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Women's Twenty20 International

This article is about the format for women's international cricket. For the men's format, see Twenty20 international.

Women's Twenty20 international (WT20I) is the shortest form of women's international cricket. A women's Twenty20 international is a 20 overs-per-side cricket match between two of the International Cricket Council (ICC) members.[1] The first Twenty20 International match was held in August 2004 between England and New Zealand,[2][3] six months before the first Twenty20 International match was played between two men's teams.[4] The ICC Women's World Twenty20, the highest-level event in the format, was first held in 2009.

In April 2018, the ICC granted full women's Twenty20 international (WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between two international sides after 1 July 2018 will be a full WT20I.[5] A month after the conclusion of the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup, which took place in June 2018, the ICC retrospectively gave all the fixtures in the tournament full WT20I status.[6] On 22 November 2021, in the 2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier tournament, the match between Hong Kong and Nepal was the 1,000th WT20I to be played.[7]

The ICC has announced a new tournament starting in 2027 and called the ICC Women's T20 Champions Trophy.[8]

Involved nations edit

In April 2018, the ICC granted full Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members from 1 July 2018.[9] As of September 2023, 82 nations have played the format.[10]

The full list of teams who have played full Women's Twenty20 International matches, with the date of their debut, is as follows (correct as of 1 September 2023):[11]

  1.   England (5 August 2004)
  2.   New Zealand (5 August 2004)
  3.   Australia (2 September 2005)
  4.   India (5 August 2006)
  5.   South Africa (10 August 2007)
  6.   Ireland (27 June 2008)
  7.   West Indies (27 June 2008)
  8.   Netherlands (1 July 2008)
  9.   Pakistan (25 May 2009)
  10.   Sri Lanka (12 June 2009)
  11.   Bangladesh (28 August 2012)
  12.   Malaysia (3 June 2018)
  13.   Thailand (3 June 2018)
  14.   Scotland (7 July 2018)
  15.   Uganda (7 July 2018)
  16.   United Arab Emirates (7 July 2018)
  17.   Papua New Guinea (7 July 2018)
  18.   Singapore (9 August 2018)
  19.   Botswana (20 August 2018)
  20.   Lesotho (20 August 2018)
  21.   Malawi (20 August 2018)
  22.   Namibia (20 August 2018)
  23.   Mozambique (20 August 2018)
  24.   Sierra Leone (20 August 2018)
  25.   Brazil (23 August 2018)
  26.   Mexico (23 August 2018)
  27.   Chile (23 August 2018)
  28.   China (3 November 2018)
  29.   South Korea (3 November 2018)
  30.   Zimbabwe (5 January 2019)
  31.     Nepal (12 January 2019)
  32.   Hong Kong (12 January 2019)
  33.   Indonesia (12 January 2019)
  34.   Myanmar (12 January 2019)
  35.   Bhutan (13 January 2019)
  36.   Nigeria (26 January 2019)
  37.   Rwanda (26 January 2019)
  38.   Kuwait (18 February 2019)
  39.   Kenya (6 April 2019)
  40.   Costa Rica (26 April 2019)
  41.   Vanuatu (6 May 2019)
  42.   Japan (6 May 2019)
  43.   Fiji (6 May 2019)
  44.   Samoa (6 May 2019)
  45.   Tanzania (6 May 2019)
  46.   Canada (17 May 2019)
  47.   United States (17 May 2019)
  48.   Guernsey (31 May 2019)
  49.   Jersey (31 May 2019)
  50.   Mali (18 June 2019)
  51.   Germany (26 June 2019)
  52.   France (31 July 2019)
  53.   Austria (31 July 2019)
  54.   Norway (31 July 2019)
  55.   Argentina (3 October 2019)
  56.   Peru (3 October 2019)
  57.   Maldives (2 December 2019)
  58.   Belize (13 December 2019)
  59.   Philippines (21 December 2019)
  60.   Oman (17 January 2020)
  61.   Qatar (17 January 2020)
  62.   Italy (9 August 2021)
  63.   Sweden (29 August 2021)
  64.   Eswatini (9 September 2021)
  65.   Cameroon (12 September 2021)
  66.   Belgium (25 September 2021)
  67.   Bahrain (20 March 2022)
  68.   Saudi Arabia (20 March 2022)
  69.   Ghana (28 March 2022)
  70.   Gambia (29 March 2022)
  71.   Spain (5 May 2022)
  72.   Denmark (28 May 2022)
  73.   Barbados (29 July 2022)
  74.   Malta (27 August 2022)
  75.   Romania (27 August 2022)
  76.   Greece (9 September 2022)
  77.   Serbia (10 September 2022)
  78.   Isle of Man (12 November 2022)
  79.   Cambodia (21 December 2022)
  80.   Turkey (29 May 2023)
  81.   Estonia (26 August 2023)
  82.   Cook Islands (1 September 2023)
  83.   Luxembourg (5 September 2023)
  84.   Mongolia (19 September 2023)

