40-442: The Original English Lady Cricketers were the first recorded paid women's cricket teams. The sides toured Great Britain between 1890 and 1892. The Cricketers were formed in 1889 by French-American entrepreneur Mr. E. Michael after he advertised for young single women "of good address and appearance, respectable, strong, active, not under 5ft. 6in. in height or over twenty-two years of age." Consisting of thirty players divided into
80-642: A 'Red XI' and a 'Blue XI', with an average of nineteen, the Cricketers played over sixty exhibition games throughout Britain in the summer of 1890, with each match reportedly drawing over 2,000 paying spectators. The first game, played at the Athletic Police Ground in Liverpool on 7 April 1890, attracted over 15,000 people, although games were often accompanied by other entertainments including animal performances. After public interest declined
120-578: A T20 tournament. The ACC intend to continue to run in it biannually, although on several occasions it has run every four years. The change to T20 cricket allowed the ACC to include more Associate nations in the tournament. The first ever Cricket World Cup was the Women's Cricket World Cup organised in 1973 by the WCA; it was based on an idea of cricketer Rachael Heyhoe Flint and businessman Jack Hayward . After
160-497: A half-day game on their 1926–27 tour of India , one of the only matches they lost on the tour. Because it was a women's team, the game is omitted from records of the tour. During the 1950s and 1960s, cricket was strongest in the urban centres Chennai , Mumbai , Delhi and Kolkata . The most-notable club in this period is Albees in Mumbai; many Albees players were female family members of prominent men's Test cricketers. In 1958,
200-438: A lack of structural support. Although women have historically played Test cricket and first class cricket , the focus of the women's game in the last 50 years has been mostly on limited overs cricket . The introduction of Twenty20 cricket (T20) in 2003 created more opportunities for the growth of the women's game. As well as competing against each other in tours , national teams also compete in several tournaments, including
240-429: A manner similar to that done for first-class matches. The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians created this category for the purpose of providing an equivalent to first-class cricket, to allow the generation of career records and statistics for comparable one-day matches. Only the more important one-day competitions in each country, plus matches against a touring Test team, are included. The categorisation
280-411: A time when amateurism dominated English sport, while others journalists believed women's cricket was evidence of "feminine muscularity getting just a shade too rampant." W. G. Grace commented that the sides had been a dismal failure, concluding "cricket is not a game for women and although they occasionally join in a picnic game they are not constitutionally adapted for the sport." Marjorie Pollard of
320-833: Is also growing, especially in South Asia . The first recorded cricket match between women was reported in The Reading Mercury on 26 July 1745; the match was contested "between eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambledon, all dressed in white". The first known women's cricket club the White Heather Club was formed in 1887 in Yorkshire . Three years later, a team known as the Original English Lady Cricketers toured England, reportedly making substantial profits before
360-636: Is scheduled for early 2024 and a seventh – the Olympics – is scheduled for 2028. The 2023 African Games in Accra , Ghana will mark the game's debut in the African Games . Cricket made its debut at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou , China, with men's and women's T20 cricket matches. It returned for the 2014 Asian Games Cricket was removed from the 2018 Asian Games to reduce the burden on
400-575: Is the team sport of cricket when played by women . Its rules are almost identical to those in the game played by men, the main change being the use of a smaller ball . Women's cricket is beginning to be played at professional level in 11 of the 12 full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), and is played worldwide, especially in Commonwealth nations . The first recorded cricket match between women
440-666: The 1984–85 season , the most-recent being in 2020 . Before the start of the 2023–24 series , the Pakistan captain Nida Dar and South Africa captain Laura Wolvaardt revealed an as-yet-unnamed new trophy for their teams to contest. The Asia Cup began in 2004 as an ODI competition between members of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC). It initially ran every two years until 2008, then reformed in 2012 as
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#1732787340093480-706: The Cricket World Cup and the T20 World Cup . Women's cricket has also been part of several multi-sport events . In domestic cricket, many countries have T20 cricket and List A cricket competitions that are run either alongside or separately from men's competitions. Grass roots cricket is growing, especially in England and Australia , although many barriers still remain. Cricket boards often organise competitions that use new formats that are intended to appeal to women. Cricket for women with disabilities
520-583: The International Women's Cricket Council (IWCC) was formed to co-ordinate women's cricket around the world, taking over from the English Women's Cricket Association (WCA), which had been working in a de facto role since its creation 32 years earlier. In 2005, the IWCC was merged with the International Cricket Council (ICC) to form a unified body to manage and develop cricket. Much of
