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| Association | Cricket Board of Maldives | |||||||||
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| International Cricket Council | ||||||||||
| ICC status | Associate member[1] (2017) Affiliate member (2001) | |||||||||
| ICC region | Asia | |||||||||
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| Women's Twenty20 Internationals | ||||||||||
| First WT20I | v  Nepal at Pokhara Rangasala, Pokhara; 2 December 2019 | |||||||||
| Last WT20I | v Nepal at UKM-YSD Cricket Oval, Bangi; 13 February 2024 | |||||||||
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| As of 13 February 2024 | ||||||||||
The Maldives national women's cricket team is the team that represents Maldives in international women's cricket. In April 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) granted full Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, every Twenty20 match played between Maldives women and other ICC members since 1 July 2018 has the full WT20I status.[5][6]
The team played its first WT20I matches during the 2019 South Asian Games in December 2019.[7][8] In the bronze medal play-off match, the Maldives were dismissed for just eight runs, to record the second lowest total in a WT20I match.[9] Only one run came from the bat, with the other seven runs coming from wides.[10] Nine cricketers were dismissed without scoring.[11] Earlier in the tournament, the Maldives lost to Bangladesh by 249 runs, with the Maldives bowled out for just six runs in their innings.[12][13]
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- ^ "Head coach appointed to the historic 1st Maldives national women's cricket squad". Maldives Cricket. 23 November 2019. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
- ^ "Nepal's Anjali Chand makes history with figures of 6 for 0". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ "Records tumble as Maldives women's cricket team are dismissed for eight". News.com.au. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
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- ^ "Maldives women cricket team dismissed for 8 runs, 9 players out for zero". India Today. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
- ^ "Bangladesh women demolish Maldives". Dhaka Tribune. 5 December 2019. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- ^ "SAG 2019: 9 players out for duck, cricket team bowled out for 8". Hindustan Times. 7 December 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2019.