Rankings edit

Before October 2018, ICC did not maintain a separate Twenty20 ranking for the women's game, instead aggregating performance over all three forms of the game into one overall women's teams ranking.[12] In January 2018, ICC granted international status to all matches between associate nations and announced plan to launch separate T20I rankings for women.[1] In October 2018 the T20I rankings were launched with separate ODI rankings for Full Members.[13]

ICC Women's T20I Rankings
Rank Team Matches Points Rating
1   Australia 34 9,982 294
2   England 35 9,875 282
3   India 43 11,252 262
4   New Zealand 32 8,163 255
5   South Africa 32 7,736 242
6   West Indies 27 6,340 235
7   Sri Lanka 34 7,773 229
8   Pakistan 33 7,279 221
9   Bangladesh 33 6,613 200
10   Ireland 32 5,783 181
11   Papua New Guinea 26 4,088 157
12   Zimbabwe 33 5,157 157
13   Thailand 39 6,064 155
14   Scotland 22 3,206 146
15   Netherlands 25 3,073 123
16   United Arab Emirates 47 5,718 122
17   Namibia 33 3,649 111
18   Uganda 48 5,263 110
19   Tanzania 34 3,468 102
20   Indonesia 20 1,955 98
21     Nepal 32 3,101 97
22   Hong Kong 41 3,691 90
23   United States 13 1,054 81
24   Malaysia 43 3,225 75
25   Kenya 39 2,903 74
26   Nigeria 38 2,676 70
27   Rwanda 42 2,874 68
28   Italy 20 1,319 66
29   Jersey 13 839 65
30   Vanuatu 23 1,627 58
31   Canada 9 513 57
32   Greece 11 613 56
33   Germany 15 766 51
34   Isle of Man 11 549 50
35   Spain 6 256 43
36   France 23 973 42
37   Brazil 20 846 42
38   Sweden 16 586 37
39   Sierra Leone 21 632 30
40   Myanmar 13 334 26
41   Botswana 25 641 26
42   Bhutan 12 302 25
43   China 12 294 25
44   Kuwait 21 487 23
45   Samoa 21 386 18
46   Singapore 27 485 18
47   Mozambique 9 154 17
48   Malta 6 100 17
49   Romania 13 207 16
50   Japan 24 363 15
51   Guernsey 8 95 12
52   Bahrain 11 123 11
53   Cook Islands 11 108 10
54   Cameroon 12 111 9
55   Argentina 20 150 8
56   Qatar 20 126 6
57   Denmark 5 29 6
58   Austria 21 46 2
59   Cambodia 13 28 2
60   Oman 7 11 2
61   Norway 11 3 0
62   Eswatini 9 0 0
63   Serbia 7 0 0
64   Philippines 12 0 0
65   Ghana 7 0 0
66   Fiji 21 0 0
References: ICC Women's T20I Rankings, Updated on 4 April 2024

Statistics and records edit

Main article: List of women's Twenty20 International records

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Women's Twenty20 Playing Conditions" (PDF). International Cricket Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
  2. ^ Miller, Andrew (6 August 2004). "Revolution at the seaside". Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
  3. ^ "Wonder Women – Ten T20I records women own". Women's CricZone. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  4. ^ English, Peter (17 February 2005). "Ponting leads as Kasprowicz follows". Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
  5. ^ "All T20I matches to get international status". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  6. ^ "ICC Board brings in tougher Code of Sanctions". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  7. ^ "Favourites Nepal eye for Global Qualifier spot". Cricket Addictors Association. 19 November 2021. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  8. ^ Jolly, Laura (8 March 2021). "New event, more teams added to World Cup schedule". Cricket Australia. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  9. ^ "ICC grants T20I status to all 104 members countries". Cricbuzz. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  10. ^ "Women T20I matches / Team records / Results summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  11. ^ "Team records | Women's Twenty20 Internationals | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  12. ^ "ICC Women's Team Rankings launched". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  13. ^ "ICC Launches Global Women's T20I Team Rankings". 12 October 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
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