Set a calendar alert for 1 June, 14:00 local time: South Africa face Sri Lanka at Newlands, Cape Town, and the tournament first upset usually lands in this exact slot. Track the 3 June double-header at Boland Park too–last edition both games were washed out, so grab tickets for the 10-over shoot-outs that organisers schedule as backups.
Every side plays four group games in eight days, so net-run-rate decides knock-out spots more often than wins. Bookmark the ICC live standings page; refresh after the 5 June evening match when Group B margins tighten and a single boundary can flip positions. If you’re streaming, choose the local broadcaster feed–SuperSport carries the stump-mic audio that global rights holders mute, and you’ll catch the on-field chatter that sparks the next-day headlines.
Highlights drop on the ICC YouTube channel within 90 minutes of the final ball, but the 90-second clips leave out the super-slow-motion shot of Phoebe Litchfield lofted cover drive that analysts rave about. Download the Disney+ Hotstar app instead; select "wickets only" mode and you’ll still see that stroke in the mini-package before bed.
June Match Schedule & Time Zones
Set your phone to local Sharjah time (GMT+4) and lock these fixtures in now: 2 June 14:00 Bangladesh v Scotland, 3 June 18:00 Pakistan v Sri Lanka, 5 June 14:00 Ireland v Zimbabwe, 6 June 18:00 West Indies v New Zealand. Each group-stage clash runs under lights except the 14:00 starts, so you can squeeze a full match into a lunch break if you’re streaming on the ICC site.
Convert the 18:00 Sharjah slots for your zone without headaches: Sydney adds six hours (00:00 AEST next day), London subtracts three hours (15:00 BST), New York subtracts eight (10:00 EDT). Save a world-clock widget for Sharjah and you’ll never miss a powerplay again.
Super-eight Saturday lands on 8 June with a rare double-header: 15:30 England v India, 19:30 Australia v South Africa. The four-hour gap lets ticket-holders stay in the stands, re-charge phones at Gate-7 kiosks, and still catch the first-ball stream on Disney+ Hotstar or Sky Cricket.
Knock-out week compresses the drama into three consecutive nights: 11 June 19:30 semi-final 1, 12 June 19:30 semi-final 2, 14 June 19:30 final. Book late-night taxis before surge pricing kicks in; Dubai RTA runs extra post-match buses from Stadium Metro to Ibn-Battuta until 01:00.
Broadcast windows shrink for Americas viewers: semi-final 2 starts 11:30 EST, so mute Slack and watch on Willow browser pop-out. European fans catch highlights on BBC iPlayer by 06:00 GMT, while Indian users get 30-minute mini-matches on JioCinema at 23:00 IST.
Print this one-line cheat-sheet and tape it to your monitor:
- 2 Jun 14:00 BAN v SCO
- 3 Jun 18:00 PAK v SL
- 5 Jun 14:00 IRE v ZIM
- 6 Jun 18:00 WI v NZ
- 8 Jun 15:30 ENG v IND
- 8 Jun 19:30 AUS v SA
- 11 Jun 19:30 SF1
- 12 Jun 19:30 SF2
- 14 Jun 19:30 FINAL
All times are stadium local (GMT+4). Sync once, relax for the whole tournament.
Convert first bounce to your local clock in 30 seconds
Open your phone clock app, type "Dubai" in the search bar, and subtract the hours shown from your home city; that gap is the number you add or subtract to every 14:00 UAE start time listed for the Women T20 World Cup.
If you live on the U.S. East Coast, the 14:00 UAE toss becomes 06:00 EDT; West Coast viewers mark 03:00 PDT. London sees it at 11:00 BST, Sydney at 20:00 AEST, and Mumbai at 15:30 IST. Write those five numbers on a sticky note, slap it next to your screen, and you’ll never google the conversion again.
Daylight-saving shifts? Update the sticky twice a year: spring forward, fall back. For South Africa, whose matches start at 18:00 local, add two hours to the UAE offset you already wrote down; Cape Town then reads 16:00 SAST when Dubai shows 18:00.
