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2025 Women's Cricket World Cup Preview
In this Women's Cricket World Cup blog, we will look ahead to the 2025 tournament, last at past winners and statistics and also give you links to where you will be able to find the Women's Cricket World Cup betting tips.
The 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup, which will be co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka, will feature eight countries' competition over thirty-one matches.
The tournament takes place every four years. The 2021 tournament, however, due to circumstances, was postponed and then rescheduled to take place in 2022, meaning only three years between that and the 2025 tournament.
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Women's Cricket World Cup Format
As already briefly mentioned, there will be a total of eight countries competing at the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup, and they will make up a total of thirty-one matches to be played in the space of around thirty days.
The tournament starts off with all eight countries in one group. There will be seven rounds, which will result in each country playing the other seven countries once. After the seven rounds, the top four will advance into the knock-out stages.
The games will be hosted at four Indian cricket grounds as well as one in Sri Lanka, which will be used to accommodate Pakistan due to the ICC ruling that any matches involving Pakistan cannot be played within India.
Cricket Venues to be used in India
- M. Chinnaswamy Stadium (Bengaluru) - 40,000
- Assam Cricket Association Stadium (Guwahati) - 46,000
- ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium (Visakhapatnam) - 27,500
- Holkar Stadium (Indore) - 30,000
Cricket Venue to be used in Sri Lanka
- R. Premadasa Stadium (Colombo) - 35,000
Women's Cricket World Cup Teams
The eight teams for the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup have qualified via three different routes. First of all, India gets an automatic spot in the tournament as the primary host.
Five teams have qualified via the 2022–2025 ICC Women's Championship, with the top 5 teams advancing; however, because India finished second and already had a spot, the team in 6th place also qualified.
The four teams that occupied the bottom four spots went into the qualifiers to gain a spot, from which Bangladesh and Pakistan booked their spots.
| Country | Qualification Route | Best Finish |
|---|---|---|
| India | Host | Runners-Up (x2) |
| Australia | 1st (ICC Women's Championship) | Champions (x7) |
| England | 3rd (ICC Women's Championship) | Champions (x4) |
| South Africa | 4th (ICC Women's Championship) | Semi-Finals (x3) |
| Sri Lanka | 5th (ICC Women's Championship) | Quarter-Finals |
| New Zealand | 6th (ICC Women's Championship) | Champions |
| Pakistan | 1st (Qualifying) | Super 6s |
| Bangladesh | 2nd (Qualifying) | First Round |
Women's Cricket World Cup Betting Tips
During the tournament, the OLBG cricket tipsters will have you covered. Over on the main cricket tips page, you will find Women's Cricket World Cup Predictions over the thirty days from all of the group matches through to the final.
Each match will be listed on that page along with the most tipped outcome for the match. Additionally, you can click on the match and you will be redirected to the match page, where you can see all of the cricket predictions for the game from the match-winner, the man of the match and the top batsman too.
Alternatively, if you only want to see tips from the profitable cricket tipsters, then head over to the Best Cricket Tipsters page. We only highlight tipsters who have open predictions on cricket and have shown a profit for the cricket predictions over the past year.
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Women's Cricket World Cup Past Winners
Australia are the most successful team to have lifted the trophy in seven of the previous twelve tournaments, the next best is England, which has won it on four occasions; that means those two countries have won all bar one of the tournaments. New Zealand are the only other country to win, having won it when hosting in 2000.
