2017 Women's Cricket World Cup
The 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup was an international women's cricket tournament that took place in England from 24 June to 23 July 2017.[1] It was the eleventh edition of the Women's Cricket World Cup, and the third to be held in England (after the 1973 and 1993 tournaments). The 2017 World Cup was the first in which all participating players were fully professional.[2] Eight teams qualified to participate in the tournament. England won the final against India at Lord's on 23 July by 9 runs.[3]
 ICC Women's World Cup 2017, England & Wales | |
| Dates | 24 June – 23 July |
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| Administrator(s) | International Cricket Council |
| Cricket format | One-Day International |
| Tournament format(s) | Round-robin and Knockout |
| Host(s) |  England.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Wales[nb 1] |
| Champions | England (4th title) |
| Runners-up |  India |
| Participants | 8 |
| Matches played | 31 |
| Player of the series | Tammy Beaumont |
| Most runs | Tammy Beaumont (410) |
| Most wickets |  Dane van Niekerk (15) |
| Official website | Official site |
Qualification
The 2014–16 ICC Women's Championship, featuring the top eight ranked teams in women's cricket, was the first phase of qualifying for the World Cup, with the top four teams qualifying automatically. The remaining four places were decided at the 2017 World Cup Qualifier, a ten-team event that was held in Sri Lanka in February 2017. This featured the bottom four teams from the ICC Women's Championship and six other teams.[4]
Venues
On 8 February 2016, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the five venues for the 2017 Women's World Cup. Lord's hosted the final, and other matches were played at the home grounds of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Somerset and Gloucestershire.[5][6]
| London | Derby | Bristol | Leicester | Taunton |
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| Lord's | County Ground | Bristol County Ground | Grace Road | County Ground |
| Capacity: 28,000 | Capacity: 9,500 | Capacity: 17,500 | Capacity: 12,000 | Capacity: 12,500 |
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Squads
The captains of each team were announced on 21 April 2017, with the full squads named shortly after.[7]
Match officials
The ICC announced a panel of thirteen umpires and three match referees to officiate the tournament, including four female umpires, the highest number yet for an ICC global event.[8] The four female umpires were drawn from the ICC's International Umpires Development Panel and their male colleagues from the International Umpires Panel. Richie Richardson is a member of the Elite Match Referees Panel while Steve Bernard and David Jukes are on the Regional Match Referees Panel. Sue Redfern became the first woman to have played in a Women's Cricket World Cup and then stand in a tournament as an umpire.[9]
Prize money
The International Cricket Council declared a total prize money pool of US$2 million for the tournament, a ten fold increase from the 2013 World Cup. The prize money was allocated according to the performance of the team as follows:[10]
| Stage | Teams | Prize money (USD) | Total (USD) |
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| Winner | 1 | $660,000 | $660,000 |
| Runner-up | 1 | $330,000 | $330,000 |
| Losing semi-finalists | 2 | $165,000 | $330,000 |
| Winner of each pool match | 28 | $20,000 | $560,000 |
| Teams that do not pass the group stage | 4 | $30,000 | $120,000 |
| Total | $2,000,000 | ||
Group stage
On 8 February 2016, it was announced that in the Group Stage, eight sides will participate in a single-league format with each side playing the other once. This format was last used in the 2005 tournament. The top four sides following the conclusion of the league matches progressed to the semi-finals with the winners meeting at Lord's on 23 July. Therefore, a total of 31 matches were played during the 28-day tournament.[11] The full fixtures for the tournament were announced by the ICC on 8 March 2017, to coincide with International Women's Day.[12] Ahead of the group stage fixtures there were eight practice matches, played between 19 and 22 June 2017.[13]
Teams tied on equal points in the group stage of the tournament were decided by number of wins, followed by net run rate.[14] If both of those were still the same, then the head-to-head match between the two sides was used to determine who progresses to the semi-finals.[14]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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| 1 | England |
7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1.295 |
| 2 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Australia |
7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1.004 |
| 3 | India |
7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.669 |
| 4 | South Africa |
7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1.183 |
| 5 |  New Zealand |
7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0.309 |
| 6 |  West Indies |
7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | −1.522 |
| 7 |  Sri Lanka |
7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | −1.099 |
| 8 |  Pakistan |
7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1.930 |
Round 1
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- New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to field.
- Points: New Zealand Women 2, Sri Lanka Women 0.
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- England Women won the toss and elected to field.
- Mithali Raj (Ind) became the first woman to score seven successive half-centuries in WODIs.[15]
- Points: India Women 2, England Women 0.
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- South Africa Women won the toss and elected to field.
- Mignon du Preez became the first woman for South Africa to play in 100 WODIs.[16]
- Points: South Africa Women 2, Pakistan Women 0.
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- West Indies Women won the toss and elected to bat.
- Felicia Walters (WI) made her WODI debut.
- Ashleigh Gardner became the first Indigenous Australian woman to play in a cricket World Cup.[17]
- Points: Australia Women 2, West Indies Women 0.
Round 2
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- Pakistan Women won the toss and elected to field.
- Rain during Pakistan Women's innings prevented any further play.
- Nat Sciver and Heather Knight (Eng) both scored their maiden centuries in a WODI.[18]
- This was England Women's highest total in a World Cup match and their second-highest total in all WODIs.[18]
- Points: England Women 2, Pakistan Women 0.
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- No toss.
- No play was possible due to rain.
- Points: New Zealand Women 1, South Africa Women 1.
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- India Women won the toss and elected to field.
- Deandra Dottin and Stafanie Taylor (WI) both played in their 100th WODI.[19]
- Points: India Women 2, West Indies Women 0.
