Women’s 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. The first Twenty20 International match was held in August 2004 between England and New Zealand, 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. 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. 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.

Involved nations

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

The full list of teams who have played full Women’s Twenty20 International matches is as follows (correct to 20 March 2022):

Note

• Zambia’s matches in the Botswana 7s T20 Tournament were not counted as T20 internationals as they had a guest Botswanan player in their team.

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. In January 2018, ICC granted international status to all matches between associate nations and announced plan to launch separate T20I rankings for women. In October 2018 the T20I rankings were launched with separate ODI rankings for Full Members.

ICC Women’s T20I Rankings v t e
Rank	Team	Matches	Points	Rating
1	Australia	33	9,600	291
2	England	39	11,060	284
3	New Zealand	31	8,275	267
4	India	40	10,625	266
5	South Africa	32	8,048	252
6	West Indies	31	7,468	241
7	Pakistan	30	6,778	226
8	Sri Lanka	18	3,631	202
9	Bangladesh	26	5,001	192
10	Ireland	24	3,948	170
11	Thailand	29	4,667	161
12	Zimbabwe	21	3,287	157
13	Scotland	18	2,754	153
14	Nepal	11	1,457	132
15	Papua New Guinea	11	1,423	129
16	Samoa	6	749	125
17	United Arab Emirates	11	1,330	121
18	Uganda	19	2,127	112
19	Tanzania	18	1,956	109
20	Netherlands	17	1,527	90
21	Indonesia	13	1,129	87
22	Kenya	14	1,179	84
23	Namibia	28	2,270	81
24	Germany	20	1,410	71
25	Hong Kong	13	875	67
26	China	11	698	63
27	United States	10	610	61
28	Brazil	17	940	55
29	Vanuatu	6	324	54
30	Japan	5	260	52
31	Rwanda	21	1,025	49
32	Belize	6	269	45
33	Myanmar	5	212	42
34	Kuwait	8	337	42
35	Malaysia	17	687	40
36	Jersey	4	160	40
37	Canada	8	303	38
38	Nigeria	19	602	32
39	Sierra Leone	10	316	32
40	Botswana	20	594	30
41	France	12	315	26
42	Oman	9	233	26
43	Argentina	15	345	23
44	Bhutan	4	91	23
45	Austria	16	296	19
46	South Korea	4	73	18
47	Malawi	10	158	16
48	Chile	10	124	12
49	Singapore	6	61	10
50	Costa Rica	7	68	10
51	Mozambique	17	97	6
52	Mexico	7	33	5
53	Peru	8	0	0
54	Mali	3	0	0
55	Fiji	6	0	0
56	Lesotho	3	0	0
57	Norway	4	0	0
References: ICC Women’s T20I Rankings, ESPNcricinfo, Updated on 10 November 2021

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