Bangladesh to host 2024 Women’s T20 World Cup

Bangladesh had held the 2014 edition of the ICC Women's Twenty20 World CupAnis Mahmud

Bangladesh will host the 2024 edition of the ICC Women’s Twenty20 World Cup. International cricket’s governing body ICC has announced Bangladesh as the host after a board meeting in Birmingham, England on Tuesday.

In the meeting, ICC finalised the venues for all global women’s tournament for the 2024-2027 cycle.

Bangladesh has hosted the T20 World Cup once before, back in 2014. Back then, the men’s and women’s T20 World Cup used to be held simultaneously at the same country.

Bangladesh will get to host the tournament after a gap of 10 years
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The 2024 edition of the Women’s T20 World Cup will be held between September-October of that year. 10 teams will compete in the tournament and a total of 23 matches will take place.

Besides, the 2026 edition of the women’s T20 World Cup will be held in England. The 2025 ICC Women’s 50-over World Cup will take place in India.

Sri Lanka will host the first ever ICC Women’s Champions Trophy in 2027, if they can qualify for the tournament.

ICC also approved the Future Tour Programme (FTP) for the 2023-2027 cycle, which they will announce later.