Cricket Association of Thailand (CAT) will be hosting the Asian regional qualifiers for Women’s World Cups (2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup and 2021 ICC Women’s World Cup) at Bangkok from Feb 18th – 27th, 2019.
As announced by ICC after the conclusion of their Board and Technical Committee meetings held in Singapore in Oct 2018, the regional qualifiers in 2019 will determine the pathway towards the global qualifiers for both T20 and 50-overs World Cups. There will not be separate regional qualifiers for 50-overs World Cup. The regional qualifiers will be staged in the T20 format across all five regions (Africa, Asia, Americas, Europe and East Asia-Pacific).
Thailand will host UAE, Kuwait, Nepal, Hong Kong, China and Malaysia in the 7-nation qualifier tournament. The top nation from the qualifiers will advance to the global qualifiers in both the 50-overs and T20 formats. All team’s will play the remaining 6 participants in a single round-robin format during the tournament.
All the participating team’s except Kuwait have already played competitive cricket in Thailand in the Women’s T20 Smash tournament a few weeks earlier and will help them in planning a bit better this time around to achieve better results as all matches will carry official T20I status towards ICC’s T20I team rankings.
Women’s WT20 Asia Qualifiers Schedule (Local Timings)
18th Feb 2019: Thailand Women vs China Women @9:30am ; Kuwait Women vs Malaysia Women @9:30am ; UAE Women vs Hong Kong Women @1:30pm
19th Feb 2019: Nepal Women vs Malaysia Women @9:30am ; Hong Kong Women vs China Women @1:30pm ; UAE Women vs Kuwait Women @1:30pm
21st Feb 2019: Malaysia Women vs UAE Women @9:30am ; Thailand Women vs Nepal Women @9:30am ; Kuwait Women vs China Women @1:30pm
22nd Feb 2019: UAE Women vs Nepal Women @9:30am ; Thailand Women vs Hong Kong Women @9:30am ; China Women vs Malaysia Women @1:30pm
24th Feb 2019: UAE Women vs China Women @9:30am ; Thailand Women vs Kuwait Women @9:30am ; Nepal Women vs Hong Kong Women @1:30pm
25th Feb 2019: Thailand Women vs Malaysia Women @9:30am ; China Women vs Nepal Women @1:30pm ; Kuwait Women vs Hong Kong Women @1:30pm
27th Feb 2019: Hong Kong Women vs Malaysia Women @9:30am ; Nepal Women vs Kuwait Women @9:30am ; Thailand Women vs UAE Women @1:30pm