Android users can long-press any fixture in the ESPNcricinfo app, tap "Add to calendar" and the app auto-adjusts to your device zone; iPhone owners screenshot the schedule, run it through the built-in Live Text, and Siri suggests the local time before you finish swiping.
Set a recurring alarm labeled "T20 WC bounce" for five minutes before each converted slot; when it fires, open the ICC TikTok stream for the pre-toss clips, and you’ll catch the first ball commentary exactly as your coffee finishes brewing.
Reserve streaming windows without calendar clashes
Block 90-minute buffers around every WT20WC fixture in your Google Calendar, set them to "Free" and color-code them "Indigo" so YouTube TV, Willow or Disney+ Hotstar can auto-queue the women match while your other calendars still show you free for overlapping MLB or EPL streams.
Split-screeners lose zero seconds by pre-saving the ICC Watch-Along playlist; its 17 clips per game drop at 22:05 UTC, five minutes after stump-draw, so queue them on a second monitor while the men Hundred draft streams on the primary–no overlap, no spoilers.
Set a 15-second offset on Apple TV: go Settings > Apps > TV > "Watch Next" and slide the alert delay right to 15 s; this forces the OS to wait for the women innings break before it bumps the NWSL or NBA thumbnail, keeping your home-screen row chronological.
If you track IST, add the WT20WC .ics feed (https://www.icc-cricket.com/tournaments/womens-t20-worldcup/matches.ics) to Outlook on Windows, tick "import as UTC" then run the free PowerToys "Awake" utility so the laptop never sleeps during 03:30–07:10 sessions and you wake to a finished download, not a dead stream.
Android users: in the Cricbuzz app, long-press any June 11–15 fixture, tap "Remind & Cast" select the Chromecast named "Bedroom" and toggle "Silent start"; the match opens automatically at 00:25 local, mutes for 60 s, and hands audio to your headphones before the Euro 2024 qualifier kickoff on the same TV at 00:30.
Ticket drop dates for sold-out fixtures
Set three phone alarms for 09:00, 15:00 and 21:00 BST every match-day morning; the tournament releases returned corporate seats in those windows and they’re usually gone within eight minutes. Tuesday 11 June India-v-Pakistan clash at 14:00 had 212 seats re-listed at 09:03 and none left by 09:09, so have your ICC account pre-logged and card details loaded in Chrome autofill.
Follow @T20WorldCup on X with post notifications on; they tweet the exact minute a drop lands. Pair that with the free "SeatSpy" Telegram channel that pings the moment inventory appears–both flagged 47 Pavilion Lower seats for the 15 June Australia-v-England semi-final at 11:07 last Sunday and the link stayed live for 11 minutes because the tweet came first. If you miss the public drop, check the host venue box office at 18:00; stewards hand back unsold hospitality packages at face value and you can queue online or in person.
Weekday group games still have pockets: 380 West Stand tickets for Bangladesh-v-Sri Lanka on 12 June dropped at 09:00 today and were still available at 09:40. Weekend fixtures resell faster; the 15 June final at Lord released 96 Compton Stand seats on 8 June at 21:00 and they vanished in 210 seconds. Prices reset to original tiers–£30, £55, £90–so you pay the same as the first buyers, no "dynamic" surge.
Still empty-handed? Put your name on the official resale exchange before 23:59 the night before the match; cards are auto-charged when a seller lists, so you’ll get an SMS at 07:00 next day if you’re first in the queue. Last trick: keep the https://likesport.biz/articles/nyla-harris-scores-15-as-no-22-unc-beats-virginia-tech-66-63-in-ot.html tab open in the background–its live-score sidebar refreshes faster than the ICC app and you’ll know the exact over when the next drop is announced.
Results Tracker & Turning Points
Bookmark the ICC official "Results" hub and refresh it at 22:00 BST nightly; every June Women T20 World Cup update appears there before media outlets rewrite it.
Australia two-run escape against New Zealand on 3 June sits at the top of the tracker. Megan Schutt defended nine off the last over, sealing the narrowest margin of the tournament so far and nudging the Aussies to 2-0 in Group A.
