Women’s ODI World Cup 2025 warm up matches: Check out Team India’s schedule

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Women's ODI World Cup warm Up matches india schedule Minnu Mani of India celebrates the wicket of Freya Sargent of Ireland during the 3rd ODI Match between India and Ireland held at the Niranjan Shah Stadium, Rajkot, India on the 15th January 2025. (Sportzpics)

The ICC on Tuesday revealed the dates of the Women’s ODI World Cup warm up matches with India taking on England and New Zealand. Pakistan, meanwhile, will play their warm up as well as World Cup matches in Sri Lanka as agreed mutually by the BCCI and Pakistan Cricket Board. The tournament proper will begin on September 30 and end on November 2 and will be jointly organized by India and Sri Lanka.

Coming to the warm-up games, India will take on England in the first warmup game on September 25 at BCCI’s Centre of Excellence ground and then lock horns with New Zealand at the Chinnaswamy Stadium on September 27, three days before the start of the tournament at the same venue on September 30.

Pakistan will play their warmup games in Colombo on September 25 and 28 at the Colombo Cricket Club against Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka ‘A’ teams respectively.

Schedule announced for nine warm-up matches across four venues ahead of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 🏆 https://t.co/FVrwKui5j6

— ICC (@ICC) July 15, 2025

“In all, nine day-night matches will be played from 25-28 September at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, the BCCI Centre of Excellence 1 ground (both Bengaluru), R Premadasa Stadium and Colombo Cricket Club (both Colombo),” ICC said in a release on Tuesday.

Eight teams are competing in the round-robin warmups with matches across four venues in Bengaluru and Colombo.

Defending champions Australia, the only team not playing on the opening day of the warmups, start with a match against arch-foes England at the BCCI Centre of Excellence 1 ground on September 27.

The 50-over World Cup, which is returning to the sub-continent after 12 years, will be played from September 30 to November 2 at five venues — M Chinnaswamy Stadium (Bengaluru), ACA Stadium (Guwahati), Holkar Stadium (Indore), ACA-VDCA Stadium (Visakhapatnam) and R Premdasa Stadium (Colombo).