International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced the full Women’s Future Tour Programme for the cycle 2025 to 2029. This five-year period will see the Women’s teams participate in the ICC Women’s ODI Championship, trilateral series, LA Olympics and as many as five ICC mega-events. The global governing body announced Zimbabwe as the latest addition to the ODI Championship, which means that now all full-member nations, barring Afghanistan, who do not have a women’s team, will be a part of the Championship. The Chevrons will join the Championship from its fourth edition which will begin in 2025.
Each team will play four teams at home and as many in away conditions. Pakistan and India will, to no one’s surprise, only play in mega-events against each other.
| Teams | Home Fixtures | Away Fixtures |
| Australia | Eng, NZ, Ban, Ire | Ind, SA, WI, SL |
| England | SA, WI, ZIM, SL | Eng, Aus, Ind, Pak |
| Bangladesh | NZ, SA, Ban, Ire | Ind, Aus, Pak, SL |
| South Africa | Ind, Aus, Pak, WI | Eng, NZ, Ban, Zim |
| Pakistan | Eng, NZ, Ban, Zim | SA, WI, SL, Ire |
| India | Eng, Aus, Ban, Zim | NZ, SA, WI, Ire |
| Zimbabwe | SA, WI, SL, Ire | Ind, NZ, Ban, Pak |
| New Zealand | Ind, SA, Zim, SL | Eng, Aus, Pak, Ire |
| Sri Lanka | Eng, Aus, Pak, Ire | NZ, Ban, WI, Zim |
| West Indies | Ind, Aus, Pak, SL | SA, Ban, Zim, Ire |
| Ireland | Ind, NZ, Pak, WI | Eng, Aus, Zim, SL |
In addition to this, West Indies are scheduled to play Test matches during this period. This will be the first time in two decades that the Windies will play in the whites. Only a handful of Women’s teams play Tests including South Africa, India, England, and Australia. With the addition of a fifth team in this club, 15 Test games have been included in the FTP. On their return, West Indies will play the longest format against Australia, England, and South Africa.
Interestingly, the ICC has set aside separate windows for the Women’s Premier League, Women’s Big Bash League, and Women’s Hundred. From 2026, WPL will be played in January-February, while WBBL will run during November and the Hundred in August. Australia and England will clash in the Women’s Ashes during January of 2025, owing to which the windows for the leagues were allotted starting from 2026.
Teams will also play tri-series but the scheduling of these has solely been done by the member boards. Wasim Khan, ICC’s general manager, revealed that there will be as many as four such tours during this cycle.
“Ahead of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026, England will host India and New Zealand for such a three-team T20I tournament while Ireland will host Pakistan and the West Indies. Sri Lanka and the West Indies are among other Members scheduled to host tri-series, in 2027 and 2028, respectively.”
The purpose of the trilateral series is to give the teams time to train before mega-events, which are aplenty in the new FTP. In addition to the LA Olympics in 2028, where both men’s and women’s cricket teams will debut, the FTP has five mega-events for women. The chain of these multi-nation events will begin with the 2025 ODI World Cup in India, followed by a T20 World Cup the next year in the United Kingdom. For the year 2027, ICC will arrange a first of its kind, T20 Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka. The next two years will respectively see another T20 and ODI World Cup be staged.
