Tournament organisers aiming to set new recordHost nation Australia no guarantee to make finalA huge crowd is guaranteed for the women’s Twenty20
World Cup final whether or not Australia qualify for the MCG decider after the International
Cricket Council confirmed more than 50,000 tickets have already been sold for the 8 March tournament finale.
There has long been an ambitious push for the match to break the official world record for the highest crowd at a women’s sporting event. To do that, the final will have to attract more than the 90,185 fans which saw the
USA defeat
China to win the 1999 Fifa Women’s World Cup at the Rose Bowl in California.