Cricket icons Mithali Raj and Yuvraj Singh have been a part of star-studded panels that conversed on numerous elements of girls’s cricket at a operate in Mumbai to mark ‘50 Days to Go’ for the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup 2025, the trophy tour for which was additionally launched immediately.
The occasion was inaugurated by ICC Chairman Jay Shah earlier than the panel discussions, which additionally featured Indian cricket stars Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues, and Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) CEO Sanjog Gupta.
ICC Chairman Jay Shah mentioned the upcoming World Cup was an amazing probability to additional develop the ladies’s recreation and welcomed the inputs of current and former gamers within the panel discussions.
Jay Shah, ICC Chairman, mentioned
“The return of the ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup 2025 to India comes at a defining second for the ladies’s recreation, setting the stage for a very world-class match that can additional elevate the game’s world stature.
“On the ICC, we stay open to new concepts and are continually exploring methods to maintain the upward momentum of girls’s cricket. Conversations like immediately’s panel dialogue are invaluable in shaping our collective imaginative and prescient and driving progress.
“With simply 50 days to go till the beginning of the match, preparations are nicely underway, and pleasure is constructing. I lengthen my greatest needs to all collaborating groups as they gear up for the problem. I’m assured they may have an unforgettable expertise in India and Sri Lanka.”
The ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup, to be performed on a round-robin format amongst eight groups – Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka — would be the first girls’s world cricket occasion within the subcontinent since India hosted the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup in 2016.
India has additionally hosted the Ladies’s World Cup in 1978, 1997 and 2013
Trophy Tour: The promotion of the occasion will probably be boosted with a Trophy Tour that can go to all host cities of the match in addition to Delhi and Mumbai, stopping at iconic landmarks alongside the best way and giving followers an opportunity to observe the motion through the devoted Instagram Channel.
The Trophy Tour will go to a number of faculties in every host metropolis as a part of a wider faculty legacy programme, the place the BCCI and the ICC will work alongside stakeholders to provide choose faculties the chance to attend matches of the World Cup.