ICC Women's T20 World Cup Preview & Betting Guide

ICC Women's T20 World Cup Preview

The 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup will take place between the 3rd of October and the 20th of October with Bangladesh being the official host of the tournament, however, games will be played in the U.A.E.

Two venues will be used throughout the tournament, the 25,000-capacity Dubai International Cricket Stadium and the 16,000-capacity Sharjah Cricket Stadium.

This will be the ninth edition of this tournament and Australia will be coming into the tournament as favourites and looking to win a fourth consecutive title after winning the last three in the West Indies, Australia and South Africa.

They have dominated having won six of the previous eight tournaments, the only time they failed to make the final was in the inaugural tournament (2009) when England won and then in India (2016) they made the final, however, they were beaten by the West Indies in the final.

T20 World Cup Women 2024 13 Oct @ 06:19 - Outright Winner
Australia Women	1.67
England Women	3.75
New Zealand Women	13.00
India Women	13.00
South Africa Women	13.00
West Indies Women	41.00

2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Format

How many teams will participate?

A total of 10 teams will take part in the WC, Bangladesh got an automatic berth because they are the official hosts despite it being played in the U.A.E. Australia, England, India, South Africa, New Zealand and West Indies qualified due to being the top six teams at the last world cup, Pakistan qualified as the highest ranking team of those not already qualified and then Scotland and Sri Lanka made it through the qualifiers to get here.

What are the T20 World Cup Groups?

The ten teams have been split into two groups of five, during the group stages each team will be the others in their group meaning each team will play a total of four group games with each group featuring ten games.

Who makes it to the Knockout Stage?

When the group stage is completed, the top two teams from each group advance to the knockout stage with the winners of Group A playing the runners-up of Group B in the first semi-finals on the 17th of October at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium and then a day later the winner of Group B players the runner-up of Group A at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium.

The two winners advance to the final which will be played on the 20th of October at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium where the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup winner will be decided!

ICC Women's T20 World Cup Betting Tips

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You can also head over to the Best Cricket Tipsters page to see what the crème de la crème of cricket tipsters are backing, on this page, we only display profitable cricket tipsters.

If you are out and about during the T20 World Cup or, if you are heading the the games yourself, be sure to download and install the OLBG App and get cricket tips no matter where you are!

ICC Women's T20 World Cup Past Winners

Here are the past winners of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup, as we have previously touched on Australia has been dominant in this tournament as you can see here.

ICC Women's T20 World Cup Country Performances

Considering that they have won six of the eight tournaments, it is no surprise to see Australia top the performance charts, they have won over 80% of their matches. Some would argue that England has been unlucky as a team who have won 75% of their games and yet have only picked up one tournament win, they have been losing finalists on three occasions, all to Australia!

As you can see below, of the ten teams taking part in 2024, Scotland is the only team making their debut, Bangladesh will be making their 6th appearance whilst the other eight teams have appeared in all previous eight tournaments.

ICC Women's T20 World Cup Records

Highest Innings Total

The 213/5 set by England during the 2023 tournament against Pakistan in Cape Town is the highest total set by a team at the WC with the 81 not out from Nat Sciver-Brunt from just 40 balls playing a big part of that total.

The score is the only one in the history of this tournament of over 200, the closest any team has come to it was when South Africa set 195 during the 2020 tournament and one behind that is India with 194 during the 2018 WC.

Biggest Win Margin

The already mentioned game where England scored 213 is also the biggest win margin because in reply Pakistan only scored 99 giving England a 114-run win.

There are only three winning margins by over 100 runs, the already mentioned England win, South Africa won by 113 against Thailand (2020) and the 102-run victory by New Zealand against Sri Lanka (2023).

Biggest Match Aggregate

The Providence Stadium in Guyana during the 2016 WC is home to the biggest match aggregate score, India set New Zealand a total of 195 to chase, they only got 160 but still, the combined score of 354 is the biggest the WC has seen.

That is the only game to go over 340 runs at the T20 World Cup, the next closest is the 339 set by Australia (172) and India (167) during the 2023 tournament.

Lowest Innings Total

Bangladesh holds the two lowest totals at the T20 World Cup, in 2014 against England from their 20 overs they scored just 58 runs but went even worse in 2018 against the West Indies when chasing a 107 target, they were bowled out for just 46 runs.

There have been a large number of teams scoring under 100, the top 10 lowest scores see the highest of those being just 72 runs and for the top 20, the highest score is just 79!

Lowest Match Aggregate

There have not been too many low-scoring games, the majority of these came in the earlier tournaments which would suggest the quality has improved as the years have gone by, of the top 20 lowest match scores, two are from 2020 and the rest before then.

Only one match saw under 100 runs and that came at the 2012 tournament, although this match was affected by the weather so it was a shortened version, Sri Lanka scored 50 off 10.3 overs and the West Indies were set a target of 48 from 8 overs, they only got to 42 making the match score 92 runs.

The lowest scoring where the game was not affected in any way came in 2010, Pakistan scored just 65 from their 20 overs and was successfully chased down by New Zealand who scored 71 for a match total of 136 which is the lowest of any normal game.

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