WOMEN'S CRICKET

'Women's cricket' is the form of the team sport of cricket that is played by women.

Contents

History

Women's Test cricket

Women's ODI cricket

See also

External links

History

Women's cricket has a long history and was first reported in ''The Reading Mercury'' on 26 July 1745.
'''See main article at '': History of women's cricket'

Women's Test cricket

Main articles: Women's Test cricket

Women's Test cricket has been played since December 1934. Current international women's cricket teams include ten Test teams, as follows:

★ Australia

★ England

★ India

★ Ireland

★ Netherlands

★ New Zealand

★ Pakistan

★ South Africa

★ Sri Lanka

★ West Indies
Note that Bangladesh and Zimbabwe do not play women's Test cricket although they ''do'' have men's teams, and that Ireland and the Netherlands are Test nations in women's cricket but not in the men's game.

Women's ODI cricket

Main articles: Women's one-day international cricket


Women's One-day Internationals have been played since 1973. The first Women's Cricket World Cup competition was held in 1973, two years before the first men's Cricket World Cup. The following women's cricket teams have fielded one-day international sides but do not play Test cricket:

★ Denmark

★ Japan

★ Scotland
The following sides competed in the first women's world cup, but no longer field sides at this level.

★ International XI

★ Jamaica

★ Trinidad & Tobago

★ Young England

See also

★ Netta Rheinberg and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint, ''Fair Play - the story of women's cricket'', Angus & Robertson, 1976, ISBN 978-0207956980.

★ List of women cricketers

★ Vigoro

External links

★ Cricinfo Women

★ Cricketwoman portal

★ ICC Women's Cricket

★ A History of Women's cricket

★ Quatt CC Ladies

★ Stoke d'Abernon Cricket Club Womens Colts, Surrey