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- Australia Women won the toss and elected to field.
- Belinda Vakarewa (Aus) made her WODI debut.
- Chamari Atapattu (SL) scored the third-highest total in a WODI and the second-highest total in a Women's World Cup match.[20]
- Chamari Atapattu also scored the highest percentage of runs in a completed innings in a WODI (69.26%) and the most runs in boundaries in a WODI (124).[20]
- Points: Australia Women 2, Sri Lanka Women 0.
Round 3
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- Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to bat.
- Points: England Women 2, Sri Lanka Women 0.
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- New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to bat.
- Suzie Bates (NZ) played her 100th WODI.[21]
- Points: Australia Women 2, New Zealand Women 0.
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- India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
- Points: India Women 2, Pakistan Women 0.
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- South Africa Women won the toss and elected to field.
- Reniece Boyce and Qiana Joseph (WI) both made their WODI debuts.
- This was the second-lowest total by the West Indies in a WODI.[22]
- Dane van Niekerk (SA) became the first bowler in international cricket to take four wickets without conceding a run.[22]
- Points: South Africa Women 2, West Indies Women 0.
Round 4
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- England Women won the toss and elected to bat.
- Tammy Beaumont and Sarah Taylor (Eng) made the highest partnership for any wicket in a Women's Cricket World Cup match (275).[23]
- South Africa Women became the first side to make more than 300 runs batting second in a WODI.[24]
- Points: England Women 2, South Africa Women 0.
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- India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
- Points: India Women 2, Sri Lanka Women 0.
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- Australia Women won the toss and elected to bat.
- Rachael Haynes was the captain of Australia for the first time in a WODI.[25]
- Sarah Aley (Aus) made her WODI debut.
- Points: Australia Women 2, Pakistan Women 0.
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- New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to field.
- Akeira Peters (WI) made her WODI debut.
- Points: New Zealand Women 2, West Indies Women 0.
Round 5
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- Pakistan Women won the toss and elected to bat.
- Sana Mir (Pak) played her 100th WODI[26] and Lea Tahuhu (NZ) played her 50th WODI.[27]
- Sophie Devine (NZ) hit nine sixes in her innings of 93, the most by a woman in a WODI.[28]
- Points: New Zealand Women 2, Pakistan Women 0.
- Pakistan Women were eliminated as a result of this match.[29]
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- India Women won the toss and elected to field.
- Points: South Africa Women 2, India Women 0.
- Sri Lanka Women and West Indies Women were eliminated as a result of this match.
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- Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to field.
- Points: West Indies Women 2, Sri Lanka Women 0.
Round 6
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- Pakistan Women won the toss and elected to field.
- Rain during Pakistan Women's innings set them a revised target of 137 runs from 24 overs.
- Deandra Dottin scored her first century in a WODI,[31] and the fastest by a West Indies woman (71 balls).[32]
- Points: West Indies Women 2, Pakistan Women 0.
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- Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to bat.
- Points: South Africa Women 2, Sri Lanka Women 0.
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- Australia Women won the toss and elected to field.
- Mithali Raj (Ind) became the leading run-scorer in WODIs, passing the previous record of 5,992 runs set by Charlotte Edwards (Eng), and became the first woman to pass 6,000 runs in WODIs.[33][34]
- Points: Australia Women 2, India Women 0.
- Australia Women qualified for the semi-finals as a result of this match.[35]
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- England Women won the toss and elected to bat.
- Katherine Brunt (Eng) and Amy Satterthwaite (NZ) both played in their 100th WODI.[36][37]
- Points: England Women 2, New Zealand Women 0.
- England Women and South Africa Women qualified for the semi-finals as a result of this match.[38][39]
Round 7
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- Australia Women won the toss and elected to bat.
- Points: Australia Women 2, South Africa Women 0.
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- West Indies Women won the toss and elected to field.
- Points: England Women 2, West Indies Women 0.
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- New Zealand Women won the toss and elected to field.
- This was India Women's biggest win, in terms of runs, in a Women's World Cup.[40]
- Rajeshwari Gayakwad (Ind) recorded the best bowling figures for a bowler for India Women in Women's World Cups.[40]
- This was the lowest all-out total made by New Zealand Women in Women's World Cups.[40]
- Points: India Women 2, New Zealand Women 0.
- India Women qualified for the semi-finals as a result of this match.[41]
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- Sri Lanka Women won the toss and elected to bat.
- Shashikala Siriwardene (SL) played in her 100th WODI.
- Points: Sri Lanka Women 2, Pakistan Women 0.
Knockout stage
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 18 July – County Ground, Bristol | ||||||
| South Africa | 218/6 | |||||
| 23 July – Lord's, London | ||||||
| England | 221/8 | |||||
| England | 228/7 | |||||
| 20 July – County Ground, Derby | ||||||
| India | 219 | |||||
| India | 281/4 | |||||
| Australia | 245 | |||||
Semi-finals
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- South Africa Women won the toss and elected to bat.
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- India Women won the toss and elected to bat.
- Rain reduced the match to 42 overs per side.
- Harmanpreet Kaur (Ind) made the highest score by a woman in the knockout stages of World Cups and the highest individual score for India in a Women's World Cup.[42]
Broadcast
In May 2017, the ICC announced that 10 games would be shown live on television, while the remaining 21 matches would be streamed live via the ICC website.[44] The 10 televised matches featured DRS for the first time in women's cricket.[45]
Notes
- Officially, the tournament was hosted by England and Wales, as the England and Wales Cricket Board governs the sport in both countries; however, all matches took place in England.
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