The 2023 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup was the first edition of the

Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup The ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup is an international cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) contested by national women's under-19 teams. The first tournament took place in January 2023 in South Africa ...

, hosted by South Africa in 2023. The tournament was moved from its original slot at the end of 2021 to January 2023 because of the

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. Sixteen teams competed in the tournament, initially divided into four groups.

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and

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progressed to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, India beat New Zealand by 8 wickets and England beat Australia by 3 runs. The final took place on 29 January 2023 at

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, and saw India beat England by 7 wickets to become the inaugural champions of the ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup.

Background

Originally, the tournament was scheduled to take place in January 2021, before being moved back to December 2021 due to the

. In November 2020, the ICC looked at the possibility of deferring the tournament from its scheduled slot of January 2021 to later in the year. In January 2021, the

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(BCB) confirmed that they would host the tournament in December 2021, however the tournament was postponed for a second time, and was moved to January 2023. In January 2022,

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, the CEO of the ICC said that the tournament was "very much on the cards", and that the ICC were starting the process for hosts.

Qualification

In June 2022, the ICC confirmed the qualification process for the tournament. Hosts South Africa, along with Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe all qualified automatically for the tournament. The United States also qualified automatically, as they were the only eligible team to compete from the Americas regional group. The four remaining places will come from regional qualification groups. The United Arab Emirates were the first team to qualify from the regional groups, after they won the Asia Qualifier. Indonesia won their three-match series against Papua New Guinea to win the East Asia-Pacific group to qualify. It was the first time that Indonesia had qualified for an ICC World Cup tournament at any level. Rwanda won the African Qualifiers to qualify for the World Cup, the first time that Rwanda had qualified for an ICC World Cup tournament at any level. This was also the first ICC Women's World Cup for

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, and

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at any level.

Competition format

The 16 teams were divided into four groups of four, and play once against each other side in their group. The top three teams in each group progressed to the Super Six League stage, where qualifying teams from Group A played against two of the qualifying teams from Group D, and qualifying teams from Group B played against two of the qualifying teams from Group C. Points from matches against teams that also qualified from the first group stage were carried forward into the Super Six League stage. The top two sides from each of the Super Six Leagues progressed to the semi-finals, with the final taking place on 29 January 2023.

Squads

Each team could select a squad of fifteen players for the tournament, with additional non-travelling reserves also able to be named.

were the first side to name their squad, doing so on 18 October 2022.

Match officials

On 5 January 2023, ICC announced the names of fifteen match officials for the tournament, of whom nine were women – making it the highest number of female match officials to be appointed for any ICC event. ;Match Referees *

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;Umpires * Maria Abbott * Sarah Bartlett * Sarah Dambanevana * Jasmine Naeem * Kerrin Klaaste * Wayne Knights * Candace la Borde * Lisa McCabe *

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* Virender Sharma *

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Venues

Warm-up matches

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Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

(H) Host
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Fourth-Place play-offs

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Super 6

Super 6 Group 1

(H) Host
Advanced to

Knockout Stage A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...

---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

Super 6 Group 2

Advanced to

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Knockout stage

Semi-finals

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Final

Statistics

* Highest score by a team:

– 219/3 (20 overs) v

(16 January). * Top score by an individual:

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(England) – 93 (56) v

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(21 January). * Best bowling figures by an individual: Ellie Anderson (England) – 5/12 (4 overs) v

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(25 January).

Most runs

Source: ESPNcricinfo

Most wickets

Source: ESPNcricinfo

Team of the tournament

On 30 January 2023, the ICC announced the Team of the Tournament.

was also named Player of the Tournament. *

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( c) *

Shafali Verma Shafali Verma (born 28 January 2004) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the India women's national cricket team. In 2019, at the age of 15, she became the youngest cricketer to play in a Women's Twenty20 International match for India. In June 2 ...

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* Dewmi Vihanga * Shorna Akter * Karabo Meso ( wk) * Parshavi Chopra *

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* Ellie Anderson * Maggie Clark * Anosha Nasir (12th woman)

References

External links

Tournament home at ESPN Cricinfo

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