ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2021: Full match schedule, timings, venue details of CWC in New Zealand
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On Wednesday, the International Cricket Council has announced the schedule for the 2021 Women’s Cricket World Cup starting from February 6, 2020 (Saturday). The first match will be kicked off by New Zealand in a Qualifier at Eden Park in Auckland. This is the twelfth edition of the competition and four teams have already qualified for the summit event with the other four spots up for grabs.
As a host country, New Zealand has already made it to the tournament along with defending champions Australia.
England and South Africa are the other two teams in the competition while the remaining teams will be confirmed after the conclusion of the ICC Women’s Championship and the qualifying event in Sri Lanka in July 2020.
ICC Cricket World Cups has tweeted the full schedule of the event.
ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2021 Schedule:
The finals of ICC Women World Cup 2020 will be held at Hagley Oval in Christchurch.
Some other stadiums line up for the tournament include Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
The competition will see all the qualified teams face each other once in the league stage and then the top four teams will advance into the semi-finals.
The team topping leagues will take on the fourth-placed teams while the second and third-placed teams in the table will be battling it out among themselves.
Tournament fixtures by venue:
Eden Park, Auckland
Saturday, 6 Feb – New Zealand v QUALIFIER
Sunday, 7 Feb – Australia v England
University Oval, Dunedin
Sunday, 7 Feb – QUALIFIER v QUALIFIER
Tuesday, 9 Feb – NZ v QUALIFIER
Saturday, 13 Feb – QUALIFIER v England
Sunday, 14 Feb – QUALIFIER v South Africa
Seddon Park, Hamilton
Monday, 8 Feb – QUALIFIER v South Africa
Wednesday, 10 Feb – England v QUALIFIER
Thursday, 11 Feb – QUALIFIER v South Africa
Saturday, 20 Feb – New Zealand v South Africa
Wednesday, 24 Feb – QUALIFIER v Australia
Friday, 26 Feb – South Africa v Australia
Thursday, 4 March – Semi-final 2 (2v3)
Bay Oval, Tauranga
Wednesday, 10 Feb – Australia v QUALIFIER
Sunday, 14 Feb – QUALIFIER v QUALIFIER
Wednesday, 17 Feb – New Zealand v QUALIFIER
Sunday, 21 Feb – England v QUALIFIER
Sunday, 28 Feb – QUALIFIER v QUALIFIER
Wednesday, 3 March – Semi-Final 1 (1v4)
Basin Reserve, Wellington
Saturday, 13 Feb – New Zealand v Australia
Tuesday, 16 Feb – Australia v QUALIFIER
Wednesday, 17 Feb – South Africa v England
Tuesday, 23 Feb – South Africa v QUALIFIER
Thursday, 25 Feb – New Zealand v QUALIFIER
Saturday, 27 Feb – QUALIFIER v QUALIFIER
Hagley Oval, Christchurch
Thursday, 18 Feb – QUALIFIER v QUALIFIER
Saturday, 20 Feb – QUALIFIER v QUALIFIER
Sunday, 21 Feb – QUALIFIER v Australia
Wednesday, 24 Feb – England v QUALIFIER
Sunday, 28 Feb – New Zealand v England
Sunday, 7 March – Final
Hamilton’s Seddon Park will be hosting the most number of games including seven games which are the most in the tournament including the second semi-final clash as well.
Hagley Oval in Christchurch, Bay Oval in Tauranga and Basin Reserve in Wellington will host six games in the competition.