Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 Points Table, Standings & Team Rankings

The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup begins on June 12. The group stage decides everything here. Twelve teams this time, up from eight, and that extra crowd makes a top-two finish harder to lock down than in any edition before it. Run rate counts from ball one. A blowout or a last-over loss can be the difference between a semi-final and a flight home, and all of it plays out across England and Wales.

Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 Points Table

The 12 teams are split into two groups of six. Each side plays the other five in its group during the round-robin. A win is 2 points, a tie or no result is 1, a loss is nothing.

Here are the current ICC Women’s T20 World Cup group standings ahead of the opening matches:

ICC Women's T20 World Cup Points Table

No	Teams	P	W	L	T	NR	PTS	NRR
1	Australia Women	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
2	Bangladesh Women							—
3	England Women	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
4	India Women	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
5	Ireland Women							—
6	Netherlands Women							—
7	New Zealand Women	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
8	Pakistan Women	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
9	Scotland Women							—
10	South Africa Women	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
11	Sri Lanka Women	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000
12	West Indies Women	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000

P : Played · W : Win · L : Loss · T : Tie · NR : No Results · NRR : Net Run Rate · PTS : Points

Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 Team Rankings

The table decides the trophy, but the pre-tournament rankings already tell you who the favourites are. Australia top the ICC WT20I list and walk in as the team nobody in Group A wants to draw. England are right behind them and head Group B at home. India, New Zealand, and South Africa round out the top five, which is why I would not bet heavily on any one group going to script. Scotland and the Netherlands earned their place through the qualifiers, and on their day, either could ambush a bigger name.

Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 Qualification Scenario

The rules for 2026 are simple, and brutal once the points get tight:

Only the top two from Group A and the top two from Group B reach the semi-finals.
Points from the five group games come first.
Teams routinely end the group stage level on points, and that is when Net Run Rate takes over. One heavy win or a narrow loss can swing a side’s NRR a long way, so every run for and against is worth chasing.
If two teams finish dead level on points and NRR, the head-to-head result or seeding splits them.

Once the top four are set, the Group A winner faces the Group B runner-up in the first semi-final, and the Group B winner plays the Group A runner-up in the second.