The West Indies Women’s cricket team begin their bid for direct qualification to the 2021 ICC Women’s World Cup when they play at home to the visiting Sri Lanka women’s team in October.

Both teams will face off in three one-day international and three Twenty/20 International encounters, starting with the one day international series on October 11, with the other two ODI games on October 13 and 15 at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Trinidad.

The three T/20 internationals will be played at the Coollidge Cricket Ground in Antigua on October 19, 21, 22.

The series will form part of the new round of matches in the ICC Women’s championship which will be contested between the leading eight women’s teams in the world – the Windies and the Sri Lankans, along with Australia, recently-crowned world champions England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa from now until March 2020.

Following the conclusion of the ICC Women’s championship, the top three ranked teams plus the hosts (New Zealand) automatically qualify for the ICC women’s world cup 2021. The remaining four teams will have a second chance to qualify through the ICC Women’s World Cup 2021 qualifier.

The windies women are the defending world champions in the T/20 format and will be looking to get themselves geared up for a purposeful defense of the title on home soil.