Women's T20 Asia Cup 2022: India to face Pakistan on October 7, Check the Full Schedule

The 2022 edition of the Women's Asia Cup will be played between October 1 to 15 and the news was confirmed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Jay Shah. He announced it on his official Twitter handle on Tuesday, September 20 including the full fixtures of the tournament.

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The tournament will commence with Bangladesh taking on Thailand and then India facing Sri Lanka on an opening day. The league stage will go on till October 11 while the semi-finals will take place on October 13 and the final scheduled on October 15.

This will be the eighth edition of the Women's Asia Cup. The 2022 tournament will be played in the T20 format. Bangladesh will be defending its title. They had beaten India in the finals of the last edition in 2018.

Nonetheless, India is the most successful team in the history of the competition. They have won the title a record six times and they would be eyeing their seventh Asia Cup crown.

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Meanwhile, the eighth edition of the Women's Asia Cup will see seven teams battling it out for Asian supremacy. They include the likes of the defending champions Bangladesh, former champions India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia, and the United Arab Emirates respectively. 

The Women's Asia Cup 2022 is scheduled to be contested at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium. All eyes would be on some of India's key players in the upcoming tournament including the likes of Smriti Mandhana, Harmanpreet Kaur, Deepti Sharma, Sneh Rana, Renuka Singh Thakur, etc.