The 2025 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup was the second edition of the Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup that was hosted by Malaysia in 2025. The schedule of the tournament was announced by International Cricket Council on 18 August 2024. India were the defending champions. Nigeria, making their first appearance in the Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup, achieved a surprise victory over New Zealand in the group stage.
India won their second consecutive title by defeating South Africa by 9 wickets in the final.
Qualification
The top 10 full member teams secured direct qualification. In May 2024, Samoa became the first team to qualify from regional pathway, after winning the East Asia-Pacific Qualifier. For the second time in a row, United States of America received automatic qualification for the World Cup as they were still the only team in the region to fulfill the criteria required to enter the qualification pathway.
+ List of teams qualified for the 2025 Under-19 Women's T20 World CupMeans of qualificationBerthsQualifiedHost nation1Automatic qualification10Regional qualification5Total16
Competition format The 16 teams will divided into four groups of four, and will play once against each other side in their group. The top three teams in each group will progress to the Super Six League stage, where qualifying teams from Group A will play against two of the qualifying teams from Group D, and qualifying teams from Group B will play against two of the qualifying teams from Group C. Points from matches against teams that also qualified from the first group stage will carried forward into the Super Six League stage. The top two sides from each of the Super Six Leagues will progress to the semi-finals, with the final taking place on 2 February 2025.
Squads
Each team could select a squad of fifteen players for the tournament, with additional non-travelling reserves also able to be named.
England were the first side to name their squad, doing so on 3 October 2024. Australia and Ireland announced their squads on 11 December 2024. Scotland announced its squad on 16 December 2024. Nigeria announced its squad on 18 December 2024. South Africa and United States announced their squads on 20 December 2024. West Indies announced their squad on 23 December 2024. India announced its squad on 24 December 2024. Bangladesh announced its squad on 26 December 2024. Pakistan announced its squad on 28 December 2024. Nepal announced its squad on 4 January 2025. New Zealand announced its squad on 8 January 2025. Sri Lanka, Samoa and the host Malaysia announced their squad on 10 January 2025.
Venues +PandamaranJohorBangiSarawakBayuemas OvalJohor Cricket Academy OvalYSD-UKM Cricket OvalBorneo Cricket Ground
Preparation The six Asian teams in the tournament (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Nepal) played the inaugural Women's Under-19 Asia Cup in December 2024 in Malaysia, the same host as the World Cup. Nigeria trained at OMTEX Cricket Academy in Mumbai, along with playing matches. Ireland and Scotland played a tri-series at Sevens Stadium in Dubai, which also featured senior UAE women's cricket team. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka played a four-match series at Colombo, which ended in 2–2 draw. South Africa hosted USA in a three-match series, which South Africa won 2–1. This ran parallel to USA men's Under-19 team playing the CSA Under-19 Cubs Week for the first time, and winning it. South Africa also toured Pune the previous month, to play a tri-series against two different Under-19 teams of India, where they finished runners-up to India B. Samoa took part in team training sessions and played in practice matches in New Zealand, conducted by Auckland Cricket Association. Thailand and Malaysia played bilateral series in each other's country, along with Thailand playing in JCC tri-series with Malaysian domestic teams.
Match officials On 13 January 2025, the ICC appointed the officials for the tournament.
Match Referees David Gilbert Dean Cosker Trudy Anderson Reon King
Umpires
Ashlee Gibbons Shathira Jakir Narayanan Janani Gayathri Venugopalan Aidan Seaver Rizwan Akram Nitin Bathi Rahul Asher Saleema Imtiaz Shivani Mishra Kerrin Klaaste Dedunu Silva Vijaya Mallela Maria Abbott Candace La Borde Forster Mutizwa
Warm-up matches The warm-up matches were played from 13 January to 15 January 2024, involving all teams.
Group stage Group A
Fixtures
Group B
Fixtures
Group C
Fixtures
Group D
Fixtures
Super 6 Group 1 Points table
Fixtures
Group 2 Points table
Fixtures
13th–16th place play-offs
Knockout stage Bracket
Semi-final 1st Semi-final
2nd Semi-final
Final
Final standings Pos.Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th
Records and statistics
Highest score by a team: – 208/1 (20 overs) v (28 January). Top score by an individual: Gongadi Trisha (India) – 110* (59) v (28 January). Best bowling figures by an individual: Vaishnavi Sharma (India) – 5/5 (4 overs) v (21 January).
Most runs Player Team Matches Innings Runs Average 100s 50s Gongadi TrishaIndia7730977.25110*10Davina PerrinEngland5517635.207401G KamaliniIndia7714335.7556*02Caoimhe BrayAustralia6511929.754501Jemma BothaSouth Africa6610526.253700Source: ESPNcricinfo
Most wickets Player Team Overs Wickets Average BBI 5wVaishnavi SharmaIndia22.0174.355/51Aayushi ShuklaIndia26.3145.714/80Kayla ReynekeSouth Africa16.4116.273/20Parunika SisodiaIndia21.2105.803/70Hasrat GillAustralia21.0108.502/90Source: ESPNcricinfo
Team of the tournament The ICC announced its team of the tournament on 3 February 2025, with Gongadi Trisha being named as player of the tournament, and Kayla Reyneke as the captain of the team.
Gongadi Trisha Jemma Botha Davina Perrin G Kamalini Caoimhe Bray Puja Mahato Kayla Reyneke (c) Katie Jones (wk) Aayushi Shukla Chamodi Praboda Vaishnavi Sharma Nthabiseng Nini (12th woman)
References
External links Tournament home at ICC Tournament home at ESPNcricinfo