The ICC women’s Cricket world Cup 2025 began with history being made in Guwahati, because the tournament opener among India and Sri Lanka set a new benchmark for attendance.
A crowd of 22,843 became up at the ACA Stadium, making it the maximum attended group-degree suit in female’s global Cup history.
This document surpasses the preceding quality of 15,935, carried out throughout the India-Pakistan conflict inside the 2024 ICC girls’s T20 world Cup organization A fixture. The event has already been breaking new floor, introducing improved fan accessibility and supplying the highest-ever prize money pool in ladies’s cricket.
ICC corridor of Famer Sachin Tendulkar was complete of reward for the speedy upward push of ladies’s cricket in current years. “I have to well known the strides made inside the beyond few years. The ladies’s Premier League has been not anything quick of a game-changer,” Tendulkar wrote in his ICC column.
“It has provided the platform, visibility, and monetary protection that generations of female cricketers may want to only dream of. loads of credit ought to go to Jay Shah, who, during his time as BCCI secretary, pushed for equal fit costs for ladies and men and laid the foundation for the WPL. those steps may additionally appear administrative on paper, but in truth, they exchange lives. They tell every aspiring young female that her passion is valued equally. I also want to thank the ICC for announcing document prize money for this tournament, even surpassing what was once on offer
for the guys’s international Cup in 2023,” he stated.
The women’s Cricket world Cup 2025 marks the thirteenth version of the event, proposing eight teams competing for the game’s most prestigious prize. India won the first healthy at the Barsapara
Stadium in Guwahati, as they beat the Lankans.
