ICC Women’s Future Tours Programme: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has released a schedule for 2025-2029, which has been named the Future Tours Program (FTP). This initiative will be part of the ICC Women’s Championship cycle, under which 44 ODI series will be played between women cricketers within the next 4 years. But the most interesting thing about this initiative is that an ICC tournament will be organized for women cricketers every year from 2025-2029.
This program has been set keeping in mind the 2029 Women’s Cricket World Cup, in which 11 teams will participate. Zimbabwe will be making its debut in this tournament, which will contribute to the growth of women’s cricket globally. Within the next four years, each team will play four ODI series at home and four on foreign soil. In this way, a total of 44 series will be played, each series will be of 3 matches. That means there are to be a total of 132 matches between all the teams.
ICC tournament will be held every year
FTP will also ensure that more and more matches can be played in women’s international cricket within the next four years. Let us tell you that this program will start after the 2025 Women’s Cricket World Cup. More than 400 international matches will be played between women’s cricket teams from 2025-2029.
There will be a Women’s Cricket World Cup in 2025 which India is going to host. Women’s T20 World Cup will be played in 2026. Till now the Champions Trophy was organized only in men’s cricket, but for the first time in 2027, there will be a race to win the Champions Trophy between women’s cricket teams also. The T20 World Cup will be played again in 2028, which Australia has won 6 times so far. This Women’s Championship cycle will end in the year 2029, where the 14th edition of the Women’s ODI World Cup will be played.
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