Question
Download Solution PDFThe T-20 Cricket World Cup for women was held in which country in 2020?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Australia.
Key Points
- The event was place in Australia from February 21 until March 8, 2020.
- On International Women's Day, the final took played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- Hosts Australia won the competition by defeating India by 85 runs to capture their fifth championship.
- Women's T20WC 2023: Australia defeated South Africa to win an amazing sixth championship.
- Throughout the game, Meg Lanning's In a thrilling championship match, Australia defeated South Africa at the ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Cape Town in 2023.
- Having won the last two competitions, the United States is the reigning champion.
Additional Information
- A predetermined number of teams advance automatically to each event, with the World Twenty20 Qualification selecting the other teams. Australia is the most successful team, having won the competition six times.
- International ICC Women's Twenty20 rankings and a qualification match, the ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier, determine qualification.
- Up until 2014, the top six teams in the ICC Women's Twenty20 International rankings at the time of the draw determined six teams, with the final two spots being determined through a qualification process.
- The top eight teams in the ICC Women's T20I rankings determined six spots in the 2014 edition, with the host nation and three qualifiers joining them in the competition.
- At the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2023 in South Africa, big names performed on the biggest platform, with Australia winning their sixth championship and many of the best players in the world making an impression.
- United Kingdom:
- The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, also referred to as the UK or Britain, is a nation in Europe that lies off the northwestern coast of the continent.
- England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are included in it.
- The British Isles' Great Britain, the northeastern portion of Ireland, and numerous smaller islands are all included in the United Kingdom.
- The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are separated by a land border; otherwise, the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, and the Irish Sea encircle the rest of the United Kingdom.
- The population of the United Kingdom is expected to reach over 67 million by the year 2020, covering a total area of 242,495 square kilometres (93,628 sq mi).
- India:
- India, often known as the Republic of India, is a South Asian nation.
- It is the world's most populous democracy, the second-most populated nation by area, and the seventh-largest nation overall.
- Its land borders with Pakistan to the west, China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north, Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east, and the Indian Ocean on the south, Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast.
- India shares a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia on its Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which are located in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
- West Indies:
- The West Indies, a part of North America bordered by the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, is made up of three archipelagos the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago as well as 13 autonomous island nations and 18 dependencies.
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