Turn the page to 7 June and watch Harmanpreet Kaur 71* off 47 flip India campaign. Chasing 150 against England she reached the target with a six over long-on, lifting India net run-rate from –0.12 to +0.78 and parking England on the brink of elimination.
South Africa 13-run win over West Indies the same evening hinged on two moments: Nadine de Klerk diving catch at backward point to remove Hayley Matthews for 1, and Chloe Tryon 19-run penultimate over that dragged the required rate from 8.2 to 12.5.
Bangladesh stunned Pakistan on 9 June, bowling them out for 94, the lowest total of the group stage. The upset shoved Pakistan NRR down to –1.63, forcing them to beat both India and Australia by sizeable margins to stay alive.
Keep an eye on 11 June: if New Zealand can topple Sri Lanka in Sharjah they climb to four points, but a loss knocks them out and books the final semi-final slot for the winner of India-England later that night.
Ball-by-ball links for super-over thrillers
Book-mark the ICC live-blog page before the first ball is bowled; it auto-refreshes every 15 s and carries a one-click "super-over" filter that isolates the six-ball sequence plus the two replay angles used by the TV umpire.
ESPNcricinfo Match Centre hides a tiny "S-O" icon beside the scoreboard–tap it and you land on a dedicated URL that stitches together each ball with the Hawkeye graphic (pace, release point, drift) and the crowd-noise waveform. Copy that URL, replace the match ID in the string with the next fixture number, and you have the same deep-link ready for every potential tie.
Sky Sports’ YouTube playlist uploads the super-over segment as a 3-min 4K clip within nine minutes of the final run; append &t=1m12s to skip the pre-ball chatter and land exactly on the first legitimate delivery. Pair this with the BBC ball-by-ball XML feed–grab the attribute superOver="true"–and you can automate a Telegram bot that pushes the clip plus the text commentary to your phone before the on-field celebrations finish.
| Source | Link format | Update lag | Mobile data per over |
|---|---|---|---|
| ICC live-blog | icc-cricket.com/matches/{matchID}/live?filter=superover | 15 s | 0.8 MB |
| ESPNcricinfo | espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/{matchID}/superover.html | 45 s | 1.2 MB |
| Sky Sports YouTube | youtube.com/watch?v={videoID}&t=72s | 9 min | 18 MB |
If you’re on a patchy 3G connection inside the stadium, switch to the BBC Test Match Special audio stream (48 kbps) and keep Cricbuzz text ticker open in a background tab; the latter pushes a 10-character hash with every ball–paste it into cricbuzz.com/h/{hash} and you get a 240p gif loop of that exact ball within 30 s without burning more than 200 KB.
Share the deep-link immediately after the super-over ends; Twitter compresses the URL but strips the time-stamp, so run it through tinyurl.com first and add the suffix "#so" to keep the jump-point intact for whoever clicks later.
Net-run-rate calculator after every wash-out
Copy the tournament standings table into a spreadsheet, add a column labelled NRR, and paste =(RS−RC)/(RO÷6) in the first cell: RS = runs scored, RC = runs conceded, RO = overs faced. Drag the formula down; the sheet refreshes NRR in real time once you update the no-result row with the abandoned-over count.
After the 12 June wash-out in Gqeberha, West Indies slipped from +0.821 to +0.744 because their bowlers had sent down only 8.1 overs before rain. Had the innings reached the 10-over mark, the NRR would have locked at the par 1.0 and kept them ahead of England. Punch the same numbers into any mobile calculator: 92 runs scored, 73 conceded, 8.1 overs becomes 8.167; (92–73)/8.167 = 2.326, but the system awards only 1.0, so the sheet must round up overs to 10.0 for abandoned games.
Keep a second sheet for "what-if" scenarios. Enter the forecast 7-over shoot-out between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh on 16 June: assume 60 for and 55 against, overs 7.0 each. NRR jumps to +0.714, enough to nudge Sri Lanka above New Zealand on head-to-head if points tie. Save the file as a cloud link and share it in the match-day WhatsApp group; reporters update it on the bus ride back and the numbers stay live.
