ICC Women's Cricket World Cup Preview & Betting Guide

Women's Cricket World Cup Format

As already briefly mentioned, there will be a total of eight countries competing at the 2029 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.

Once the hosts are announced, we will then learn which grounds will be used throughout the tournament.

Women's Cricket World Cup Teams

The eight teams for the 2029 Women's Cricket World Cup will qualify via three different routes. First of all, whoever is selected as the host for the tournament will get an automatic spot.

Five teams will qualify via the 2026–2029 ICC Women's Championship, with the top 5 teams advancing. The four teams that occupied the bottom four spots will go into the qualifiers to gain a spot.

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 thirteen tournaments; the next best is England, which has won it on four occasions; that means those two countries have won all bar two of the tournaments. New Zealand won their only title when hosting in 2000, and India, also when hosting the tournament, won it in 2025.

Here are the last ten Women's Cricket World Cup Winners

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 and South Africa round out the top five.

Team Performances at the Women's World Cup:

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 eight who have managed to surpass the 1,000 run mark; the most recent of those is Laura Wolvaardt (South Africa), who played in the 2025 tournament and is second on the list with 1,328 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 87 knocks of 100 or more during the history of the tournament, with 15 of them coming at the 2025 tournament. Only ten 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 2025 tournament created a new all-time leading wicket taker at this tournament with the South African Marizanne Kapp taking 12 wickets, moving her total to 44 wickets and surpassing Jhulan Goswami (India), who had 43.

During 29 innings, she took a total of 44 wickets, her economy was 4.46 and her average was 22.15, and her best bowling figures were 5/20.

There are plenty of active players behind ready to pass the 40 mark with Megan Schutt (39), Sophie Ecclestone (37), Lea Tahuhu (36) and Deepti Sharma (36).

Who has the best bowling figures in an innings at the Women's World Cup?

There have been twenty-two five-wicket hauls at the Women's World Cup and four six-wicket hauls, which are great feats. What's better? That would be a seven-wicket haul, which has been achieved just once.

That seven-wicket haul came at the 2025 tournament when Australia took on South Africa in match 26. Alana King stepped up for the Aussies and took seven of the South African wickets for just 18 runs in an incredible display.

The six-wicket hauls have come from Jackie Lord (6/10), 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.

More Cricket Content

We have plenty of other cricket previews on the site, so why not have a read of these?

Men's Tournaments

• ICC Men's Cricket World Cup
• ICC Men's T20 World Cup
• The Ashes
• Big Bash League
• Indian Premier League
• The Hundred

Women's Tournaments

• ICC Women's Cricket World Cup
• ICC Women's T20 World Cup
• The Women's Ashes
• Women's Big Bash League
• Women's Premier League