were marked by funding difficulties, which meant several teams had to decline invitations to compete and caused gaps of up to six years between tournaments. However, since 2005 World Cups have been hosted at regular four-year intervals.

Qualification for the World Cup is through the ICC Women's Championship and the World Cup Qualifier. The composition of the tournament is extremely conservative – no new teams have debuted in the tournament since 1997, and since 2000 the number of teams in the World Cup has been fixed at eight. However, in March 2021, the ICC revealed that the tournament would expand to 10 teams from the 2029 edition.[1][2] The 1997 edition was contested by a record eleven teams, the most in a single tournament to date.[3]

The twelve World Cups played to date have been held in five countries, with India and England having hosted the event three times. Australia is the most successful team, having won seven titles and failed to make the final on only three occasions. England (four titles) and New Zealand (one title) are the only other teams to have won the event, while India (twice) and the West Indies (once) have each reached the final without going on to win.

  1. ^ Jolly, Laura (8 March 2021). "New event, more teams added to World Cup schedule". cricket.com.au. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  2. ^ "ICC announces expansion of the women's game". www.icc-cricket.com. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Points Table | ICC Women's World Cup 1997". static.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 6 April 2021.

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