The 1993 Women's Cricket World Cup was an international
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
tournament played in England from 20 July to 1 August 1993. Hosted by England for the second time, it was the fifth edition of the
Women's Cricket World Cup
The ICC Women's Cricket World Cup is the sport's oldest world championship, with the first tournament held in England in 1973. Matches are played as One Day Internationals (ODIs) over 50 overs per team, while there is also another champion ...
, and came over four years after the preceding
1988 World Cup in Australia.
The tournament was organised by the
International Women's Cricket Council
The International Women's Cricket Council was formed in February 1958 by the women's cricket associations of Australia, England, the Netherlands, New Zealand and South Africa to organise international matches between the countries.
In 2005 it was ...
(IWCC), with matches played over 60 overs. It was "run on a shoestring", and was close to being cancelled until a
£90,000 donation was received from the Foundation for Sport and the Arts.
[Raf Nicholson (4 November 2014)]
"Flashback: England's women upset the odds"
– All Out Cricket. Retrieved 30 August 2015. England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
won the tournament for a second time, defeating
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
in
the final
Final, Finals or The Final may refer to:
*Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event
** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...
by 67 runs. A record eight teams participated, with
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
, and the
West Indies
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater A ...
joining the five teams from the 1988 edition. Denmark and the West Indies were making their tournament debuts. England's
Jan Brittin
Janette Ann Brittin (4 July 1959 – 11 September 2017) was an English cricketer who played as a right-handed Batting (cricket), batter and right-arm Off spin, off break Bowler (cricket), bowler. She appeared in 27 Women's Test cricket, Tests ...
led the tournament in runs, while her captain
Karen Smithies
Karen Smithies (; born 20 March 1969) is a former England cricketer who played as a left-handed batter and right-arm medium bowler. She appeared in 15 Test matches and 69 One Day Internationals between 1986 and 2000, and was captain of Eng ...
and New Zealand's
Julie Harris
Julia Ann Harris (December 2, 1925August 24, 2013) was an American actress. Renowned for her classical and contemporary stage work, she received five Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play.
Harris debuted on Broadway in 1945, against the wish ...
led the tournament in wickets.
Squads
Venues
Warm-up matches
Eleven warm-up matches were played against various English teams, all before the beginning of the tournament.
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Group stage
Points table
* Note:
run rate
In cricket, the run rate (RR), or runs per over (RPO), is the average number of runs a batting side scores per over. It includes all runs made by the batting side in the innings to that point of the game, both the runs scored by the batsmen and ...
was used as a tiebreaker in the case of teams finishing on an equal number of points, rather than
net run rate
Net run rate (NRR) is a statistical method used in analysing teamwork and/or performance in cricket. It is the most commonly used method of ranking teams with equal points in limited overs league competitions, similar to goal difference in foo ...
(as is now common).
Matches
1st Match
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Final
The final at
Lord's
Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and ...
was attended by 4,500 spectators, including the
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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,
John Major
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. The match was broadcast live on
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'', and England's victory received front-page and back-page coverage in all of the major national newspapers, a first for women's cricket.
to Australia less than a week earlier. The
(WCA) was praised for its management of the final, but the increased media coverage also led to some criticism of its role in the sport as a whole.
The top five runscorers are included in this table, ranked by runs scored, then by
The top five wicket takers are listed in this table, ranked by wickets taken and then by