ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 schedule announced

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The ICC has announced the schedule of the Women’s World Cup 2017 to be played from June 24th to 23rd July in England. The matches will be played in four venues at Bristol County Ground, The County Ground , Derby, Grace Road, Leicester and Lords Cricket Ground. Each team will play the other team once in the group stages which will go on till 15th July 2017.
New Zealand will take on Sri Lanka in the first match of the tournament on 24th June at Bristol. India starts their tournament with tough match against England on the same day at Derby. It promises to be a mouthwatering clash between top eight teams of the world in world cricket. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and South Africa qualified after finishing in the top four of ICC qualifying tournament held in Sri Lanka.

The Indian team will play four league games in Derby especially the toughest match against arch rivals Pakistan on 2nd July. India will face West Indies in Taunton, Australia in Bristol and South Africa in Leicester.

Australia is the defending champions of the tournament and will start their title defense against West Indies on 26th June at Taunton. 28 matches will take place over 21 days in round robin matches which will be followed by semi-finals at Bristol and Derby on 18th and 20th respectively. The final will be at Lords on 23rd July.

"We are anticipating an exciting tournament and I know the players are looking forward to competing here in front of unprecedented levels of support.


“After the extremely successful qualifying tournament in Sri Lanka last month, we can already see that there will be some fiercely contested fixtures as the standard and competitiveness of women's cricket continues to rise," he said.


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