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Women's Twenty20 International

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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 Cup.[8]

Involved nationsEdit

In April 2018, the ICC granted full Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members from 1 July 2018.[9]

The full list of teams who have played full Women's Twenty20 International matches is as follows (correct to 21 December 2022):

RankingsEdit

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.[10] 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.[11]

ICC Women's T20I Rankings
Rank Team Matches Points Rating
1   Australia 29 8,750 302
2   England 35 9,886 282
3   New Zealand 28 7,511 268
4   India 46 12,186 265
5   South Africa 27 6,831 253
6   West Indies 27 6,157 228
7   Pakistan 30 6,592 220
8   Sri Lanka 27 5,531 213
9   Bangladesh 26 4,907 189
10   Ireland 26 4,629 178
11   Zimbabwe 20 3,239 162
12   Papua New Guinea 15 2,396 160
13   Thailand 22 3,447 157
14   Scotland 15 2,142 143
15   United Arab Emirates 31 4,093 132
16   Tanzania 19 2,124 112
17     Nepal 19 2,093 110
18   Netherlands 13 1,418 109
19   Namibia 21 2,189 104
20   Indonesia 8 826 103
21   Uganda 29 2,910 100
22   Hong Kong 18 1,573 87
23   Kenya 25 2,171 87
24   Jersey 6 458 76
25   United States 14 971 69
26   Italy 12 721 60
27   Rwanda 19 1,126 59
28   Malaysia 24 1,404 59
29   Nigeria 18 947 53
30   Sweden 10 495 50
31   Germany 20 952 48
32   Brazil 19 900 47
33   Canada 6 277 46
34   Belize 3 135 45
35   Vanuatu 10 444 44
36   Spain 8 256 32
37   Mozambique 12 328 27
38   Sierra Leone 7 173 25
39   France 9 214 24
40   Bhutan 9 207 23
41   Botswana 15 345 23
42   Oman 13 289 22
43   Samoa 10 205 21
44   Singapore 18 367 20
45   Malawi 4 71 18
46   Kuwait 16 278 17
47   Bahrain 8 138 17
48   Romania 7 105 15
49   Qatar 21 245 12
50   Costa Rica 3 34 11
51   Argentina 12 95 8
52   Austria 16 99 6
53   Cambodia 11 65 6
54   Philippines 8 42 5
55   Fiji 10 28 3
56   Eswatini 9 0 0
57   Peru 5 0 0
58   Norway 9 0 0
References: ICC Women's T20I Rankings, ESPNcricinfo, Updated on 22 March 2023

Statistics and recordsEdit

Main article: List of women's Twenty20 International records

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  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. ^ "ICC Women's Team Rankings launched". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  11. ^ "ICC Launches Global Women's T20I Team Rankings". 12 October 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
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