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 very first Twenty20 International match was played on 5 August 2004 between England and New Zealand at Hove, ^{[2] [3]} six months before the first Twenty20 International match was played between two men's teams. ^[4] The Women's T20 World Cup, the highest-level event in the format, was first held in 2009.

Women's Twenty20 International

Highest governing body	International Cricket Council
Nicknames	WT20I
First played	5 August 2004
Characteristics
Team members	ICC members
Mixed-sex	No
Type	Outdoor Game
Equipment	Ball, Bat, Stumps, Cricket Helmet, Thigh Guard, Batting Pads, Abdominal Guard, Gloves, etc
Venue	Cricket Stadium
Presence
Country or region	Worldwide

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]

Involved nations

The ICC granted Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members from 1 July 2018. ^[8] As of April 2025 ^[update] , 93 nations have played WT20Is. ^[9]

The full list of teams who have played full WT20I matches, with the date of their first match, is as follows: ^[10]

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)
85.   Gibraltar (20 April 2024)
86.   Czech Republic (8 June 2024)
87.   Croatia (14 June 2024)
88.   Cyprus (17 June 2024)
89.   Cayman Islands (26 September 2024)
90.   Bulgaria (12 October 2024)
91.   Portugal (7 April 2025)
92.    Switzerland (28 May 2025)
93.   Finland (18 July 2025)

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. ^[11] 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. ^[12]

ICC Women's T20I Team Rankings

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Team	Matches	Points	Rating
Australia	31	9,260	299
England	46	12,751	277
India	44	11,581	263
New Zealand	34	8,600	253
South Africa	33	7,954	241
West Indies	35	8,433	241
Sri Lanka	38	8,672	228
Pakistan	33	7,247	220
Ireland	30	5,859	195
Bangladesh	34	6,535	192
Thailand	43	6,708	156
Papua New Guinea	19	2,949	155
Scotland	20	3,071	154
Zimbabwe	28	3,667	131
Netherlands	31	3,949	127
United Arab Emirates	42	5,161	123
Uganda	53	6,041	114
Namibia	40	4,504	113
Tanzania	25	2,580	103
Indonesia	24	2,414	101
Nepal	36	3,360	93
Hong Kong	50	4,484	90
Italy	27	2,371	88
Rwanda	53	4,356	82
United States	22	1,725	78
Nigeria	31	2,362	76
Malaysia	30	2,217	74
Kenya	36	2,527	70
Jersey	27	1,879	70
Switzerland	9	623	69
Canada	9	563	63
Spain	17	1,049	62
Vanuatu	21	1,244	59
Germany	23	1,284	56
Brazil	28	1,281	46
Myanmar	23	1,040	45
Isle of Man	27	1,199	44
Sweden	20	884	44
Sierra Leone	26	1,142	44
Denmark	19	799	42
Japan	26	1,043	40
Cyprus	18	712	40
Turkey	7	273	39
Gibraltar	12	447	37
Guernsey	13	442	34
China	23	699	30
Kuwait	22	668	30
Botswana	34	1,015	30
Samoa	18	526	29
Greece	26	662	25
France	14	352	25
Oman	6	150	25
Croatia	10	237	24
Austria	25	545	22
Bhutan	20	398	20
Mozambique	19	347	18
Qatar	16	277	17
Argentina	19	322	17
Romania	8	126	16
Serbia	17	246	14
Cook Islands	9	119	13
Malawi	20	246	12
Malta	17	200	12
Fiji	15	174	12
Estonia	17	174	10
Luxembourg	11	104	9
Norway	16	125	8
Philippines	16	65	4
Cameroon	23	92	4
Cambodia	7	15	2
Singapore	37	42	1
Mongolia	16	0	0
Eswatini	16	0	0
Lesotho	9	0	0
Czech Republic	16	0	0
Bulgaria	15	0	0
Belgium	8	0	0
Bahrain	15	0	0
Source: ICC Women's T20I Team Rankings, 24 July 2025

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

References

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