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Women's Twenty20 International
Highest governing body	International Cricket Council
Nicknames	WT20I
First played	5 August 2004
Characteristics
Team members	Full 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

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

The ICC granted Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members from 1 July 2018.^[9] As of September 2024^[update], 89 nations have played WT20Is.^[10]

The full list of teams who have played full WT20I matches, with the date of their debut, is as follows:^[11]

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
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Team	Matches	Points	Rating
Australia	33	9,671	293
England	36	10,118	281
India	42	10,941	261
New Zealand	35	8,875	254
South Africa	32	7,776	242
West Indies	27	6,488	240
Sri Lanka	42	9,591	228
Pakistan	39	8,551	219
Bangladesh	36	7,201	200
Ireland	30	5,652	188
Scotland	25	3,884	155
Papua New Guinea	19	2,915	153
Thailand	31	4,687	151
Zimbabwe	36	5,040	140
United Arab Emirates	50	6,324	126
Netherlands	23	2,809	122
Namibia	29	3,389	117
Uganda	42	4,630	110
Tanzania	25	2,570	103
Nepal	28	2,781	99
Indonesia	24	2,349	98
Hong Kong	41	3,668	89
Italy	22	1,838	84
Spain	12	909	76
Nigeria	33	2,499	76
Rwanda	52	3,898	75
Malaysia	34	2,548	75
United States	14	1,036	74
Kenya	41	2,858	70
Cyprus	7	462	66
Gibraltar	7	450	64
Vanuatu	18	1,078	60
Jersey	13	755	58
Canada	6	326	54
France	10	462	46
Brazil	18	819	46
Isle of Man	16	713	45
Croatia	8	328	41
Sweden	15	605	40
Greece	18	657	37
Denmark	13	473	36
Guernsey	12	423	35
Myanmar	19	664	35
Germany	14	486	35
Japan	26	838	32
Bhutan	16	501	31
Botswana	28	858	31
China	17	513	30
Sierra Leone	14	395	28
Kuwait	24	651	27
Samoa	13	304	23
Mozambique	12	270	23
Romania	8	126	16
Serbia	13	200	15
Argentina	17	232	14
Malawi	9	112	12
Austria	21	250	12
Cook Islands	8	82	10
Qatar	15	149	10
Luxembourg	11	104	9
Norway	13	116	9
Bahrain	9	76	8
Cambodia	7	15	2
Malta	15	28	2
Singapore	35	61	2
Oman	7	11	2
Mongolia	15	0	0
Eswatini	5	0	0
Philippines	8	0	0
Lesotho	9	0	0
Ghana	5	0	0
Fiji	13	0	0
Estonia	12	0	0
Cameroon	12	0	0
Bulgaria	8	0	0
Czech Republic	7	0	0
References: ICC Women's T20I Rankings, Updated on 17 November 2024