Event Notes: ICC Women's World Cup Final A Sellout At Lord's

The Int'l Cricket Council Women's World Cup final at Lord's Cricket Ground sold out. It will be the biggest crowd ever at an ICC Women's World Cup match. More than 26,500 tickets were sold for the event. Media coverage drew a global audience of more than 50 million for the group stage games with ICC video content from the group stages being viewed more than 75 million times (ICC). 

Auckland's Eden Park "seems almost certain to host an England test against New Zealand next summer -- but it may not be the hoped-for pink-ball contest." New Zealand Cricket has been "waiting on resource consent from Auckland City Council to use the ground's lights on the Sunday of the second test of the marquee event of the season." The match has been penciled in for March 22-26. Resource consent for the Sunday night lights "is required under Auckland's unitary plan regulations (NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 7/18).