On Tuesday, the International Cricket Council (ICC) made history by announcing the Women’s Future Tours Programme (FTP), which will include all three formats of the game and will confirm the bilateral international tours for 10 sides over the next three years.
On Tuesday, the International Cricket Council (ICC) made history by announcing the Women’s Future Tours Programme (FTP), which will include all three formats of the game and will confirm the bilateral international tours for 10 sides over the next three years. “As a direct consequence of the concerted efforts of the Members, the FTP has made it possible for the ICC Women’s Championship (IWC) to expand from a competition involving eight teams to one involving ten teams. As a result of teams participating in more matches across formats and in bilateral series, the 2022-25 Future Tours Program will have more than 300 matches performed “published a statement in an official capacity.
In the years 2022 through 2025, a total of seven tests are planned to be conducted. In December of 2023, India will play host to both England and Australia for one of their respective Test matches. There are a total of 301 matches planned for women’s cricket players, including seven tests, 135 one-day internationals (ODIs), and 159 twenty-minute matches (T20Is).
One of the multi-format Ashes series will take place in England in June 2023, while the other will take place in Australia in January 2025. Each of these series will consist of one Test match, three One-Day Internationals, and three Twenty20 Internationals. The inaugural series will consist of three One-Day Internationals (ODIs), all of which will be played as part of the ICC Women’s Championship. This championship provides direct qualifying for the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025, which will be held in India.
Apart from the IWC home series against India, the other commitments for Australia in December 2023 include a test match, three one-day internationals (ODIs), and three Twenty20 internationals (T20Is), all of which will take place in India. Australia are the current world champions in both the 50-over and 20-over formats, as well as the winners of both previous editions of the IWC. In addition, during the month of March in 2025, they will host New Zealand for a three-match home series that is not a part of an IWC tour.
According to further information provided in the release, “England, India, and South Africa are the other countries that have scheduled Tests during this period.” In addition, “several teams have planned five match T20I series.”
During this time period, England will compete against New Zealand in a home-and-away series of three one-day internationals (ODIs) and five Twenty20 internationals (T20Is), while India will compete in an International Cricket Council (ICC) series against Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the West Indies.
The West Indies will play five Twenty20 Internationals against Ireland at home, three Twenty20 Internationals in Australia, five Twenty20 Internationals in Pakistan, three Twenty20 Internationals in Sri Lanka, and three Twenty20 Internationals against Bangladesh and Sri Lanka apiece at home.
Ireland will play five Twenty20 Internationals away against the West Indies in June 2023, three Twenty20 Internationals at home against England in September ’24, three Twenty20 Internationals on the road against India in January ’25, and five Twenty20 Internationals on the road against Bangladesh in December ’24. Bangladesh will play an additional three Twenty20 Internationals against South Africa and the West Indies in January 25.
Sri Lanka will compete in three Twenty20 Internationals against each of the following teams: Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the West Indies.
Wasim Khan, the General Manager of Cricket for the ICC, stated that the confirmation of the first ever women’s FTP was a pivotal event for the sport of women’s cricket.
