Dubai [UAE]November 7 (ANI): Following the success of The ICC Girls’s World Cup hosted in India, the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) introduced the growth of the match’s subsequent version to 10 groups, two groups up from eight, which featured on this yr’s version, which additionally marked India’s first-ever title win.
The ICC Board authorised a collection of strategic measures designed to speed up the worldwide progress of cricket, strengthen the ladies’s recreation, and reinforce the ICC’s long-term growth technique.
The ICC reaffirmed its dedication to the expansion of Girls’s Cricket and heralded the success of the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup 2025 in India as a testomony to its long-standing religion within the Girls’s recreation. Almost 300,000 followers watched the occasion in stadia breaking the report for match attendance for any ladies’s Cricket occasion. The match additionally witnessed viewership progress and new data being set for on-screen audiences the world over, with almost 500 million viewers in India, as per a press launch.
The ICC board, eager to construct on the success of the occasion, agreed to develop the subsequent version of the match to 10 groups (from eight groups in 2025).
The ICC Board ratified the appointment of a lot of members of the ICC Girls’s Cricket Committee, particularly Ashley De Silva, Mithali Raj, Amol Muzumdar, Ben Sawyer, Charlotte Edwards, and Sala Stella Siale-Vaea.
The Board reviewed the ICC’s ongoing engagement with the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Video games (LA28), as cricket deepens its footprint within the international multisport panorama.
It recommended the efforts being made to incorporate Cricket in regional multi-sport video games, which might imply elevated participation alternatives for international locations. Cricket is now confirmed to function throughout a number of multisport occasions by to 2028, together with:
-Asian Video games 2026 (Aichi-Nagoya, Japan)
-African Video games 2027 (Cairo, Egypt)
-PanAm Video games 2027 (Lima, Peru), the place cricket will make its debut
-At LA28, each the lads’s and ladies’s T20 occasions will function six groups every, comprising 28 matches in complete.
The ICC Board confirmed its approval to problem an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for Video Gaming Rights, opening the door for main international companions to collaborate with the ICC in delivering world-class, digital fan experiences. This marks a big step ahead in increasing the sport’s digital and leisure footprint.
The Board additionally agreed to discover new industrial and innovation alternatives by an information consolidation challenge as a part of the ICC’s broader technique to unlock new industrial streams. The challenge will concentrate on leveraging information clusters to drive AI-powered fan engagement and enhanced analytics in addition to deeper client understanding throughout the cricket eco-system. The initiative will search to assist ICC Members with new industrial alternatives.
Reflecting the ICC’s dedication to equitable progress, the Board authorised a rise of almost 10 per cent in distribution for funds to its Affiliate Members for the yr 2026. The uplift in funding will allow these international locations to take a position additional in home packages, high-performance constructions, and cricket growth throughout rising areas.
The ICC acquired its first replace on ‘Challenge USA’, which was launched following the suspension of USA Cricket and in keeping with the ICC’s directive that the industrial and growth pursuits of gamers within the US nationwide groups shouldn’t be negatively impacted by the suspension of the Board as a consequence of non-compliance with the ICC’s laws. The challenge is targeted on constructing an optimized runway to Cricket’s inclusion within the LA 2028 Olympic Video games and enhancing efficiency pathways for the US nationwide groups by ongoing participation in ICC Occasions. (ANI)
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