Dubai: India will open their campaign in the rescheduled Women’s ODI World Cup against a qualifier on March 6, 2022 at Tauranga’s Bay Oval in New Zealand, according to the 31-match schedule announced by the ICC on Tuesday.
India have two more matches against qualifiers on March 12 and March 22 at Seddon park, Hamilton in the eight-team round-robin format event.
Among the marquee games, Tauranga will host the rematch of the 2017 Women’s World Cup final at Lord’s with India taking on England on March 16.
India will then face Australia at Eden Park, Auckland on March 19, before locking horns with South Africa on March 27 at Hagley Oval, Christchurch.
The event, which was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic from its original window in February-March 2021 with the same six host cities and venues retained, will be held between March 4 and April 3, 2022.
The first global women’s cricket event to be played since the T20 World Cup in Australia in March, it will feature eight of the world’s best nations going head-to-head across Auckland, Tauranga, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin.
“We have all been through a very difficult year and are happy to be getting back at playing the game we all love,” India captain Mithali Raj said in an ICC release.
“India has been doing very well at ICC tournaments in the past three or four years, whether you talk about the (ODI) World Cup or the recently concluded T20 World Cup.
“… if we manage to win the tournament in 2022, it will be a massive inspiration for the next generation of girls, as the fifty-over format, is considered the pinnacle for any cricketer. I can assure you the team and I are looking forward to it.”
According to the schedule, the Basin Reserve in Wellington and the Hagley Oval in Christchurch will host the semi-finals with the latter also set to to host the final under lights on April 3, 2022.
The tournament-opener will be held in Tauranga featuring the White Ferns and a qualifier on March 4.
Besides India, New Zealand, Australia, England and South Africa have qualified for the World Cup. The three remaining teams will emerge from the ICC qualifying tournament which will be held from June 26 to July 10 in Sri Lanka next year.
It will be the first of two major cricket tournaments across the globe in 2022 the other being the Commonwealth Games in England.
“This schedule takes the world’s best cricketers across New Zealand and can help inspire a generation of girls and boys to take up the game,” ICC CEO, Manu Sawhney said.
The prize money for the showpiece will total NZD 5.5 million, an increase of almost 60 percent on 2017 and more than 1000 percent compared to 2013.
All matches will be broadcast live to a huge global audience.
“The last five years have seen significant progress in women’s Cricket and recent success of the Women’s T20 challenge is an indicator of the same,” Sanjog Gupta, Head of Star India which will broadcast the event, said.
“The broadcast of the ICC Women’s World Cup has grown leaps and bounds. The 2017 ICC Women’s World Cup Final, one of the highest-rated sporting events of that year with a cumulative reach of 95 million, is testament to the growing fandoms for women’s cricket in India,” he added.
ICC Women’s World Cup 2022 fixtures by venue:
(*denotes day/night)
Bay Oval, Tauranga
Fri Mar 04
New Zealand v Qualifier*
Sun Mar 06
Qualifier v India*
Tue Mar 08
Australia v Qualifier *
Fri Mar 11
Qualifier v South Africa*
Mon Mar 14
South Africa v England*
Wed Mar 16
England v India*
Fri
Mar 18
Qualifier v Qualifier
University Oval, Dunedin
Sat
Mar 05
Qualifier v South Africa
Mon Mar 07
New Zealand v Qualifier
Wed Mar 09
Qualifier v England
Seddon Park, Hamilton
Sat Mar 05
Australia v England*
Thu Mar 10
New Zealand v India*
Sat Mar 12
Thu Mar 17
New Zealand v South Africa*
Mon Mar 21
Qualifier v Qualifier*
Tue Mar 22
India v Qualifier*
Basin Reserve, Wellington
Sun Mar 13
New Zealand v Australia
Tue Mar 15
Australia v Qualifier
South Africa v Australia
Thu Mar 24
South Africa v Qualifier
Fri Mar 25
Qualifier v Australia
Sun Mar 27
England v Qualifier
Wed Mar 30
Semi-Final 1
Eden Park, Auckland
Sat Mar 19
India v Australia*
Sun Mar 20
New Zealand v England
Hagley Oval, Christchurch
England v Qualifier*
Sat Mar 26
India v South Africa*
Thu Mar 31
Semi-Final 2*
Sun Apr 03
FINAL*. (PTI)
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