This is the first year that 12 teams will feature in the tournament, with nine countries participating in the inaugural event in 2009, increasing to 10 from 2014.<\/p>\n
That number will increase further to 16 teams from 2030.<\/p>\n
Australia have the best record, having won it six times, with England, the West Indies and New Zealand each holding one title.<\/p>\n
The teams in order of T20 International ranking are:<\/p>\n
Australia – 1st<\/p>\n
England – 2nd<\/p>\n
India – 3rd<\/p>\n
New Zealand – 4th<\/p>\n
South Africa – 5th<\/p>\n
West Indies – 6th<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka – 7th<\/p>\n
Pakistan – 8th<\/p>\n
Ireland – 9th<\/p>\n
Bangladesh – 10th<\/p>\n
Scotland – 11th<\/p>\n
Netherlands – 14th<\/p>\n
England qualified automatically as tournament hosts.<\/p>\n
The next spots were given to the five highest-finishing teams from the 2024 World Cup, which were New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, India and the West Indies.<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka and Pakistan qualified through the ICC Women’s T20I team rankings in 2024.<\/p>\n
Bangladesh, Ireland, the Netherlands and Scotland secured the final four spots at the 2026 T20 World Cup qualifier in January and February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the first year that 12 teams will feature in the tournament, with nine countries participating in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}