India will host the inaugural ICC Ladies’s Champions Trophy in 2027, with Mumbai and Vadodara set to stage the six-team match from February 14 to twenty-eight. The Cricket Membership of India in Mumbai and the Vadodara Worldwide Cricket Stadium will host the landmark competitors, which is able to function Australia, England, India, New Zealand, South Africa and Sri Lanka, the ICC introduced on Wednesday, September 2.
Pakistan won’t be a part of the match. The six taking part groups certified primarily based on their positions within the ICC Ladies’s T20I Group Rankings as of the July 6 deadline. The match will comply with a round-robin format, with every group going through the opposite 5 sides. The highest two groups on the finish of the league stage will advance to the ultimate on February 28.
The tournament was originally awarded to Sri Lanka, however its internet hosting rights have now been transferred to India as Sri Lanka Cricket continues to implement governance reforms outlined by the ICC.
The ICC Board had raised issues over Sri Lanka Cricket’s governance at its Annual Convention in July. It famous that SLC was making progress in the direction of adopting a revised structure, whereas additionally stressing the necessity for elections to be held as quickly as attainable. Sri Lanka Cricket was additionally saved from being represented at ICC Board conferences in the interim.
The ICC assessed three potential substitute hosts, Bangladesh, India and South Africa, towards its established host analysis standards earlier than recommending India. The choice was subsequently ratified by the ICC Board on September 2.
KEY POINTS
1. Mumbai and Vadodara will host the six-team match in February 2027.
2. The Cricket Membership of India in Mumbai and Vadodara Worldwide Cricket Stadium to host matches.
3. The inaugural version of the Ladies’s Champions Trophy can be performed in T20I format.
4. India and Sri Lanka are the one two Asian groups, no Pakistan within the match.
5. The match was initially set to be hosted by Sri Lanka.
The transfer provides India one other alternative to stage a serious ladies’s cricket occasion after internet hosting the 2025 Ladies’s Cricket World Cup. It additionally provides one other vital competitors to the ladies’s cricket calendar, with the Champions Trophy forming a part of the ICC’s effort to have a serious ladies’s occasion yearly.
ICC Chairman Jay Shah stated the inaugural version would carry collectively one of the best groups in an “intense, high-quality competitors” whereas offering an added incentive for groups to climb the rankings and compete on the worldwide stage.
“With a marquee ICC ladies’s occasion now going down yearly, we’ve got 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 world wide,” he stated.
This would be the fourth main ICC match hosted by India in 4 years. The lads’s ODI World Cup in 2023, the Ladies’s World Cup in 2025 and the boys’s T20 World Cup all noticed India attain the ultimate, with the hosts successful the latter two.
– Ends
