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All about the Women’s Cricket World Cup

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n 4 March, the Women’s Cricket World Cup

begins in New Zealand. The international

tournament is contested by eight countries and

usually takes place every four years. The four-week

competition was meant to happen in 2021 but was

delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. As

England prepare to defend their title, here is

everything you need to know about the tournament.

Who will be

taking part?

New Zealand

qualified

automatically

because the

competition

is being

played in their

country. Australia,

England, India

and South Africa were

selected based on results

in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s

Championship, which was a competition played

from 2017 to 2020. The final three places went to

Bangladesh, Pakistan and West Indies, who qualified

because of their ICC rankings. Usually they would

have played qualifying matches but these had to

be called off because of the pandemic. England,

New Zealand and Australia have appeared in all 11

previous editions of the Women’s Cricket World Cup.

What are the rules?
This tournament will be played using One Day
International (ODI) rules. In ODI
cricket, each team bats for 50
“overs”. An over is when one
bowler bowls the ball six
times at the batters. The
batters score “runs” (points)
by hitting the ball and running
between the two wickets as
many times as they can before
the fielders get the ball back
to one of the wickets. They can
also score by hitting the ball to the
boundary (four runs) or making
the ball cross the boundary
without touching the ground
(six runs). The team with the
most runs after both teams
GET have batted is the winner.

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Find out about the action-

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The Week Junior • 5 March 2022

India captain

Mithali Raj.

Ellyse Perry,

Australia

Perry first played

cricket for

Australia aged

16. A talented
    batter and bowler,
    the 31-year-old has
    won lots of trophies,
    including the Women’s
    Cricket World Cup.
    She also played
    professional
    football
    until 2016.

Heather Knight, England

Knight is one of the best batters in the

world and captained England to the 2017 Women’s

Cricket World Cup title. She has scored more than

3,000 runs in One Day International cricket and

will also bowl for England.

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