The 2025 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier was an international

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tournament that was held in

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in April 2025. The tournament served as the final stage of the qualification process for the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup that is scheduled to be held in

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. The tournament was the sixth edition of the

Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier The ICC Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier is an international cricket tournament that serves as the final step of the qualification process for the Women's Cricket World Cup. The Women's World Cup was first held in 1973, and for the first se ...

, with the fixtures played as

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matches. The ICC announced the format of the qualifier in 2022. The bottom four teams (7th–10th) from the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship were joined by two other teams selected according to the Women's ODI Team Rankings in a 6-team tournament.

won the qualifier.

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also qualified for the World Cup, after finishing ahead of the

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by a

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margin of just 0.013.

Qualification

The following teams qualified for the tournament:

Squads

Ellen Watson withdrew from Scotland's squad due to personal reasons and was replaced by Maryam Faisal. On 10 April, Darcey Carter was ruled out of the tournament after sustaining an injury to her right hand, with Kirsty McColl was added into the Scotland squad as a replacement.

Match officials

On 3 April 2025, the ICC appointed a panel of match officials made up of three

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s and ten

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s for the tournament. ; Match referees ; Umpires

Warm-up matches

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Group stage

Points table

Fixtures

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Team of the tournament

On 20 April 2025, the ICC announced its team of the tournament. * Hayley Matthews * Muneeba Ali * Sharmin Akhter * Kathryn Bryce * Nigar Sultana ( wk) * Fatima Sana ( c) * Chinelle Henry * Aaliyah Alleyne * Katherine Fraser * Nashra Sandhu * Sadia Iqbal * Rabeya Khan (12th woman)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:World Cup 2025-26

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