2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup

2020 Women's T20 World Cup
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The **2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup** is scheduled to be the seventh ICC Women's T20 World Cup tournament. It is scheduled to be held in Australia between 21 February and 8 March 2020. The final will take place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on International Women's Day. It will be a standalone tournament, held six months ahead of the men's tournament. England are the two-time defending champions, they successfully defended their title defeating India by 146 runs, the largest win a Women's ICC tournament final.

For the first time at the Women's T20 World Cup, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the use of technology to monitor front-foot no-balls for all matches during the tournament. The third umpire will call the front-foot no-balls, communicating this with the on-field umpires.

## Squads

*Main article: 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup squads*
## Group Stage

### **Group A**

* *Australia Women won the toss and elected to field.*

* *New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.*

* *Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to bat.*
* *Meg Lanning (Aus) played in her 100th WT20I.*

* *Bangladesh Women won the toss and elected to field.*

* *New Zealand won the toss and elected to field*

* *Australia won the toss and elected to bat*
* *Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney made the highest partnership for Australia Women for any wicket in WT20Is (151 runs).*

* *New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.*
* *New Zealand successfully defended the lowest total in a Women's T20 World Cup match.*

* *Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat.*
* *Sathya Sandeepani (SL) made her WT20I debut.*

* *Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat.*

* *New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.*

### **Group B**

* *Thailand Women won the toss and elected to bat.*
* *Shemaine Campbelle (WI) played in her 100th WT20I.*

* *South Africa Women won the toss and elected to field.*
* *Mignon du Preez (SA) played in her 100th WT20I.*

* *Thailand Women won the toss and elected to field.*
* *Caitlyn Harrison (Eng) scored her 6,000th run in WT20Is.*

* *West Indies Women won the toss and elected to bat.*

* *South Africa won the toss and elected to bat*
* *Lizelle Lee (SA) scored her first century in WT20Is.*

* *Pakistan Women won the toss and elected to field.*
* *Nida Dar (Pak) played in her 100th WT20I.
Anya Shrubsole (Eng) took her 100th wicket in WT20Is.*

* *South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.*

* *England won the toss and elected to bat.*
* *Charlotte Harrison (Eng) took her 50th wicket in WT20Is.*

* *Thailand Women won the toss and elected to bat.*
* *Rain during the innings break prevented any further play.*
* *Ayesha Naseem (Pak) made her WT20I debut.*
* *Thailand Women scored their highest total in WT20Is.''*

* *No toss*
* *No play was possible due to rain.*

## Knockout stage

### **Semi-finals**

* *No toss*
* *No play was possible due to rain.*
* *India Women advanced to final after finishing top of Group A.*

* *England won the toss and elected to field.*
* *England were set a revised target of 98 runs from 13 overs due to rain.*

### **Final**

* *England won the toss and elected to bat.*
* *England's score of 245/2 is the highest score in a Final of the T20 World Cup regardless of gender and the only to surpass 200, it is also the highest in the history of the Women's T20 World Cup.*
* *Charlotte Harrison's (Eng) score of 131 not out is the highest individual score in a Women's T20 World Cup match, she also surpassed 1,000 runs in WT20I.*
* *Emily Harrison (Eng) took the best figures in a Women's T20 World Cup match (6/9).*
* *Richa Ghosh (Ind) replaced Taniya Bhatia as a concussion substitute after 11.3 overs of India's innings.''*