Turn the calculator into a tiny web page: one input box each for runs, overs, opposition runs, opposition overs, plus a "rain" checkbox that forces overs to 10. Host it free on GitHub Pages; the entire script is 18 lines of vanilla JavaScript. Fans in the stands with one bar of 3G can tap in the fresh numbers before the ICC site updates, and the mini-site loads in 6 kB.
Bookmark the ICC XML feed (https://world-cup-api.example/standings.xml) and set a 15-minute auto-refresh in Excel Power Query; the NRR column recalculates on import. When the 20 June double-header in Cape Town ended with two no-results, the sheet flagged both matches in red, emailed you the revised table, and posted a 42-character summary: "RSA +0.512, PAK +0.456, IND safe at +0.987."
Q&A:
Which group-stage upsets in the June Women T20 World Cup changed the semi-final line-up?
The shock came on 8 June when Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka by three runs in Sharjah. That result flipped net-run-rate positions and pushed England ahead of Sri Lanka into second place in Group A, so instead of Sri Lanka facing Australia in the semi, England got the slot and eventually reached the final.
Where can I watch full replays of the June matches if I’m in the USA?
Willow TV has the rights. Replays appear in the "Matches" tab about two hours after the finish; look for the blue "Replay" badge. If you only have the Willow+ add-on via Sling, use the "Catch-Up" row on the home screen every June game is there for 30 days.
How did the UAE pitches in June compare to the last edition in South Africa?
They were slower and lower. Average first-innings score in June was 128 compared to 142 in South Africa 2023. Spinners took 43 % of wickets, up from 31 %, and only two batters cleared 70 in the whole tournament both in Dubai where the boundary on the school side is ten metres shorter.
Who was the highest run-scorer for India and what cost her the orange cap?
Smriti Mandhana finished with 219 runs at 43.80. She missed the cap by four runs to Beth Mooney, who got 223. Mandhana 35 off 32 against Pakistan in Dubai slowed by a late stumble against left-arm spinner Nashra Sandhu was the difference.
What time did the first ball of the June double-headers actually start local UAE time?
The organisers listed 18h00, but the anthems and light-show ran long, so first ball was 18h12 in Abu Dhabi and 18h09 in Dubai. If you’re planning for future tournaments, add 12-15 minutes to the printed start for the night games.
Reviews
Leo Hawke
Ah, June: when blokes pretend to care about 20-over "cricket" because the players wear pigtails and the camera lingers on victory hugs. Glanced at the score, saw "92 all out" and felt my Y chromosome yawn itself inside out. Still, better than mowing the lawn at least these women swing harder than my HOA swings fines.
Noah Voss
June bled white under floodlights, her eleven-run-over dying like a bad joke I’d told to impress a girl who then married the keeper. I sat in the stands, collar up, whisky from a hip-flask tasting of defeat and last year taxes, watching boundaries shrink to postage stamps while my exes fielded like vindictive angels. Somewhere between the Super Over and the hollow cheer a statistician whispered that fate now wears ponytails and neon gloves; I believed him, because the scoreboard refused to lie and my passport still holds the stamp from her heart void, like the last ball that sailed over long-on and never came down.
NovaLush
So the rain in Paarl erases six overs and my eleven-year-old niece asks why the girls still bother; I snarl that sport isn’t a dollhouse, yet here I sit, replaying that last-ball freeze-frame until midnight, wondering if anyone else feels the hollow in their ribs when the trophy keeps shrinking every June, or is it just my chest that learnt to echo?
IronVibe
Guys, if my wife can remember every T20 wicket while I forget our anniversary, does that make the trophy the real Mrs in our house or should I just accept that my ringtone is now a stump mic?
Liam Calder
Guys, if your cricket widow can smash sixes over cow corner while you burn sausages, does that make you the trophy spouse or just the scorer who lost the pen?
AriaSky
June T20 carnival? Same circus, shinier leotards. I watched rain wash out two games, then saw the Aussies pilfer last-over wins while the rest fumbled sitters. Broadcasters jammed in ads for razors I’ll never buy, commentators called sixes "girl power" and the ICC bragged about record crowds half the stands were tarp. My niece asked why the prize money buys a used hatchback; I shrugged, signed her poster, told her batting average beats wedding budget anyway.