India shall be enjoying host to England, Australia, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe within the newly-announced ladies’s 2025-2029 Future Excursions Programme, which outlines matches for the fourth version of the ICC Ladies’s Championship. Within the scheduled introduced by the ICC on Monday, India shall be enjoying its away matches in New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies and Eire in the identical interval. The second ladies’s FTP will run from Could 2025 to April 2029. This FTP sees an ICC ladies’s occasion to be performed every year with the inaugural six-team Champions Trophy scheduled for 2027.
The opposite occasions through the interval are the ICC Ladies’s ODI World Cup in 2025 (India), Ladies’s T20 World Cup in 2026 (the UK) and one other version of Ladies’s T20 World Cup in 2028 (host but to be introduced).
The variety of taking part groups within the ICC Ladies’s Championship shall be at 11 this time, Zimbabwe added to the championship for the primary time. In all, 132 ODIs shall be performed in 44 collection of three matches every, lending context by the use of a qualification pathway to the ICC Ladies’s ODI World Cup in 2029.
Forward of the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2026, England will host India and New Zealand for a tri-series whereas Eire will host Pakistan and the West Indies. Sri Lanka and the West Indies are amongst different Members scheduled to host T20I tri-series, in 2027 and 2028, respectively.
“We’re happy that the brand new version of the IWC has expanded and can embody Zimbabwe as an eleventh crew. It’s heartening that Member Boards are eager to play throughout codecs, and in addition that they’ve deliberate tri-series to organize for ICC occasions.”
“The trouble made by the Members to supply a balanced and contextual calendar will additional elevate the ladies’s sport. We thank Member Boards for his or her dedication and collaboration in finalizing the FTP,” stated Wasim Khan, ICC Normal Supervisor of Cricket.
There’s extra scope for Take a look at matches on this FTP, with Australia, England, India, South Africa and the West Indies all agreeing to play multi-format collection that embody ODIs and T20Is. Australia will play the utmost such collection – two every in opposition to England, India and South Africa and one in opposition to the West Indies.
There is a window for 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, to be held in July that yr, aside from devoted annual home windows for the WBBL (November), The Hundred (August) and Ladies’s Premier League (WPL in January-February). From 2026 onwards, WPL shall be performed within the January-February window.
It additionally signifies that India’s multi-format go to of Australia, consisting of 1 Take a look at, three ODIs and three T20Is to now be held after the WPL in February-March 2026. “That is the primary ladies’s FTP with the WPL in place from the beginning. The BCCI’s resolution for the WPL to maneuver earlier within the calendar yr allowed us to have a look at our most well-liked instances to play worldwide cricket throughout the interval.”
“We’ve for some years now sought free house for our magnificent ladies’s crew and gamers to shine, and in addition for the crew to have a constant presence at a sure time of the season. The window of instantly following WPL in February-March was recognized.”
“This additionally permits us to increase the worldwide cricket season which we see as a bonus – cricket across the nation usually runs from the beginning of October to the top of March and having our greatest worldwide matches unfold over that interval is smart,” stated Peter Roach, CA’s head of operations and scheduling, to cricket.com.au.
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