The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday unveiled the match schedule for the 2025 ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier, set to happen in Pakistan from April 9 to 19. The Qualifier will likely be performed at two iconic venues in Lahore: Gaddafi Stadium and the Lahore Metropolis Cricket Affiliation (LCCA) Floor.
This sixth version of the match options groups from 4 Full Members – Bangladesh, Eire, Pakistan, and the West Indies, who will compete alongside Affiliate Members Scotland and Thailand in a 15-match league.
The highest two groups from the Qualifier will safe their spots within the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup 2025 later this 12 months.
Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and host nation India have already certified for the World Cup, having completed within the high six of the 10-team ICC Girls’s Championship (2022-25).
Bangladesh, Eire, Pakistan, and the West Indies certified for the occasion by ending seventh to tenth within the Girls’s Championship, whereas Thailand and Scotland earned their locations based mostly on their rankings within the ICC Girls’s ODI Group Rankings as of October 28, 2024.
Notable matchups within the match embody Pakistan going through the West Indies on April 14 in a day-night match at Gaddafi Stadium, Bangladesh taking over the West Indies at LCCA on April 17, and an exhilarating sub-continental rivalry between Pakistan and Bangladesh at LCCA on April 19.
ICC CEO Geoff Allardice expressed pleasure in regards to the match, stating: “We’re happy to announce the match schedule for the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2025. The six competing groups are only one step away from the Girls’s Cricket World Cup, and I’m positive they are going to all be eagerly trying ahead to the competitors.”
He added, “On behalf of the ICC, I want to want the groups all one of the best for the match in Lahore as a part of the build-up to the Cricket World Cup later this 12 months.”
The schedule for the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2025 is as follows:
April 9: Pakistan vs Eire (Gaddafi Stadium, Day);
April 9: West Indies vs Scotland (LCCA, Day)
April 10: Thailand vs Bangladesh (LCCA, Day)
April 11: Pakistan vs Scotland (LCCA, Day);
April 11: Eire vs West Indies (Gaddafi Stadium, Day)
April 13: Scotland vs Thailand (LCCA, Day);
April 13: Bangladesh vs Eire (Gaddafi Stadium, D/N)
April 14: Pakistan vs West Indies (Gaddafi Stadium, D/N)
April 15: Thailand vs Eire (LCCA, Day);
April 15: Scotland vs Bangladesh (Gaddafi Stadium, D/N)
April 17: Bangladesh vs West Indies (LCCA, Day);
April 17: Pakistan vs Thailand (Gaddafi Stadium, D/N)
April 18: Eire vs Scotland (Gaddafi Stadium, D/N)
April 19: Pakistan vs Bangladesh (LCCA, Day);
April 19: West Indies vs Thailand (Gaddafi Stadium, D/N)
(Day matches begin at 09:30 am, Day/Evening matches at 02:00 pm native time)