ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup Winners & Runners List

The ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022 edition is just a couple of days away from getting underway on March 4^th in New Zealand. The hosts will battle it out against West Indies in the opening encounter at the Bay Oval and the tournament will be played in the round robin format with the final slotted in to play on the 3^rd of April.

England will start as the defending champions as they managed to get over the line in a close final in 2017 against India and it happened to be their fourth title as well. So far, England, Australia and New Zealand have been the three teams to win the tournament since the inaugural edition.

The first edition in 1973 was won by England beating a strong Australian side. The Australia women meanwhile, have the most number of World Cup trophies with six to their name. The white ferns won the tournament once in 2000, and have made the finals of the tournament three times apart from that. India, surprisingly are yet to get their hands on the trophy despite making it to the finals on two occasions.

West Indies made their maiden finals in 2013 and it has been a pure domination from the likes of England women and Australian women over the years. It will be interesting to see if a new team can hold the trophy this time despite Australia starting as the favourites to win it hands down. The small grounds in New Zealand are expected to fetch a lot of runs for the batters and a number of high scoring games are on the cards this time around.

Here’s the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup Past Winners & Runners List: