On Monday, the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that the Girls’s T20 World Cup will increase to 16 groups in 2030. The ICC additionally formally notified USA Cricket and Cricket Chile.
The ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup, beforehand referred to as the ICC Girls’s World Twenty20, is the biennial worldwide event for girls’s Twenty20 cricket. Organized by the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC), the inaugural occasion occurred in England in 2009.
ICC board approves enlargement to 16 groups in Girls’s T20 World Cup
In an announcement, the ICC board confirmed its approval on growing the variety of groups within the Girls’s T20 World Cup. “The ICC Board has accredited the rise to 16 groups for the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup in 2030, reflecting our ongoing dedication to gender fairness in cricket,” acknowledged the ICC in its announcement.
Within the inaugural 2009 event, eight groups competed, with England claiming the title. The variety of groups elevated to 10 and can rise to 12 for the 2026 version, set to be held in England, and can increase to 16 in 2030. The ICC additionally introduced that the qualification deadline for the 2026 event will likely be October 31 of this 12 months.
Overview of the Males’s T20 World Cup 2024? What else occurred on the ICC board convention 2024
Within the assertion, the ICC additionally introduced that USA Cricket and Cricket Chile have been formally placed on discover. They’ve 12 months to rectify their non-compliance with ICC Membership Standards, resulting from deficiencies of their governance and administrative constructions and programs.
The ICC Board additionally introduced {that a} evaluate of the just lately concluded ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2024 will likely be carried out by administrators Roger Twose, Lawson Naidoo, and Imran Khwaja, who will report their findings to the board later this 12 months. Moreover, on the ICC Annual Convention, the CEC accredited Paul Reiffel’s appointment as an Elite Panel Umpire on the ICC Males’s Cricket Committee. The CEC additionally confirmed Richie Richardson as an Elite Panel Referee on the Committee.
The Chief Executives’ Committee (CEC) additionally introduced the allocation of eight regional qualifying spots for the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2026. Below the brand new construction, two groups will qualify from Africa and Europe, one from the Americas, and three from a mixed Asia and East Asia-Pacific (EAP) regional remaining. Beforehand, Asia had two spots and EAP had one.
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