India will host the inaugural ICC Ladies’s Champions Trophy in 2027, with the six-team event relocated from its initially designated host Sri Lanka. The event is scheduled to happen from February 14 to twenty-eight, 2027, marking a major addition to India’s calendar of main girls’s cricket occasions.The competitors will characteristic six groups and will likely be performed within the T20I format, with a complete of 16 matches. India, Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa and Sri Lanka have certified for the event primarily based on the ICC Ladies’s T20I Crew Rankings.
Mumbai, Vadodara to host matches
The event will likely be performed throughout two venues, the Cricket Membership of India (CCI) in Mumbai and the Vadodara Worldwide Cricket Stadium. All six groups will compete in a round-robin league stage, with the highest two sides advancing to the ultimate.
Sri Lanka misplaced internet hosting rights over governance issues
Sri Lanka had initially been awarded internet hosting rights for the event. Nonetheless, the ICC Board subsequently authorized the transfer to India following a number analysis course of. Sri Lanka Cricket stays beneath a government-appointed committee, which the ICC considers a violation of its rules regarding authorities or political interference within the administration of cricket.India emerged because the profitable bidder after competing proposals from Bangladesh and South Africa had been thought of.“The ICC Ladies’s Champions Trophy 2027 marks an thrilling new chapter for girls’s cricket,” ICC Chairman Jay Shah mentioned.“Because the inaugural version of the event, it would deliver collectively the most effective groups on the planet in an intense, high-quality competitors, whereas creating even larger incentive for groups to proceed rising by way of the rankings and competing for a spot on the worldwide stage,” he added.Jay Shah additionally highlighted the ICC’s plans to create a stronger rhythm for girls’s worldwide cricket by way of an everyday calendar of main occasions.“With a marquee ICC girls’s occasion now happening yearly, we now have a major alternative to construct larger momentum, present extra consistency and create a stronger rhythm for the ladies’s recreation, its gamers and its followers all over the world,” he mentioned.
