The 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship was the third edition of the

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, a

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(ODI) cricket competition that was contested by ten teams, to determine qualification for the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup. The top five teams, along with the hosts India, qualified directly for the World Cup. The bottom four teams of this tournament and the top two teams from the ICC ODI rankings progressed to the Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament. Each team played a total of eight three-match series, with four of them played at home, and four played away.

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were the two-time defending champions, having won the 2014–2016 ICC Women's Championship and the

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and the

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also competed in the first two editions of the Women's Championship. In September 2018, the

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(ICC) announced that they were exploring the option to expand the Women's Championship from eight teams to ten teams, therefore including

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and

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in future editions of the competition. It was originally decided that the

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would be used to determine the new teams, but when the tournament was called off midway through due to the discovery of a new variant of

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in Southern Africa, Bangladesh and Ireland joined the ICC Women's Championship for this cycle, based on their ODI rankings. In March 2022,

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was the first cricket board to confirm fixtures for the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship, when they announced Ireland's home series against South Africa for June 2022. Later in March 2022, the

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(PCB) confirmed three series, with two of those at home, against Sri Lanka and Ireland, and a tour to Australia. Pakistan's home series against Sri Lanka was the first series of the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship.

Teams

The following teams were part of the Women's Championship: * * * * * * * * * *

Schedule

The ICC announced the following home and away schedule for each team:

Points table

Fixtures

2022

Pakistan v Sri Lanka

Ireland v South Africa

Sri Lanka v India

England v India

2022–23

West Indies v New Zealand

Pakistan v Ireland

West Indies v England

New Zealand v Bangladesh

Australia v Pakistan

2023

Sri Lanka v Bangladesh

West Indies v Ireland

Sri Lanka v New Zealand

England v Australia

Bangladesh v India

Ireland v Australia

Pakistan v South Africa

England v Sri Lanka

2023–24

South Africa v New Zealand

Australia v West Indies

Bangladesh v Pakistan

New Zealand v Pakistan

South Africa v Bangladesh

Australia v South Africa

Bangladesh v Australia

New Zealand v England

South Africa v Sri Lanka

2024

Pakistan v West Indies

England v Pakistan

Sri Lanka v West Indies

India v South Africa

Ireland v Sri Lanka

Ireland v England

2024–25

India v New Zealand

Bangladesh v Ireland

South Africa v England

Australia v India

New Zealand v Australia

India v West Indies

India v Ireland

West Indies v Bangladesh

Statistics

Most runs

Most wickets

References

External links

Series home at ESPNcricinfo
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