2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup

The 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup was the eighth edition of ICC Women's T20 World Cup tournament. It was held in South Africa between 10 February and 26 February 2023. The final took place at Cape Town. Australia won their sixth and third consecutive title after beating the hosts South Africa in the final by 19 runs.

Teams and qualification
In December 2020 the ICC confirmed the qualification process for the tournament. South Africa automatically qualified for the tournament as the hosts. They were joined by the seven highest ranked teams in the ICC Women's T20I Rankings, as of 30 November 2021, who competed at the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia. The remaining two teams were Ireland and Bangladesh, the finalists of the qualifying tournament.

Squads
Each team selected a squad of 15 players before the tournament, and was able to replace any injured players. Pakistan were the first to name their squad on 14 December 2022.

Venues
In August 2022, the ICC announced that three venues in three cities would host matches. The venues were Newlands Cricket Ground, St George's Park and Boland Park.

Match officials
On 27 January 2023, the ICC appointed the all-woman panel of match officials for the tournament. Along with the ten umpires, G. S. Lakshmi, Shandre Fritz and Michell Pereira were also named as the match referees.


 * Match Referees
 * Shandre Fritz
 * 🇮🇳 G. S. Lakshmi
 * Michell Pereira


 * Umpires


 * Lauren Agenbag
 * Kim Cotton
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Anna Harris
 * 🇮🇳 Narayanan Janani
 * Nimali Perera
 * 🇦🇺 Claire Polosak
 * 🇮🇳 Vrinda Rathi
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sue Redfern
 * 🇦🇺 Eloise Sheridan
 * Jacqueline Williams

Prize money
The total prize money purse of US$2,450,000 was available for the tournament and was allocated according to the performance of the team as follows:

Warm-up matches
Before the T20 World Cup, the participating nations competed in ten warm-up matches, which were played from 6 February to 8 February 2023. These matches did not have either Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status or WT20 status.

Group stage
The ICC released the fixture details on 3 October 2022.

Statistics
South Africa's Laura Wolvaardt was the leading run-scorer in the tournament, with 230 runs. England's Sophie Ecclestone, was the leading wicket-taker, finishing with eleven dismissals.

Team of the tournament
On 27 February 2023, ICC announced its team of the tournament picked by a selection panel featuring Ian Bishop, Anjum Chopra, Lisa Sthalekar, Mel Jones, Nasser Hussain, Ebony Rainford-Brent and Mpumelelo Mbangwa.


 * Tazmin Brits
 * Alyssa Healy (wk)
 * Laura Wolvaardt
 * Nat Sciver-Brunt (c)
 * Ashleigh Gardner
 * Richa Ghosh
 * Sophie Ecclestone
 * Karishma Ramharack
 * Shabnim Ismail
 * Darcie Brown
 * Megan Schutt
 * Orla Prendergast (12th player)