560-504: The Twenty20 International (T20I) was introduced; matches are restricted to twenty overs per side. Initially, women's T20 cricket was played little at international level; four matches were played by the end of 2006. The following three years saw a rapid growth in women's T20 Internationals; six matches were played in 2007, ten in 2008 and thirty in 2009, which also saw the first ICC Women's World Twenty20 . In April 2018,
600-439: The Women's Cricket Association (WCA) created a set of Ashes to be contested by Australia and England . The Australia and England men's teams play for their own set of Ashes . In 2013, it changed from being a Test series to a series of ODIs, T20Is and a Test to better reflect the formats of cricket women regularly play. The Rose Bowl is an ODI series played between Australia and New Zealand, and has been contested since
640-409: The Women's Cricket Association , an anti-commercial and pro-amateur organisation, wrote in the 1934 that the Cricketers "‘savoured of exploitation, and was not a genuine effort to provide cricket as a summer game." Women%27s cricket First-class cricket One Day International Limited overs (domestic) Twenty20 International Twenty20 (domestic) Other forms Women's cricket
680-418: The interwar period , women's sportswear became more available and the Women's Cricket Association (WCA) encountered something they named "the clothing problem". The debate about what women should wear when playing cricket was intense; a debate about it can be found in the minutes of every Annual General Meeting of the WCA from its foundation until its last AGM before World War II . There was tension between
720-565: The language of cricket is heavily gendered; terms such as maiden over, nightwatchman , and third man are not officially sanctioned but remain in colloquial use. In 2021, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) amended the rulebook, the Laws of Cricket , to replace the term "batsman" with the term " batter " to better reflect the modern game. There was some derision in parts of the cricketing and wider press but others responded that
760-562: The 13 teams with ODI status and all teams who play T20I matches. As of August 2023 , Australia top both tables. The ICC also maintains individual player rankings in ODI and T20I based on batting , bowling and all-round performance. References: ICC Women's ODI Rankings and ICC Women's T20I Rankings , 7 January 2024. The men's game has a long history of perpetual trophies but there are two only in women's cricket: The Women's Ashes and The Rose Bowl . In 1998,
800-538: The 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide and to promote peace through cricket. It is unusual among women's tournaments because there is no male equivalent. African nations including Botswana , Kenya , Namibia , Nigeria , Tanzania and Uganda , and the hosts Rwanda compete in the tournament. The Brazilian and German teams have also taken part. The word 'Kwibuka' means "to remember" in Kinyarwanda ,
840-542: The ICC granted its members full women's T20 International status. In November 2021, the ICC retrospectively applied first-class and List A status to women's cricket, aligning it with the men's game. In July 2023, the ICC announced equal prize money will be available for ICC global events, meaning future Women's Cricket World Cup and Women's T20 World Cup competitions will have the same prizes for winners and runners up as male competitions. The ICC maintains rankings of
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#1732787340093880-503: The Indonesian organisers. List A cricket First-class cricket One Day International Limited overs (domestic) Twenty20 International Twenty20 (domestic) Other forms List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket , with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which
920-463: The Rwandan national language, and is the title of annual commemorations of the genocide. Following the introduction of T20 cricket, cricket has been included at several multi-sport events ; the women's game is often added after the successful establishment of a men's tournament. As of August 2023 , five different major games have held women's cricket medal events; a sixth – the African Games –
960-480: The ball in the men's game should weigh between 5.5 and 5.75 oz (156 and 163 g), and be between 8.81 and 9 in (224 and 229 mm) in circumference. Many tournaments and forms of cricket , however, have additional differences in rules between women's and men's games. In the 2023 ICC rules, the main differences from the men's games are: By the June 2023 ICC rules for One Day International (ODI) matches,
1000-615: The design of equipment for women. The brands Kookaburra , SM Cricket, Viking, Gray-Nicolls and JPGavan all now produce equipment intended for women. The brands NEXX and Lacuna Sports have been launched in the UK to provide clothing and equipment to women who play cricket. Women's cricket has been played internationally since the inaugural women's Test match between England's and Australia's women's teams in December 1934. The following year, New Zealand joined them. in 2007 Netherlands became
1040-422: The main differences are: By the June 2023 ICC rules, the main differences are: Initially, like men, women played cricket in clothes that were similar to their everyday wear. With changes in womenswear in the late Victorian period , clothes for middle-and-upper-class women to undertake physical activity became more available. The Rational Dress Society had an outfit for cricket in its 1883 catalogue. During
1080-541: The manager absconded with the money. In Australia, a women's cricket league was set up in 1894 and Port Elizabeth , South Africa, had a women's cricket team named the Pioneers Cricket Club . In Canada, a women's cricket team in Victoria played at Beacon Hill Park . In India, cricket teams for women existed as early as the 1920s. Delhi Ladies Cricket Club beat the men's Marylebone Cricket Club in
