CompetitiveWomen's Twenty20 cricket is the newly emerging use of the Twenty20 match format in women's cricket. [1] The rules of Twenty20 are the same for both men and women. The matches of this format do not hold Twenty20 status, and those are not recorded in players' career statistics. [2]
Women's Twenty20 has only been an international cricket game format since 2004. In June 2009, the ICC held the first ICC Women's World Twenty20 in England. [3] The hosts became the first World Women's Twenty20 champions. [4] The Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup was launched in 2007, and was replaced by the Women's Big Bash League in 2015. In Britain, the Women's Cricket Super League was launched in 2016.
In October 2017, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed updated regulations for Classification of Official Cricket. It defined and clarified what what constitutes Official Cricket and what do not. According to those regulations, Competitive Women’s Cricket is considered as the highest level of domestic women’s cricket. The main features of the new regulations on what constitutes Competitive Women’s T20 Cricket and what do not are as follows. [5] [6]
| Nations | Tournament | Period | Current Trophy Holder |
|---|---|---|---|
 Australia | Women's Big Bash League [7] [8] | 2015–present | Sydney Thunder |
 England | Charlotte Edwards Cup [9] | 2021–present | – |
 India | Women's T20 Challenge [10] | 2018–present | IPL Trailblazers |
 New Zealand | Women's Super Smash | 2007–present | Canterbury Magicians |
 South Africa | Women's T20 Super League [11] | 2019–present | Coronations |
 West Indies | Twenty20 Blaze [12] | 2012–present | Barbados |
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