Women's Asia Cup
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The Women's Asia Cup (Asian Women’s Cricket Championships), officially known as the ACC Women's Asia Cup is a women's One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket tournament. It was established in 2004 and is a biennial tournament. The tournament is contested by cricket teams from Asia.[1]
Administrator | Asian Cricket Council |
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Format | One Day International and Twenty20 International |
First edition | 2004 ( Sri Lanka) |
Latest edition | 2022 ( Bangladesh) |
Next edition | 2024 |
Tournament format | Round-robin and knockouts |
Number of teams | 8 |
Current champion | India (7th title) |
Most successful | India (7 titles) |
Most runs | Mithali Raj (588) |
Most wickets | Neetu David (26) |
The first Women's Asia Cup was held in 2004 on Colombo and Kandy in the Sri Lanka. The 2020 edition was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic before being cancelled. The ICC has ruled that all the matches played in the Women's Asia Cup has ODI or T20I status. The 2012 Women's Asia Cup was the first event to be played in the T20 format. By the end of 2022, there have been eight Women’s Asia Cup tournaments with India winning the most number of titles (7).[2]