2017–20 ICC Women's Championship

The 2017–20 ICC Women's Championship[1] was the second edition of the ICC Women's Championship, a Women's One Day International cricket (WODI) competition that was contested by eight teams, to determine qualification for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup.[2] The top four teams, along with hosts New Zealand, qualified directly for the World Cup.[3] The remaining three teams progressed to the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament.[4]

2017–20 ICC Women's Championship
Administrator(s)International Cricket Council
Cricket formatOne Day International
Tournament format(s)Round robin
Host(s)Various
Champions Australia (2nd title)
Runners-up England
Most runs Alyssa Healy (1,000)
Most wickets Sana Mir (35)

In the previous tournament, the first three WODIs counted towards qualification. However, for this tournament, the International Cricket Council (ICC) requested that additional matches are played as Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is).[2] Inline with the updated ICC rules, two balls were used for the first time in WODI matches.[5]

When originally announced in October 2017, the top three teams, along with hosts New Zealand, would qualify for the World Cup.[1][6] In October 2018, the qualification structure was changed allowing the hosts plus the top four teams to qualify directly for 2022 World Cup.[3]

The first set of fixtures were announced by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), with Pakistan playing New Zealand in the United Arab Emirates in October 2017.[7] The first round of fixtures to be played were between the West Indies and Sri Lanka, which started on 11 October 2017.[8] In the opening fixture of the championship, the West Indies beat Sri Lanka by 6 wickets.[9]

In March 2019, England beat Sri Lanka 3–0. The result meant that Sri Lanka Women could no longer qualify directly for the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup, progressing to the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament instead.[10] In September 2019, the ICC confirmed that Australia were the first team to qualify for the World Cup.[11] In October 2019, Australia took an unassailable points lead to win the ICC Women's Championship trophy for the second time in a row.[12][13] In February 2020, the Australian team were presented with the ICC Women's Championship trophy, ahead of their Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) match against India.[14]

The COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the series between South Africa and Australia in March 2020.[15] Two unscheduled series, New Zealand against Sri Lanka and Pakistan against India, were also thrown into doubt due to the pandemic.[16] On 3 April 2020, New Zealand Cricket confirmed that their planned tour of Sri Lanka, scheduled to take place in April, had been cancelled due to the pandemic.[17] However, the result of the series would have no impact on the final standings, as Sri Lanka had already been eliminated, and New Zealand had progressed to the World Cup as hosts.[18] On 15 April 2020, the ICC confirmed that the points would be shared for the three series that were not played.[19]

Results

The breakdown of results is as follows. During each round, each team played against its opponent three times.

Round Window Home team Away team Date Result
1 October 2017 – February 2018  West Indies  Sri Lanka 11 October 2017 3–0[20]
 Australia  England 22 October 2017 2–1[21]
 Pakistan  New Zealand 31 October 2017 1–2[22]
 South Africa  India 5 February 2018 1–2[23]
2 March – June 2018  New Zealand  West Indies 4 March 2018 3–0[24]
 India  Australia 12 March 2018 0–3[25]
 Sri Lanka  Pakistan 20 March 2018 0–3[26]
 England  South Africa 9 June 2018 2–1[27]
3 July – October 2018  England  New Zealand 7 July 2018 2–1[28]
 Sri Lanka  India 11 September 2018 1–2[29]
 West Indies  South Africa 16 September 2018 1–1[30]
 Pakistan  Australia 18 October 2018 0–3[31]
4 October 2018 – February 2019  New Zealand  India 24 January 2019 1–2[32]
 Pakistan  West Indies 7 February 2019 2–1[33]
 South Africa  Sri Lanka 11 February 2019 3–0[34]
 Australia  New Zealand 22 February 2019 3–0[35]
 India  England 22 February 2019 2–1[36]
5 March – June 2019  Sri Lanka  England 16 March 2019 0–3[37]
 South Africa  Pakistan 6 May 2019 1–1[38]
 England  West Indies 6 June 2019 3–0[39]
6 July – November 2019  West Indies  Australia 5 September 2019 0–3[40]
 Australia  Sri Lanka 5 October 2019 3–0[41]
 West Indies  India 1 November 2019 1–2[42]
 Pakistan  India November 2019 (see Notes)
7 December 2019 – April 2020  Pakistan  England 9 December 2019 0–2[43]
 New Zealand  South Africa 25 January 2020 0–3[44]
 South Africa  Australia 22 March 2020 (see Notes)
 Sri Lanka  New Zealand April 2020 (see Notes)

Notes:

  • The round six fixtures between Pakistan and India should have taken place by the end of November 2019. However, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) did not receive an invitation to play the series from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), with the matter referred to the ICC Technical Committee.[45] The series did not go ahead due to a force majeure event, with the BCCI demonstrating it could not get government clearance to play against Pakistan.[46] Points were shared between the teams.
  • Two round seven fixtures, South Africa hosting Australia and Sri Lanka hosting New Zealand, did not go ahead as scheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[47][48] Points were shared between the teams.

Points table
Pos Team Pld W L T NR Pts NRR
1  Australia 21 17 1 0 3 37 1.835 Advance to the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup.
2  England 21 14 6 0 1 29 1.267
3  South Africa 21 10 6 1 4 25 −0.309
4  India 21 10 8 0 3 23 0.465
5  Pakistan 21 7 9 1 4 19 −0.460 Advance to the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier.
6  New Zealand 21 7 11 0 3 17 −0.206 Automatically qualified for 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup as the hosts.
7  West Indies 21 6 14 0 1 13 −1.033 Advance to the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier.
8  Sri Lanka 21 1 17 0 3 5 −1.611
Source: [19][49][50]

Notes

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