ICC T20 Women’s World Cup Winner 2024

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ICC T20 Women’s World Cup Winner 2024

The 2024 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. Originally scheduled to be hosted in Bangladesh from 3 to 20 October 2024, it was later relocated to the United Arab Emirates for the same dates due to political unrest in Bangladesh, although the Bangladesh Cricket Board still held the hosting rights. New Zealand won their first title defeating South Africa by 32 runs in the final at Dubai.

The tournament featured 10 teams, including the hosts, the top six teams from the 2023 edition, next highest-ranked team in the ICC Women’s T20I Team Rankings not already qualified, and two other teams determined through the global qualifier. Scotland qualified for the Women’s T20 World Cup for the first time.

Australia were the defending champions and were defeated in the semi-finals by South Africa. New Zealand won its maiden title by defeating West Indies in the semi-finals and South Africa in the final.

Background

The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup is a professional WT20I tournament held between women’s national cricket teams, organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The tournament, now being held every two years, was first played in 2009 in England. The last tournament held in 2023 in South Africa was contested by 10 teams. The defending champions were Australia, who defeated South Africa in the final of the previous edition.

Host selection

In December 2022, the ICC announced that the 2024 Women’s T20 World Cup would be played in Bangladesh. In August 2024, the ICC announced that the 2024 Women’s T20 World Cup would be played in the United Arab Emirates, with the Bangladesh Cricket Board remaining the official hosts.

Format

The 10 qualifying teams were divided into two groups of five teams; all the five teams in a group played with all the others – for a total of ten matches – and the top two teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage.

Schedule

On 28 July 2024, ICC announced that the tournament will be played from 3 to 20 October 2024. It was scheduled to be hosted in Bangladesh. However, it was later relocated to the United Arab Emirates for the same dates in August 2024. On 16 August 2024, ICC announced that warm-up fixtures will be held from 27 September to 1 October. However, on 27 August 2024, after the announcement of the revised schedule, the warm-up fixtures were scheduled to be held from 28 September to 1 October.

Prize money

The ICC allocated a pool of US$7,958,080 in prize money for the tournament. The winners would earn at least $2.34 million. In addition, each team will receive an additional $31,154 for each match they win excluding the semi-finals and final.

Prize money allocation for the 2024 WT20WC
Place	Teams	Amount
		Per team	Total
Champions	1	$2.34 million	$2.34 million
Runners-up	1	$1.17 million	$1.17 million
Semi-finalists	2	$675,000	$1.35 million
5th–10th place (Group stage)	6	$67,500	$405,000
Match winners	20	$31,154	$623,080
Total	10	$7,958,080

Qualification

 In April 2022, the ICC confirmed the qualification process for the tournament. The hosts, Bangladesh along with the top six teams from the 2023 tournament qualified automatically for the tournament. The remaining automatic qualification spot was taken by the best-ranked team in the ICC Women’s T20I Team Rankings which had not already qualified, as of 27 February 2023.^[7] The two remaining places were filled via the global qualifier, in which teams advanced from the regional qualifiers competed for it.

Scotland qualified for the Women’s T20 World Cup for the first time after defeating Ireland in the first semi-final of the qualifier. Sri Lanka became the second qualifier and reached their ninth T20 World Cup after defeating United Arab Emirates in the second semi-final. Overall, nine out of ten teams from 2023 reached the T20 World Cup, with the only difference being Scotland replacing Ireland.

Method of qualification	Berths	Teams
Hosts	1	Bangladesh
2023 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup (Top 6 teams from the previous tournament)	6	Australia
		England
		India
		South Africa
		New Zealand
		West Indies
ICC Women’s T20I Team Rankings	1	Pakistan
2024 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier	2	Scotland
		Sri Lanka
Total	10

Venues

In July 2022, the Bangladesh Cricket Board confirmed that two venues, Dhaka and Sylhet, would host the matches. Dhaka was to host the final, although Sylhet was originally meant to host the finals. Later, in August 2024, ICC announced that the United Arab Emirates will host the Women’s T20 World Cup instead of Bangladesh due to internal conflicts in Bangladesh, although the BCB will retain the hosting rights to the event. The matches are being played at Dubai and Sharjah.

