The Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) Board has authorised a sequence of strategic measures designed to speed up the worldwide development of cricket, strengthen the ladies’s sport, and reinforce the ICC’s long-term improvement technique.
The worldwide physique launched key figures surrounding attendance for the Girls’s ODI World CUp 2025. Almost 300,000 followers watched the occasion in stadia breaking the document for match attendance for any girls’s Cricket occasion. The match additionally witnessed viewership development and new information being set for on-screen audiences internationally with almost 500 million viewers in India.
The ICC, as introduced earlier, strengthened the expasion of the subsequent version of the match to 10 groups, versus the eight-team pool within the 2025 version.
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The Board reviewed the ICC’s ongoing engagement with the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Video games (LA28), as cricket deepens its footprint within the international multisport panorama.
Cricket is now confirmed to function throughout a number of multisport occasions by means of to 2028, together with the Asian Video games 2026 (Aichi–Nagoya, Japan), African Video games 2027 (Cairo, Egypt) and the PanAm Video games 2027 (Lima, Peru), the place cricket will make its debut.
At LA 2028, each the boys’s and ladies’s T20 occasions will function six groups every, comprising 28 matches in complete.
The board authorised a rise of almost 10 p.c in distribution of funds to Affiliate Members for 2026. The uplift in funding will allow these international locations to speculate additional in home programmes, high-performance constructions, and cricket improvement throughout rising areas.
The ICC Board ratified the appointment of a lot of members of the ICC Girls’s Cricket Committee, specifically Ashley De Silva, Mithali Raj, Amol Muzumdar, Ben Sawyer, Charlotte Edwards, and Sala Stella Siale-Vaea.
The assembly additionally concerned discussions on digital expertise, video gaming rights and the game’s leisure footprint.
Printed on Nov 07, 2025