The ICC Ladies’s ODI World Cup 2025 is all set to return to the subcontinent, with India and Sri Lanka confirmed as co-hosts for the worldwide occasion scheduled from September 30 to November 2. The match can be performed throughout 5 venues, 4 in India (Bengaluru, Guwahati, Indore, Visakhapatnam) and one in Sri Lanka (Colombo), making a return of the Ladies’s World Cup to Indian soil for the primary time since 2013.
The Worldwide Cricket Council just lately finalized the internet hosting particulars for the 2025 Ladies’s ODI World Cup, together with preliminary fixtures for the Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2026 in England. India had lengthy been picked to host the 50-over version. Nonetheless, contemplating the diplomatic relations between India and Pakistan, a hybrid mannequin has been chosen to accommodate Pakistan’s participation, with all their matches being moved to a impartial venue in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
This association has been made after India’s senior males’s workforce performed all their ICC Champions Trophy 2025 matches in Dubai on account of their refusal to journey to Pakistan. In flip, Pakistan’s ladies’s workforce will no longer journey to India however as an alternative play in Colombo, together with, probably, a semi-final and the ultimate in the event that they qualify.
The match will function eight groups, together with India, Australia, England, South Africa, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. These groups will compete in a round-robin format involving 31 matches, with the highest 4 qualifying for the semi-finals. Bengaluru’s M. Chinnaswamy Stadium is more likely to host the opening match on September 30 and probably the ultimate on November 2, until Pakistan reaches the ultimate, and the sport can be performed at Colombo’s R. Premadasa Stadium.
In the meantime, the primary semi-final is scheduled both in Guwahati or Colombo on October 29, and the second semi-final in Bengaluru on October 30. Notably, venues like Holkar Stadium (Indore) and ACA-VDCA Stadium (Visakhapatnam) can be returning to ladies’s cricket after a number of years. Whereas some, like Holkar, can be internet hosting ladies’s internationals for the primary time. Notably, New Chandigarh, initially thought of as a possible ultimate venue, was dropped, because the BCCI reportedly expressed concern about India presumably taking part in a ultimate in a metropolis the place they’ve by no means performed a global fixture.
Lord’s to host Ladies’s T20 WC semis and ultimate
Moreover, the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2026 in England may have a ultimate at Lord’s on July 5 after beginning on June 12 at Edgbaston, Birmingham. Notably, on June 30 and July 2, The Oval will host the semi-finals. Twelve groups will compete within the occasion, greater than in any of its different editions. The 2026 Ladies’s T20 World Cup has already seen the qualification of England, Australia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, the West Indies, and defending champions New Zealand. Subsequent yr, a qualifying match will verify the ultimate 4 groups.