Baseball and softball tournaments

The big ones

• World titles · About every 3 years (2023, 2026; next 2030)World Baseball Classic →

  Holder

  Venezuela, 3–2 against the United States in Miami

  Next

  2030

  India

  Has not played

  The best-known national-team baseball event, with major-league players

• At the multi-sport Games · Every 4 yearsOlympic Games (baseball and softball) →

  Latest

  Japan won both

  Next

  Los Angeles 2028, six teams in each

  India

  Has not played either

  Back on the programme at Los Angeles 2028

• World titles · Every 4 years (2015, 2019, 2024)WBSC Premier12 →

  Holder

  Chinese Taipei

  Next

  2027, hosted by Japan and Taiwan, sixteen teams

  India

  Has not played

  The WBSC's world event for the top twelve ranked nations

• World titles · Every 2 years, in two stages (group stage 2026; finals in Redcliffe, 5 to 11 April 2027)WBSC Women's Softball World Cup →

  Holder

  Japan, 6–1 against the United States at…

  Next

  Redcliffe, 2027, eighteen teams

  India

  Played once: 29th of 31 at Surrey, 2016

  The softball world title

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