The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday has awarded the one-day Internationals status to five associated teams – Scotland, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Netherlands, and the United States.
“Awarding ODI status to five additional teams will help us to accelerate the growth of the women’s game,” said ICC CEO Geoff Allardice.
“More teams playing more regularly creates a more competitive environment as we saw at the recent ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand.”
Recently, ICC also made an announcement about the inclusion of 2 new teams and make the 2022-25 Women’s ODI Championship, a ten team’s competition from 8. Ireland and Bangladesh were the teams that got included in the recent development because of the huge success of the ICC Women’s Championship in 2014-16 and 2017-20.
The team of Bangladesh, who are currently at 9th while Ireland, who are at 10th in the ODI Team Rankings will join India, England, Pakistan, Australia, South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand and Sri Lanka and in pursuit of automatic qualification for the Women’s World Cup 2025.
“Each team will play eight three-match series (four home and four away) over the next three years. At the end of the cycle, the top five teams and the hosts will book a berth for the World Cup in 2025, while the rest of the teams will have to go through the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier,” the governing body said in a release.
As per the format all teams have to play 8 match series in total, 4 home and 4 away series, in the next three years. After the completion of this 3-year cycle, the top five teams will directly advance to the Women’s ODI World Cup 2025, while the remaining teams will play in a global qualifier to book the berth for the final available slots.
The ICC Women’s Championship 2022-25 will start with the 3-match series between Sri Lanka and Pakistan from 1-5 June 2022.
