These things will happen for the first time in the Women's T20 World Cup, Team India will do this after 25 years.
The warm-up matches in the Women's T20 World Cup 2024 are over. The Indian team won both its warm-up matches. Team India first defeated West Indies by 20 runs, then defeated South Africa by 28 runs. Now it is the turn of the group stage matches of the tournament. Although the tournament will start on October 3, India's journey is to begin against New Zealand on October 4. This time the tournament is special in many ways because many things are going to happen for the first time in the Women's T20 World Cup.
10 teams are participating in the T20 World Cup 2024, which have been divided into two groups of 5 each. First, let's talk about Team India. The Indian team has to play 4 matches in the group stage, in which it will have to face New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Australia. India has to play the last match of the group stage against Australia in Sharjah. This will be the first time in the last 25 years that India's men's or women's team will play a match at this venue.
Many matches of the T20 World Cup will be held in Dubai. All the 10 teams participating in the tournament have never played any T20 International match in Dubai before. That is, Dubai will host these teams for the first time. Apart from this, this is the first time that the Women's T20 World Cup is going to be held at a neutral venue. Earlier, this tournament used to be hosted by one or the other team participating in the tournament. This time the hosting was with Bangladesh but due to political upheaval, the tournament had to be shifted to UAE, due to which the venue became neutral for all the teams.
ICC recently took a big step to promote equality and made the prize money of the Women's T20 World Cup equal to that of the Men's T20 World Cup. In the last edition, the prize money was 1 million dollars, which has been increased by 134 percent to 2.34 million dollars. Now it remains to be seen whether defending champion Australia can capture this increased prize money, that is, whether a new champion emerges in the tournament.