1120-452: The managers absconded with the funds and the team was disbanded. Most women's cricket at the time was played behind closed doors at colleges such as Royal Holloway and Bedford College . While a matron was hired to chaperone all the Cricketers' engagements, and playing outfits were designed to limit bare skin, the press largely reacted negatively to the venture. The fact players were paid was deemed socially unacceptable to many journalists at
1160-509: The men's game. Most Test cricketing nations have some form of domestic List A competition. The scheduled number of overs in List A cricket ranges from forty to sixty overs per side, mostly commonly fifty overs. The categorisation of cricket matches as "List A" was not officially endorsed by the International Cricket Council until 2006, when the ICC announced it, along with its member associations, would be determining this classification in
1200-670: The needs of female players who wished to wear comfortable, practical clothing, and the need to appear as "respectable" women to the public and to the male establishment who owned the cricket grounds. There was also anxiety about women cross-dressing and the need to maintain gender roles while playing sport. Photographs in the British press in the early 20th century often showed women playing cricket with bare legs and in bathing costumes but most played in more-practical clothing. Rules about women playing in white dresses and skirts were imposed on high-level women's cricket but in local games, it
1240-432: The number of overs in an innings per team ranges from forty to sixty, as well as some international matches involving nations who have not achieved official ODI status. Together with first-class and Twenty20 cricket, List A is one of the three major forms of cricket recognised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). In November 2021, the ICC retrospectively applied List A status to women's cricket, aligning it with
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1280-782: The playing uniform. For Test matches , scarves must be black or white but for ODIs and T20s, they can be black or the same colour as the team cap but they cannot be white. Appropriate equipment has long been an issue for women in cricket. Players have often had to use poorly fitting small men's or juniors equipment, which impeded performance. England wicket keeper Betty Snowball avoided this problem by having her gloves and pads custom made. Many women players prefer smaller, lighter bats . Labeling of equipment has been exclusionary; equipment for children has been labelled as "boys" but this has begun to change. Present and former cricketers, such as Lydia Greenway , Ellyse Perry and Heather Knight , have been involved with leading changes in
1320-451: The success of the Women's Cricket World Cup, the men's tournament took place two years later. Seven teams competed in the inaugural tournament, which took place in England over five and a half weeks. Each ODI match was 60 overs and every team played each other in a round-robin league format. Subsequent tournaments were hampered by lack of funds for women's teams, meaning their scheduling
1360-438: The tan lines between the bottom of the skirts and the socks. The New Zealand team were given a sewing pattern and fabric, and were expected to make their uniforms or have them made. According to the 2023 ICC rules, the rules on men's and women's attire in international cricket are identical. The only gender-specific clothing rule allows cricketers to wear hijab in ICC events provided it does not obscure any logos and names on
1400-477: The tenth women's Test nation in their debut against South Africa . A total of 145 women's Test matches have been played. Women's One Day Internationals (ODIs) were introduced in 1973 at the inaugural Women's Cricket World Cup . The 1,000th women's ODI took place in 2016. Australia has dominated the format, having claimed the World Cup six times and won 80% of their matches. In 2004, a shorter-still format,
1440-401: The term "batter" had been in widespread use through much of the 18th and 19th centuries. In The Laws of Cricket , the only explicit difference between men's and women's cricket is the ball size. According to The Laws of Cricket : Clause 4.6.1 Women’s cricket Weight: from 4.94 ounces/140 g to 5.31 ounces/151 g Circumference: from 8.25 in/21.0 cm to 8.88 in/22.5 cm. For comparison,
1480-463: Was common to play in flannels of any colour. Following England's first tour of Australia and New Zealand , the England , Australia and New Zealand teams adopted the white divided skirts as part of their uniforms. England continued to play in skirts until 1997. Diving for the ball in a skirt risked injury and friction burns . The move to trousers eliminated this danger for women players, and
1520-400: Was held in England on 26 July 1745. The game continued to be played socially by women until clubs for women were formed in the late 1800s. In 1926, the creation of the Women's Cricket Association (WCA) in England began the process of formalising the game and organising international matches . Like many women's sports , the further development of women's cricket was hampered by sexism and
1560-596: Was inconsistent for many years. The 1997 World Cup was the first to be played with 50 overs and a knock-out stage. Since the inaugural tournament, there have been 12 World Cups with the 13th planned for 2025 in India. Originally called the "Kwibuka Cricket for Peace Women's T20 Tournament", the Kwibuka T20 Tournament is an annual T20 tournament that is played in Rwanda. It was founded in 2014 to mark
1600-497: Was the work of Philip Bailey. • Australia A cricket team • Afghanistan A cricket team • Bangladesh A cricket team • England A cricket team • India A cricket team • Ireland A cricket team • New Zealand A cricket team • Pakistan A cricket team • South Africa A cricket team • Sri Lanka A cricket team • West Indies A cricket team • Zimbabwe A cricket team Matches were divided into three categories: The first match retrospectively designated as
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