Women’s World Cup 2029 Teams & 2032 Cricket Olympics
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ICC Announces Expansion of Women’s Cricket World Cup and T20 World Cup
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What Happened
keen to build on the success of the recently concluded Women’s World cup, the ICC has agreed to expand the next edition of the tournament (2029) to ten teams. The ICC had announced the expansion of the women’s game on International Women’s Day back in 2021, and a recent release reaffirmed the board’s “commitment to the growth of women’s cricket” after the success of the 2025 edition.
As 2000, only eight teams have featured in the main tournament of the Women’s ODI World Cup. The 2029 edition will have 10 teams playing 48 games, a meaningful increase from the 31 matches in the recent World Cup.
The Women’s T20 World Cup next year will also be expanded to 12 teams,up from the 10 that featured last year in the UAE.
Record-Breaking Attendance and Viewership
“Nearly 300,000 fans watched the event in stadia breaking the record for tournament attendance for any women’s Cricket event,” the ICC release said. “The tournament also witnessed viewership growth and new records being set for on-screen audiences across the world with nearly 500 million viewers in India.”
ICC Women’s Cricket Committee Appointments
The ICC board also ratified the appointment of a number of members of the ICC Women’s Cricket Committee, namely Ashley De Silva, Mithali Raj, Amol Muzumdar, Ben Sawyer, Charlotte Edwards, and sala Stella Siale-Vaea.