The 2023 Women's T20 World Cup was the eighth edition of Women's T20 World Cup tournament. It was held in South Africa between 10 February and 26 February 2023. The final took place at Cape Town. Australia won their sixth and third consecutive title after beating the hosts South Africa in the final by 19 runs.
Teams and qualification In December 2020 the ICC confirmed the qualification process for the tournament. South Africa automatically qualified for the tournament as the hosts. They were joined by the seven highest ranked teams in the ICC Women's T20I Rankings, as of 30 November 2021, who competed at the 2020 Women's T20 World Cup in Australia. The remaining two teams were Ireland and Bangladesh, the finalists of the qualifying tournament.
Team Qualification Host Nation Automatic qualification Via qualifying tournament
Squads
Each team selected a squad of 15 players before the tournament, and was able to replace any injured players. Pakistan were the first to name their squad on 14 December 2022.
Venues In August 2022, the ICC announced that three venues in three cities would host matches. The venues were Newlands Cricket Ground, St George's Park and Boland Park.
GqeberhaPaarlNewlands Cricket GroundSt George's ParkBoland ParkCapacity: 25,000Capacity: 19,000Capacity: 10,000 Matches: 12Matches: 5Matches: 6
Match officials On 27 January 2023, the ICC appointed the all-woman panel of match officials for the tournament. Along with the ten umpires, G. S. Lakshmi, Shandre Fritz and Michell Pereira were also named as the match referees.
Match Referees Shandre Fritz G. S. Lakshmi Michell Pereira
Umpires
Lauren Agenbag Kim Cotton Anna Harris Narayanan Janani Nimali Perera Claire Polosak Vrinda Rathi Sue Redfern Eloise Sheridan Jacqueline Williams
Prize money The total prize money purse of US$2,450,000 was available for the tournament and was allocated according to the performance of the team as follows:
+ Prize money Stage Teams Prize money (USD) Total (USD) Winner 1 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 Runner-up 1 $500,000 $500,000 Losing semi-finalists 2 $210,000 $420,000 Winner of each pool match 20 $17,500 $350,000 Teams that do not pass the group stage 6 $30,000 $180,000 Total $2,450,000
Warm-up matches Before the T20 World Cup, the participating nations competed in ten warm-up matches, which were played from 6 February to 8 February 2023. These matches did not have either Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status or WT20 status.
Group stage The ICC released the fixture details on 3 October 2022.
Group 1
Advance to the knockout stage
Group 2
Advanced to the knockout stage
Knockout stage Bracket
Semi-finals
Final
Statistics Highest Run-scorers
Runs Player Team 230 Laura Wolvaardt 216 Nat Sciver-Brunt 206 Beth Mooney 189 Alyssa Healy 189 Tazmin Brits Source: CricInfo
Highest Wicket-takers Wickets Player Team11 Sophie Ecclestone 10 Megan Schutt Ashleigh Gardner 9 Marizanne Kapp 8 Shabnim Ismail Lea Tahuhu Source: CricInfo
Team of the tournament On 27 February 2023, ICC announced its team of the tournament picked by a selection panel featuring Ian Bishop, Anjum Chopra, Lisa Sthalekar, Mel Jones, Nasser Hussain, Ebony Rainford-Brent and Mpumelelo Mbangwa.
Tazmin Brits Alyssa Healy (wk) Laura Wolvaardt Nat Sciver-Brunt (c) Ashleigh Gardner Richa Ghosh Sophie Ecclestone Karishma Ramharack Shabnim Ismail Darcie Brown Megan Schutt Orla Prendergast (12th player)
References
External links Tournament home at ESPNcricinfo