The International Cricket Council (ICC) has disclosed the complete schedule for the 2025 edition of the Women’s Cricket World Cup. Hosts India will take on Sri Lanka in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 opener on 30 September 2025 in Bengaluru.
In the meantime, leading champions Australia will open their title defence against Trans-Tasman rivals and defending T20 World Cup champions, New Zealand, in Indore on 1 October. The schedule for the eight-team tournament was inveterate by the ICC on Monday, with the event to run in India and Sri Lanka from 30 September to 2 November.
A total of five cities across the two countries will host matches, with Bengaluru, Vizag, Indore, Guwahati and Colombo all planned for fixtures. One semi-final will be detained in Bengaluru, with the other to be played in either Colombo or Guwahati. The Final is arranged for 2 November in Bengaluru or Colombo. The eight-team tournament will be played with teams fronting the rest of the competition in a single round-robin, with the top four sides progressing to the semi-finals. Teams will also competition in two warm-up matches each, starting on 24 September.
Hosts India will be facing the runners-up from the 2022 edition of the tournament, England, in Bengaluru on 24 September, followed by a clash against South Africa three days later in Guwahati.
The future edition will be the 13th since the tournament’s beginning in 1973. Defending champions Australia, who settled their seventh title in 2022, went on to top ICC Women’s Championship Standings, with the top six teams of the competition qualifying mechanically for the World Cup.
England, New Zealand, South Africa and Sri Lanka also stamped their ticket via the Women’s Championship alongside hosts India, with the final two spots decided by the Women’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier earlier in the year.
Pakistan and Bangladesh booked their passage by concluding in the top two at the Qualifier back in April.
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