India will host Australia and England in high-profile dwelling collection because the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday gave significance to Take a look at matches and bilateral rubbers whereas asserting ladies’s cricket Future Excursions Programme (FTP) for the 2025-29 cycle.
Aside from the storied rivals, India may even face Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, who was unveiled because the 11th member of the FTP, at dwelling throughout the four-year interval.
The Girls in Blue may even journey to New Zealand, West Indies, Eire and South Africa on this section as every member nations are scheduled to play 4 collection at dwelling and overseas.
Aside from this, India may even characteristic in a tri-series in England forward of the 2026 ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup, the third group being reigning champions New Zealand.
England will host the 2026 Girls’s T20 World Cup.
“Members have additionally penciled in additional Take a look at matches this time, with Australia, England, India, South Africa and the West Indies all agreeing to play multi-format collection that embody ODIs and T20Is,” stated Wasim Khan, ICC Basic Supervisor of Cricket, in a media launch.
“Australia will play the utmost such collection – two every in opposition to England, India and South Africa and one in opposition to the West Indies,” he stated.
The members have scheduled, by mutual settlement, tri-series as preparation for ICC occasions on 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 event whereas Eire will host Pakistan and the West Indies. Sri Lanka and the West Indies are amongst different Members scheduled to host tri-series, in 2027 and 2028, respectively,” Khan added.
The FTP additionally outlined the fixtures for the fourth version of the ICC Girls’s Championship.
The 2025-29 cycle, set to form the lineup for the 2029 Girls’s Cricket World Cup, will broaden to characteristic 11 groups — with yet another than the present 10 — with Zimbabwe becoming a member of the total member sides.
“Notably, Zimbabwe will make their debut within the event, marking a big step towards broader international illustration in ladies’s cricket,” he stated.
“The Girls’s Championship, which has been instrumental in making certain extra worldwide cricket since its inception in 2014, sees the variety of taking part groups go as much as 11 with Zimbabwe added to the 10 competing within the ongoing third version that included Bangladesh and Eire for the primary time.”
In its maiden look on the event, Zimbabwe will host South Africa, West Indies, Eire and Sri Lanka and can tour India, New Zealand, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
The second ladies’s FTP, that runs from Could 2025 to April 2029, guarantees extra worldwide ladies’s cricket motion throughout all codecs, with greater than 400 matches making certain aggressive motion.
In all, 132 ODIs will likely be performed in 44 collection of three matches every, lending context by means of a qualification pathway to the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup in 2029 and giving members the prospect to membership matches of different codecs with these excursions.
“All codecs present a considerable improve from the earlier cycle (2022-2025) and this FTP sees an ICC occasion every year with the inaugural six-team Champions Trophy scheduled for 2027.
“The opposite ICC occasions throughout the interval are the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup in 2025 (India), the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup in 2026 (the UK) and the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup in 2028 (host but to be introduced).
“The Girls’s Championship will see all groups competing in opposition to eight different groups like within the ongoing version, 4 collection at dwelling and 4 away,” the discharge added.
