Sports Desk: ICC on Monday has announced the schedule for the Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 which will be held in South Africa. Bangladesh and Ireland were the finalists of the qualifying round and qualified for the 10-team tournament.
The mega event is scheduled to begin on 10 February 2023 while the final match of the tournament will be played on 26 February 2023 with a reserve day available on the 27th in case of major interruptions in play on the designated date.
Cape Town, Paarl and Gqeberha will host the matches in the tournament with the knockout matches set to be played in Cape Town.
Bangladesh are in Group 1 and they will start their World Cup campaign against Sri Lanka on 12 February 2023. Later, the Tigresses will lock their horns with Australia, New Zealand and South Africa respectively on 14, 17 and 21 February 2023.
Five-time title winners and defending champions Australia are grouped alongside their Trans-Tasmanian rivals New Zealand and hosts South Africa in Group 1 for the Women’s T20 World Cup in 2023.
Group 1 also has Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, who recently won the Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier 2022 final by beating Ireland, the other qualified team who are in Group 2.
Ireland join England, India, West Indies and Pakistan in Group 2.
Group 1: Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh
Group 2: England, India, West Indies, Pakistan, Ireland
In the group games, which run until 21 February, each team will take on the other four teams in their group once. The top two teams in each group at the end of the group stage play the semi-finals.
