The ICC Women's Champions Trophy is an upcoming quadrennial international
cricket
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tournament organised by the
International Cricket Council
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. The first edition of the tournament will take place in 2027 in
Sri Lanka
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, with matches being played in the
T20I
Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of Twenty20 cricket, in which each team plays a single innings with a maximum of twenty overs. The matches are played between international teams recognized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). ...
format.
History
The ICC Women's Champions Trophy was announced on 8 March 2021, on
International Women's Day
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in the events list for the ICC 2024/31 cycle.
The competition will include six teams.
On 26 July 2022, Sri Lanka was announced as the first hosts of this tournament, as long as they qualify.
Background
On 13 November 2024, The ICC launched a new
visual identity
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for the Champions Trophy with the release of a launch video.
Format
The tournament will consists of 16 games in which six teams will play each other in a
round-robin format, with the top two teams advancing to the final.
See also
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ICC Women's Championship
The ICC Women's Championship (IWC) is an international cricket tournament used to determine qualification for the Women's Cricket World Cup. The first two tournaments were contested between the top eight teams of the ICC Women's Rankings. T ...
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ICC Women's Cricket World Cup
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ICC Women's T20 World Cup
The Women's T20 World Cup is the biennial international championship for women's Twenty20 International cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council, with the first edition having been held i ...
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ICC Champions Trophy
The ICC Champions Trophy, formerly known as the ICC Knock Out Trophy, is an international One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) contested by international men's teams.
Inaugurat ...
References
External links
{{International cricket
Twenty20
Twenty20 (abbreviated T20) is a shortened format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the county cricket, inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two t ...
Recurring sporting events established in 2021
World championships in cricket
Women's Twenty20 cricket international competitions