The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) has formally confirmed that the subsequent version of the Girls’s ODI World Cup, scheduled for 2029, will function ten groups, marking a major step ahead within the world improvement of girls’s cricket. The choice builds on the match’s rising recognition and success, with the 2025 version drawing report audiences and widespread engagement.
The ICC had first introduced its intention to broaden the ladies’s sport again in 2021 on Worldwide Girls’s Day, outlining a roadmap to supply extra aggressive alternatives for rising nations. Since 2000, solely eight groups have featured in the primary draw of the Girls’s ODI World Cup. Nevertheless, the brand new format will enable two extra groups to compete on the world stage, creating area for creating cricket nations.
The 2029 match will even see a considerable improve within the variety of matches, from 31 in the latest version to 48. The ICC additionally introduced that the Girls’s T20 World Cup, set to happen subsequent 12 months, might be expanded to 12 groups, up from the ten that competed within the earlier version held within the UAE.
“Practically 300,000 followers watched the occasion in stadia breaking the report for match attendance for any girls’s Cricket occasion. The match additionally witnessed viewership development and new data being set for on-screen audiences internationally with almost 500 million viewers in India,” the ICC launch mentioned as quoted by ESPNcricinfo.
The ICC Board additionally ratified the appointment of a number of new members to the ICC Girls’s Cricket Committee, together with Ashley De Silva, Mithali Raj, Amol Muzumdar, Ben Sawyer, Charlotte Edwards, and Sala Stella Siale-Vaea.
ICC begins bidding for cell cricket sport
As well as, the ICC confirmed that it’s going to provoke a bidding course of for its official cell cricket sport. The undertaking has been on the centre of ongoing tensions between the governing physique and the World Cricketers’ Affiliation (WCA), and the brand new tender course of goals to convey higher transparency and construction to its improvement and administration.
“The ICC Board confirmed its approval to concern an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for Video Gaming Rights, opening the door for main world companions to collaborate with the ICC in delivering world-class, digital fan experiences,” the board mentioned within the assertion.
The dispute between the ICC and the WCA has centred on the difficulty of gamers’ Title, Picture, and Likeness (NIL) rights. The WCA has argued that any try by the ICC to develop a cell cricket sport that includes actual gamers would represent a breach of current agreements, because the affiliation at the moment holds NIL rights for round 600 gamers and has already entered the gaming market.
Earlier this 12 months, the ICC dominated that particular person member boards can be accountable for negotiating NIL rights straight with their gamers, relatively than via the WCA. The ICC launched an Expression of Curiosity (EOI) course of for the cell cricket sport in June. Nevertheless, progress has been sluggish as member boards proceed to barter with their gamers to finalise NIL agreements.
It stays unclear what number of boards have efficiently secured the required rights, although early estimates recommend that no less than half of the Full Member nations have reached preliminary understandings.
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