2021 Women's Cricket World Cup


The 2021 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup will be the twelfth edition of the Women's Cricket World Cup and is scheduled to be held in New Zealand between 6 February and 7 March 2021. In April 2020, the International Cricket Council confirmed that despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was still planned to go ahead as scheduled.
New Zealand qualified automatically as hosts. Originally, it was announced that three more teams would qualify from the ongoing 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship, but in 2018 this was changed to four teams plus the hosts. The top three teams from a ten-team qualifier will also play in this edition of the Women's World Cup. However, on 12 May 2020, the ICC confirmed that the qualifier tournament had been postponed, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, the ICC said that a further announcement on the future of the tournament is scheduled to be made the following month.

Qualification

TeamMode of qualification
Hosts
Women's Championship
Women's Championship
Women's Championship
Women's Championship
TBDWorld Cup Qualifier
TBDWorld Cup Qualifier
TBDWorld Cup Qualifier

Venues

On 11 March 2020, the International Cricket Council announced the six venues for the 2021 Women's World Cup. Hagley Oval hosted the final. Five other venues, to be used for the league stage and semifinals, are Eden Park, Seddon Park, Bay Oval, University Oval and Basin Reserve.
ChristchurchAucklandTaurangaHamiltonWellingtonDunedin
Hagley OvalEden ParkBay OvalSeddon ParkBasin ReserveUniversity Oval
Capacity: 18,000Capacity: 42,000Capacity: 10,000Capacity: 10,000Capacity: 11,600Capacity: 3,500

Matches

A total of 31 matches including the semi-finals and a final will be played, with all the matches being broadcast live. The opening match will be played at Eden Park, Auckland. The two semi-finals will be played at Seddon Park, Hamilton and Bay Oval, Tauranga, with the final match played at Hagley Oval, Christchurch.

Group stage

On 11 March 2020, it was announced that in the Group Stage, eight sides will participate in a single-league format with each side playing the other once. This format was last used in the 2017 tournament. The top four sides following the conclusion of the league matches will progress to the semi-finals with the winners meeting at the Hagley Oval on 7 March 2021. Therefore, a total of 31 matches will be played during the 29-day tournament.

Round 1

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Round 2

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Round 3

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Round 4

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Round 5

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Round 6

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Round 7

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Knockout stage

Semi-finals

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Final