How Women World Cup Started: At this time the 13th season of the Women’s World Cup is going on, which is hosted in the hands of India and Sri Lanka. Let’s know how the history of the Women’s ODI World Cup has been.
ICC Women World Cup History: Often people pay attention to more male cricket than women’s cricket, but do you know that the Women’s ODI World Cup started before the Men’s ODI World Cup. This is the 13 season of the first Women’s World Cup in 1973, while the Men’s World Cup started in England in 1975. At this time, when the Women’s World Cup is being played 2025, let’s know this history of the Women’s World Cup and know how the Women’s World Cup started due to a rebellion …
Who was Rachel Heheo-Flint
First of all, know Rachel Heheo-Flint is a resident of Volwarhampton Female cricketer Were. Those who were born on 11 June 1939 were fond of playing cricket since childhood, but she used to play cricket with boys. Once she was playing cricket in the field, then the police came there and stopped the game and stopped her game. But he did not say anything to the standing Rachel holding the bat. On this, Rachel asked that I was also standing with a bat, then why not data? On this, police personnel made fun of him and said that girls do not play cricket. Rachel took this matter to the heart and decided to become a cricketer.
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Women’s World Cup started from Rachel’s rebellion
Rachel continued to play cricket even after several difficulties. He had the idea of organizing a world level tournament for women, but no one supported them. Everyone said that this is a game to men, women do not play it. In such a situation, he found a businessman named Jack Howard, who was a fan of cricket. Rachel and Jack hosted the first Women’s World Cup in England in 1973 and the Women’s Cricket World Cup began from here.
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Rachel herself was a brilliant cricketer
Rachel played international cricket for England, from 1960 to 1989, he played 22 Tests and 23 ODIs, with 3 centuries and 1594 runs in the Test. At the same time, there were a century, four half -centuries and 643 runs in ODIs. England team also became the world champion under Rachel’s captaincy. For the first time under her captaincy, England won the World Cup, since then the Women’s World Cup is organized every 4 years. This time the 13th season of the Women’s World Cup has started from 30 September 2025.