Here are the last ten Women's Cricket World Cup Winners
| Year/Host | Winner/Runner-Up | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 New Zealand | Australia - 356/5 (50 overs) England - 285 (43.4 overs) | Australia won by 71 runs |
| 2017 England | England - 228/7 (50 overs) India - 219 (48.4 overs) | England won by 9 runs |
| 2013 India | Australia - 259/7 (50 overs) West Indies - 145 (43.1 overs) | Australia won by 114 runs |
| 2009 Australia | England - 167/6 (46.1 overs) New Zealand - 166 (47.2 overs) | England won by 4 wickets |
| 2005 South Africa | Australia - 215/4 (50 overs) India - 117 (46 overs) | Australia won by 98 runs |
| 2000 New Zealand | New Zealand - 184 (48.4 overs) Australia - 180 (49.1 overs) | New Zealand won by 4 runs |
| 1997 India | Australia - 165/5 (47.4 overs) New Zealand - 164 (49.3 overs) | Australia won by 5 wickets |
| 1993 England | England - 195/5 (60 overs) New Zealand - 128 (55.1 overs) | England won by 67 runs |
| 1988 Australia | Australia - 129/2 (44.5 overs) England - 127/7 (60 overs) | Australia won by 8 wickets |
| 1982 New Zealand | Australia - 152/7 (59 overs) England - 151/5 (60 overs) | Australia won by 3 wickets |
Women's Cricket World Cup Statistics
Considering they have won the tournament the most, it's no surprise to see Australia with the best win rate at the tournament, and they are followed by England, who have won the second most titles.
New Zealand, which has one title to its name, has the third-best win rate, whilst India has a win rate of over 52% despite never lifting the trophy. Bangladesh only made their debut in 2022.
Team Performances at the Women's World Cup:
| Team | Total | Matches | Won-Lost-Tie-NC | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 12 | 93 | 79-11-1-2 | 84.95% |
| England | 12 | 92 | 62-27-2-1 | 67.39% |
| New Zealand | 12 | 87 | 54-30-2-1 | 62.07% |
| India | 10 | 70 | 37-31-1-1 | 52.86% |
| South Africa | 7 | 46 | 20-23-0-4 | 43.48% |
| Sri Lanka | 6 | 35 | 8-26-0-1 | 23.52% |
| Pakistan | 5 | 30 | 3-27-0-0 | 10.00% |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 7 | 1-6-0-0 | 14.29% |
Women's Cricket World Cup Batting Records
Who has scored the most runs at the Women's World Cup?
Heading into the 2025 tournament, the leading run scorer in the Women's World Cup is Debbie Hockley (New Zealand), who between 1982 & 2000 scored a total of 1,501 runs in 43 innings.
She is only one of six who have managed to surpass the 1,000 run mark; the most recent of those is Mithali Raj (India), who played in the 2022 tournament and is second on the list with 1,321 runs.
Who has scored the highest innings in the Women's World Cup?
There have been plenty of 100+ innings at the World Cup, with 72 knocks of 100 or more during the history of the tournament. Only nine of those went on to score over 150, and only one of those has breached the 200 mark!
That came in 1997 when Australian Belinda Clark, against Denmark, scored 229 not out in Mumbai. She took 155 balls over 181 minutes to accumulate that score and didn't hit a single 6, although she did find the boundary 22 times for 4s.
The closest anyone has ever got to that score was in 2007 at the County Ground (Bristol) when Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka) scored 178 not out against Australia, but as you can see, that is still some 51 runs short of the record.
Women's Cricket World Cup Bowling Records
Who has taken the most wickets at the Women's World Cup?
The only person to pass the 40 wicket mark and thus making her the most successful bowler at the Women's World Cup is now retired Jhulan Goswami (India).
During 34 innings, she took a total of 43 wickets, her economy was 3.45 and her average was 21.74, and her best bowling figures were 4/16.
Lyn Fullston (Australia) is the closest to her with 39 wickets, but she is well retired now. The one who has the best chance of breaking the record and still playing is Shabnim Ismail (South Africa), who has 36 wickets.
Who has the best bowling figures in an innings at the Women's World Cup?
There have been nineteen five-wicket hauls at the Women's World Cup, which is a great feat. What's better? That would be a six-wicket haul, which has been achieved four times.
The best of those came from Jackie Lord (New Zealand), who took six wickets for just ten runs against India back in 1982, and she only bowled eight overs!
The others who have taken six-wicket hauls are Glenys Page (6/20), Sophie Ecclestone (6/36), and Anya Shrubsole (6/46), with Ecclestone's being the most recent, coming at the 2022 tournament.
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