ICC Women's Championship
The first edition was the 2014–16 ICC Women's Championship, which started in April 2014 and was concluded in November 2016.[2] The second edition of the tournament started in October 2017, with the top four teams automatically qualifying for the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup.[3] In September 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that they were exploring the option to expand the IWC to all ten teams, therefore including Bangladesh and Ireland in future editions of the competition.[6][7] However, in November 2021, the qualifier tournament was called off midway through,[8] due to the discovery of a new variant of COVID-19 in Southern Africa.[9] Therefore, Bangladesh and Ireland joined the IWC for the 2022–25 cycle,[10] based on their ODI rankings.