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The ICC Women’s ODI World Cup is to be played in the hosting of India and Sri Lanka. The tournament will start from 30 September and the final match will be played on 2 November. The first match of the tournament is to be played in Bengaluru. However, this match is clouded by crisis.
According to a report by Cricbuzz, the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) has not yet received approval from the Government of Karnataka to organize these matches at the stadium. The matches that are to be played here include a semi -final match in addition to the inaugural match between India and Sri Lanka.
Stampede reasons in Bengaluru Recently serious questions were raised about hosting big events at Chinnaswamy Stadium. In June this year, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) had a stampede around the stadium during the celebration of IPL victory. 11 people were killed and more than 50 people were injured in this accident. At the same time, KSCA had to shift the Maharaja T20 tournament from Bangalore to Mysore.
28 league matches will be played on 5 venues In this tournament, 28 league matches and three knockouts will be played in five places Bangalore, Indore, Guwahati, Visakhapatnam and Colombo. At the same time, the first semi -finals will take place on 29 October in Guwahati or Colombo (dependent on Pakistan’s arrival) and the second semi -finals in Bengaluru on 30 October. The final will be played on 2 November in Bengaluru or Colombo.
All Pakistan matches in Sri Lanka on hybrid model All Pakistan matches will be played in Sri Lanka on hybrid models. According to the hybrid agreement between the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the Pakistan team will play all their matches in Neutral Venue Colombo. These include matches against Bangladesh (2 October), England (15 October), New Zealand (18 October), South Africa (21 October) and Sri Lanka (24 October).
The 2025 tournament format will be similar to 2022 The 2025 tournament format will be similar to 2022, in which eight teams will play each other in a round-robin format and the top four teams will reach the semi-finals. Apart from host India, Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa and Sri Lanka qualified directly. The last two places Pakistan and Bangladesh achieved in the qualifiers in Lahore earlier this year. The West Indies are not part of the tournament, they lagged behind Bangladesh on a net run-rate basis in the qualifier.