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

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^[update], 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^[update]):^[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

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 v t e
Rank	Team	Matches	Points	Rating
1	Australia	25	7,426	297
2	England	30	8,447	282
3	India	40	10,417	260
4	New Zealand	27	6,904	256
5	South Africa	26	6,309	243
6	West Indies	27	6,340	235
7	Sri Lanka	31	6,988	225
8	Pakistan	33	7,279	221
9	Bangladesh	30	6,040	201
10	Ireland	27	4,748	176
11	Zimbabwe	21	3,352	160
12	Papua New Guinea	19	2,997	158
13	Thailand	34	5,326	157
14	Scotland	22	3,206	146
15	Netherlands	25	3,073	123
16	United Arab Emirates	41	4,845	118
17	Namibia	31	3,574	115
18	Uganda	44	4,894	111
19	Indonesia	16	1,648	103
20	Tanzania	27	2,717	101
21	Nepal	27	2,611	97
22	Hong Kong	37	3,364	91
23	United States	13	1,054	81
24	Kenya	36	2,657	74
25	Rwanda	33	2,342	71
26	Malaysia	34	2,369	70
27	Italy	20	1,319	66
28	Jersey	13	839	65
29	Nigeria	29	1,794	62
30	Vanuatu	18	1,101	61
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	15	518	35
40	China	9	256	28
41	Myanmar	10	275	28
42	Botswana	25	641	26
43	Bhutan	9	219	24
44	Bahrain	8	164	21
45	Oman	4	81	20
46	Kuwait	14	282	20
47	Singapore	21	382	18
48	Mozambique	9	154	17
49	Malta	6	100	17
50	Romania	13	207	16
51	Guernsey	8	95	12
52	Samoa	16	164	10
53	Japan	20	204	10
54	Cameroon	12	111	9
55	Cook Islands	6	53	9
56	Argentina	20	150	8
57	Denmark	5	29	6
58	Qatar	17	61	4
59	Austria	21	46	2
60	Cambodia	13	28	2
61	Norway	11	3	0
62	Fiji	16	0	0
63	Ghana	7	0	0
64	Philippines	9	0	0
65	Serbia	7	0	0
66	Eswatini	9	0	0
References: ICC Women's T20I Rankings, Updated on 18 December 2023

Statistics and records

Main article: List of women's Twenty20 International records

See also

•  Cricket portal
•  Sports portal

• List of women's Twenty20 International cricket grounds
• Women's Test cricket
• Women's One Day International
• Twenty20 International

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