Pakistan ladies cricket staff huddled throughout a match. — PCB/File
DUBAI: The Worldwide Cricket Council on Monday confirmed the schedule and venues for the thirteenth version of the Ladies’s Cricket World Cup 2025, with Pakistan to play all their matches in Sri Lanka.
The World Cup would start from September 30 to November 2 throughout 5 venues in India and Sri Lanka as per the announcement by ICC.
The shortlisted venues for the eight-team match included: M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru; ACA Stadium in Guwahati; Holkar Stadium in Indore; ACA-VDCA Stadium in Visakhapatnam and R. Premdasa Stadium in Colombo.
In the meantime, Pakistan would play all of their group-stage matches in Sri Lanka in mild of the ‘fusion formula’, adopted forward of the ICC Males’s Champions Trophy 2025, which says that each arch-rivals won’t go to one another for an ICC occasion for the subsequent three years and can as an alternative play their matches at a impartial venue.
Because of this, the primary semi-final of the eight-team match can be performed both in Guwahati or Colombo on October 29, whereas the next knockout fixture would happen in Bengaluru the next day.
The ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup 2025 last was scheduled to be performed on November 2 in Bengaluru; nevertheless, if Pakistan qualify, then it is going to be held in Colombo.
Eight groups can be taking part in matches co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka. Together with host international locations’ groups, it included Australia, Pakistan, England, New Zealand, South Africa and Bangladesh.
Australia would enter the match because the defending champions, having overwhelmed England within the final version’s last in 2022.
They’re additionally probably the most profitable facet within the historical past of the match, successful the distinguished silverware on seven events.
