Womens Cricket World Cup: Bengaluru matches moved to Navi Mumbai

Navi Mumbai has changed Bengaluru as a venue to host the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup, to be performed in India and Sri Lanka from September 30.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced on Friday (August 22, 2025) that every one the matches that had been to be staged on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, together with provisionally the ultimate, will now be performed on the Dr. D.Y. Patil Stadium.

The venue change was necessitated as a result of Chinnaswamy Stadium failing to get clearance from the native authorities within the aftermath of the stampede outdoors the stadium in the course of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s celebration on June 4.

“Navi Mumbai has emerged as a real dwelling for ladies’s cricket lately. The assist it has acquired throughout worldwide fixtures and the Women’s Premier League has been outstanding, creating an environment that elevates the gamers and conjures up followers. I’m sure that the identical power will outline the massive matches of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup because it returns to India after 12 years,” ICC chairman Jay Shah stated in an announcement on Friday (August 22, 2025).

“While unexpected circumstances required us to regulate the schedule and change a venue, we’re happy to now have a line-up of 5 world-class venues that may showcase the easiest of the ladies’s recreation. The stage is about, and I’m assured this match will seize imaginations and encourage a brand new era of followers.”

With the Karnataka State Cricket Association formally informing the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) — the match host — final week about its incapacity to host, Thiruvananthapuram was thought-about as the primary option to stage the video games.

However, logistical challenges — with Thiruvananthapuram airport not having direct flight connectivity to any of the opposite 4 match venues — meant it dropped out of the race regardless of the Kerala Cricket Association’s willingness to host the matches at a brief discover.

The non-public stadium on the outskirts of Mumbai then emerged because the pure selection. Considering that the monsoon recedes from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region early October, Navi Mumbai will host its first recreation on October 20.

With Bengaluru out of rivalry, the BCCI is known to have pushed for Guwahati — the hometown of its secretary — to stage the ultimate. The negotiations resulted in Guwahati being awarded the opening recreation (earlier in Bengaluru) and a semifinal, supplied Pakistan fails to qualify for the semifinal.

If Pakistan qualifies, it would play its semifinal in Colombo, its base for the whole match. Navi Mumbai is assured of internet hosting the ultimate.