The Amazon Prime Video streaming service will provide coverage of cricket’s upcoming ICC Women's World Cup for free in Australia as the team looks to defend its title.

The platform will stream all 31 games from the tournament, which will take place in India and Sri Lanka.

Matches from the eight-team event will be available live, exclusive, and free via Prime Video, with viewers required to sign into a free Amazon account to access the content.

Prime Video will also offer 10- or 25-minute highlights packages from each match, exclusive and free, or viewers can tune into a full match replay from the first ball that will be available immediately after the match has finished.

Viewers who join the live broadcast late will also be able to use the 'Rapid Recap' feature to watch a highlights reel of the game's best moments so far before joining the live action.

The tournament begins with India hosting Sri Lanka in Guwahati on September 30, and Australia's campaign for back-to-back titles will begin a day later against New Zealand on October 1, while the final will be held in Mumbai on November 2.

Australia will be aiming to win a seventh World Cup title and become the first women's team to claim consecutive titles since 1988.

The last Women's World Cup was also available free-to-air to fans in Australia, after Foxtel-owned streaming platform Kayo – the rights holder at the time – provided coverage of the tournament after no free-to-air network purchased the rights.

The 2023 T20 World Cup in South Africa was also available on Kayo for free, however, last year's T20 World Cup in the UAE was available for Prime Video subscribers only.

In late 2023, Amazon's Prime Video was announced as the new exclusive Australian rights holder for all ICC (International Cricket Council) events until the end of 2027, with no free-to-air Australian broadcast of any men's or women's ICC tournaments under the deal.