Venues in the United Arab Emirates
Dubai	Dubai Sharjah	Sharjah
Dubai International Cricket Stadium		Sharjah Cricket Stadium
Capacity: 25,000		Capacity: 16,000
Matches: 12 (Semi-final and final)		Matches: 11 (Semi-final)

Squads

Each team was allowed to have a squad of 15 players with the provisional squad required to be submitted before the tournament. Pakistan were the first to name their squad on 25 August 2024. Australia followed a day after^. On 27th August, India and England announced their squads as well. West Indies announced their squad on 29 August 2024. Scotland announced their squad on 2 September 2024. South Africa announced their squad on 3 September 2024. New Zealand announced their squad on 10 September 2024. Bangladesh announced their squad on 18 September 2024. Sri Lanka became the final team to announce their squad on 20 September 2024.

Match officials

On 24 September 2024, the ICC appointed an all-woman panel of match officials made up of three match referees and ten umpires for the tournament.

Warm-up matches

Ten warm-up matches were played from 28 September to 1 October 2024. These matches did not have either WT20I status or WT20 status. The warm-up matches were played at The Sevens Stadium, ICC Academy Ground No. 1 and No. 2 in Dubai.

Semi-finals

South Africa’s Anneke Bosch (L) was awarded with the player of the match award in semi-final 1 for 74* and New Zealand’s Eden Carson (R) was awarded with the player of the match award in semi-final 2 for 3/29.

In the first semi-final, Australia took on South Africa at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on 17 October. Put into bat, Australia put up 134/5 with the help of Beth Mooney’s 44. In reply, South Africa chased it down in 17.2 overs, led by Anneke Bosch’s 74* and Laura Wolvaardt’s 42 to win by 8 wickets to reach their second consecutive final.

The second semi-final at Sharjah Cricket Stadium on 18 October saw West Indies battle it out against New Zealand. Batting first, New Zealand put on 128/9 with Deandra Dottin picking up 4/22 and then restricting West Indies to 120/8 with the help of Eden Carson’s 3/29 to win by 8 runs and reach the final for the first time since 2010.

17 October 2024 Scorecard

 

Australia 134/5 (20 overs)	v	South Africa 135/2 (17.2 overs)

 

South Africa won by 8 wickets Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai

18 October 2024 Scorecard

 

New Zealand 128/9 (20 overs)	v	West Indies 120/8 (20 overs)

 

Final

The final saw South Africa take on New Zealand at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai with both teams looking to win their maiden ICC Men’s or Women’s T20 Trophy.

Put into bat, New Zealand’s Georgia Plimmer hit two fours in the first over before being dismissed in the next over by Ayabonga Khaka. Suzie Bates scored 32 but was dismissed by Nonkululeko Mlaba. Sophie Devine was dismissed next for just 6 runs by Nadine de Klerk. Then a 57 run partnership between Amelia Kerr and Brooke Halliday took the score to 127 before Halliday was dismissed. Kerr was dismissed for 43. Maddy Green’s six in the last over, took New Zealand score to 158/5 after 20 overs. Mlaba was the pick of the bowlers taking 2/31 in 4 overs while Khaka, de Klerk and Tryon picked up one wicket each.

South Africa started the innings strongly with a partnership of 51 runs from 41 balls between Laura Wolvaardt and Tazmin Brits. Brits was dismissed in the 7th over by Fran Jonas. In the 10th over, Amelia Kerr struck twice first getting Wolvaardt for 33 in the first ball of the over and in the last ball dismissed Anneke Bosch for 9. Marizanne Kapp was the next to be dismissed by Eden Carson for 8 and in the very next ball Rosemary Mair dismissed Nadine de Klerk for 6 reducing South Africa to 77/5. Then, South Africa lost wickets at regular intervals, with Suné Luus dismissed for 8, Annerie Dercksen for 10, and Tryon for 14 ending their innings at 126/9 from 20 overs and New Zealand winning the match by 32 runs. Amelia Kerr and Rosemary Mair getting 3 wickets each for New Zealand.

New Zealand got third time lucky and winning their first ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. They lost the previous two finals in 2009 and 2010. This was also New Zealand first T20 World Cup title in men’s and women’s cricket.

 

 

Blog By : Trupti Thakur