Women's Twenty20 cricket

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Women's Twenty20 cricket is the newly emerging use of the Twenty20 match format in women's cricket. While both women's cricket and Twenty20 have themselves enjoyed recent success, women's Twenty20 has only been an international cricket game format since 2004, with a mere 10 matches played between four teams.[1]

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[edit] Format

Main article: Twenty20

The format of women's Twenty20 is no different from that of the men's sport:

  • Bowlers may bowl a maximum of only 4 overs per innings.
  • Umpires may award 5-run penalty runs at their discretion if they believe either team is wasting time.
  • If the fielding team do not start to bowl their 20th over within 75 minutes, the batting side is credited an extra 6 runs for every whole over bowled after the 75 minute mark; the umpire may add more time to this, if he considers the batting team is wasting time.
  • The following fielding restrictions apply:
    • No more than 5 fielders can be on the leg side at any time.
    • During the first 6 overs, a maximum of 2 fielders can be outside the 30-yard circle.
    • After the first 6 overs, a maximum of 5 fielders can be outside the fielding circle.
  • If the match ends with the scores tied and there must be a winner, the tie is broken with a bowl-out (similar to a penalty shoot-out in football), with 5 bowlers from each side delivering 2 balls each at an unguarded wicket. If the number of wickets is equal after the first 10 balls per side, the bowling continues and is decided by sudden death.

[edit] Eligibility

In 2006, the ICC announced that only the top 10 ranked women's sides would have Test and ODI (and therefore Twenty20) status:

[edit] International matches

No. Date Result Venue
1 5 August 2004 Flag of New Zealand New Zealand defeated Flag of England England by 9 runs County Ground, Hove
2 2 September 2005 Flag of Australia Australia defeated Flag of England England by 7 wickets County Ground, Taunton
3 5 August 2006 Flag of India India defeated Flag of England England by 8 wickets County Ground, Derby
4 18 October 2006 Flag of Australia Australia tied with Flag of New Zealand New Zealand,
(Australia won bowl-out 2-1)
Allan Border Field, Brisbane
5 19 July 2007 Flag of Australia Australia defeated Flag of New Zealand New Zealand by 1 run Gardens Oval, Darwin
6 10 August 2007 Flag of New Zealand New Zealand defeated Flag of South Africa South Africa by 97 runs Taunton Cricket Ground
7 10 August 2007 Flag of England England defeated Flag of South Africa South Africa by 86 runs Taunton Cricket Ground
8 12 August 2007 Flag of England England defeated Flag of New Zealand New Zealand by 20 runs Bath Cricket Ground
9 13 August 2007 Flag of England England defeated Flag of New Zealand New Zealand by 5 wickets Bath Cricket Ground
10 16 August 2007 Flag of New Zealand New Zealand defeated Flag of England England by 38 runs Taunton Cricket Ground

[edit] Women's Twenty20 records

Totals, wins and losses

Batting

Bowling

Captaining

[edit] By country

[edit] England

Batting

Bowling

[edit] Australia

Batting

Bowling

[edit] New Zealand

Batting

Bowling

[edit] India

Batting

  • Highest score: Rumeli Dhar, 66*
  • Highest batting average: Mithali Raj, 28.00
  • Most 50s: Rumeli Dhar, 1[2]

Bowling

[edit] South Africa

Batting

  • Highest score: Johmari Logtenberg, 29
  • Highest batting average: Cri-zelda Brits, 22.00
  • Most 50s: - [2]

Bowling

  • Most wickets: Susan Benade, Johmari Logtenberg and Sunette Loubser, 2
  • Best bowling figures: Sunette Loubser, 2/30[2]

[edit] Notes

[edit] See also

[edit] External links