The ICC have also announced another two new women’s tournaments to help further promote Associate Members, with the ICC Women’s Challenge Trophy tournament featuring five teams starting in 2026 and the first edition to be held in Rwanda.
The Challenge trophy will feature the top team from the five ICC development regions – Africa, Americas, Asia, East Asia Pacific and Europe – who are not part of the Emerging Nations Trophy, identified through their regional qualifying events.
The other new tournament will be an eight-team event that will commence in 2027 that will give Associate Member teams a chance to play some of the top ranked teams as part of ICC’s strategy to provide high performance support to Associate Members in the T20I format.
The name of this event will be announced in due course.