The Girls’s Premier League (WPL) can be performed in January-February from 2026, whereas the Hundred (August) and WBBL (November) have been allotted devoted home windows within the new girls’s Future Excursions Programme for the 2025-29 cycle.
The BCCI shifting the WPL has resulted in Cricket Australia pushing again its girls’s marquee summer time fixtures from mid-January to February-March to keep away from a conflict with essentially the most profitable girls’s franchise league.
The 2024-25 girls’s Ashes, which begins on January 12, would be the final worldwide matches Australia will host in January till 2029. The primary of Australia’s marquee house collection of their new window is a tour by India for one Take a look at, three ODIs, and three T20Is after the WPL in January-February 2026.
The ICC Girls’s ODI Championship has been expanded to 11 groups within the new FTP with the addition of Zimbabwe. This follows the addition of Bangladesh and Eire to the continued cycle that can culminate with subsequent 12 months’s ODI World Cup in India in October. Zimbabwe’s inclusion means all of ICC’s Full Members besides Afghanistan, who do not subject a girls’s staff, are a part of the championship.
With the enlargement of the Girls’s Championship, every nation will play 4 groups at house and 4 away over a three-year cycle. Of their maiden look within the upcoming cycle, Zimbabwe will host South Africa, West Indies, Eire and Sri Lanka and can tour India, New Zealand, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
As anticipated, India and Pakistan will solely play one another in world tournaments within the new FTP, and never in bilateral collection.
In one other addition that has been largely members-driven, groups have scheduled tri-series as a part of their preparation for ICC occasions throughout this cycle.
“Forward of the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup 2026, England will host India and New Zealand for such a three-team T20I match whereas Eire will host Pakistan and the West Indies,” ICC normal supervisor Wasim Khan stated. “Sri Lanka and the West Indies are amongst different Members scheduled to host tri-series, in 2027 and 2028, respectively.”
A T20 Champions Trophy for girls
The ICC has launched a T20 Champions Trophy – to be held in Sri Lanka in 2027 – as a part of its strategic plan to have at the very least one girls’s international match every year. This new match will characteristic six groups and can comprise 16 matches. The addition of this match to the ladies’s calendar means there can be three international occasions – together with the LA Olympics (August 2028) and T20 World Cup (September 2028) – over a 12-month interval.
This takes the rely of all ICC senior girls’s occasions within the new FTP cycle to 5: two T20 World Cups (2026 and 2028), two ODI World Cups (2025 and 2029), and a T20 Champions Trophy in 2027.
The ODI World Cup may have 10 groups taking part in 48 matches from 2029 (up from eight groups, and 31 matches, until 2025), the T20 World Cup can be expanded to 12 groups taking part in 33 matches from 2026 (up from 10 groups and 23 matches until 2024).
West Indies to play Assessments after 20 years
A complete of 15 girls’s Assessments have been included on this cycle, with West Indies set to return to the format after greater than 20 years. They host Australia for one Take a look at as a part of a multi-format collection in March 2026, play England in one other at house in April 2027, and can play a Take a look at in South Africa in December 2028.
West Indies final performed a Take a look at in 2003-04, in opposition to Pakistan, and have solely performed 12 girls’s Assessments in all. India, in the meantime, will play Australia and South Africa in away Assessments in 2026, whereas additionally internet hosting Australia and England later within the cycle.
Having toured Australia for what was solely their second girls’s Take a look at in practically a decade, South Africa will host Australia for a Take a look at for the primary time in March-April 2027. The brand new FTP concludes in 2029 with the ODI World Cup, the venue for which is but to be introduced.
Shashank Kishore is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
