ICC Women's World Cup: India To Face Pakistan In Opening Encounter On March 6
India will face Pakistan in their opening match of ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2022 in Tauranga on March 6, 2022.
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India will face Pakistan in their opener of ICC Women's CWC 2022
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The match will take place in Tauranga on March 6, 2022
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WC will start on March 4 at Bay Oval in Tauranga, with NZ taking on WI
India will face Pakistan in their opening match of ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2022 in Tauranga on March 6, 2022. The showpiece event will get underway on March 4, 2022 at the Bay Oval in Tauranga, with the hosts New Zealand taking on West Indies. England and Australia will then take on each other on the following day at Seddon Park in Hamilton. A total of 31 matches will be staged across 31 days, with the eight teams clashing to clinch the World Cup title. Women's cricketer Mona Meshram took to social media platform Koo to pass on her wishes to the Indian team for the tournament. She wrote, "The Indian women's team will start its campaign against Pakistan in the ICC World Cup 2022. This match will be a bang. Last time we missed out on winning the World Cup but this time we are confident that this time the Cup will come home."
According to ICC, Australia, England, South Africa and India qualified for the event on the basis of their position in ICC Women's Championship 2017-20 while New Zealand automatically qualified as they were hosts.
The megaevent will be played in the league format, where all eight nations will face each other once, at the end of which the top four teams will qualify for the semi-finals.
The first semi-final of the World Cup will be played at The Basin Reserve in Wellington on March 30 while The Hagley Oval will staged the second semi-final on March 31.
The finals of the tournament will played on April 3. Both the semi-finals and the finals will have a reserve day in place as per ICC.
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