Mozambique women's national cricket team

Mozambique
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Mozambican Cricket Association logo
AssociationMozambican Cricket Association
Personnel
CaptainOlga Matsolo
International Cricket Council
ICC statusAssociate member[1] (2017)
Affiliate member (2003)
ICC regionAfrica
ICC Rankings Current[2] Best-ever
WT20I 47th 36th (22 Dec 2022)
Women's Twenty20 Internationals
First WT20Iv.  Sierra Leone at Botswana Cricket Association Oval 1, Gaborone; 20 August 2018
Last WT20Iv.  Lesotho at Botswana Cricket Association Oval 1, Gaborone; 26 April 2024
WT20Is Played Won/Lost
Total[3] 38 16/22
(0 ties, 0 no results)
This year[4] 7 3/4
(0 ties, 0 no results)
As of 29 May 2024

The Mozambique women's national cricket team represents the country of Mozambique in women's cricket matches.

In April 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) granted full Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Mozambique women and other ICC members since 1 July 2018 have the full WT20I status.[5]

Mozambique's first WT20I matches were contested as part of the Botswana 7s tournament in August 2018 against Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Sierra Leone and Zambia (Zambia's matches were not classified as WT20Is as they had a Botswanan player in their squad).[6] Mozambique finished fourth on the table with two wins and three losses[7] and lost the third place play off against Botswana by a margin of nine wickets.[8]

In November 2019, Mozambique Women's team participated in T20 Kwacha Cup which was a 7-match bilateral T20I series against Malawi. All the 7 matches were played at Saint Andrews International High School in Blantyre, Malawi. Mozambique women lost the series by 3-4.

In December 2020, the ICC announced the qualification pathway for the 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup.[9] Mozambique were named in the 2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier regional group, alongside ten other teams.[10]

  1. ^ "Ireland and Afghanistan ICC newest full members amid wide-ranging governance reform". International Cricket Council. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  2. ^ "ICC Rankings". International Cricket Council.
  3. ^ "WT20I matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
  4. ^ "WT20I matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
  5. ^ "T20s between all ICC members to have international status". ESPNcricinfo. 27 April 2018. Archived from the original on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  6. ^ "Botswana 7s tournament: A complete round-up". womenscriczone.com. 30 August 2018. Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Botswana Cricket Association Women's T20I Series Table - 2018". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  8. ^ "3rd Place Play-off, Botswana Cricket Association Women's T20I Series at Gaborone, Aug 25 2018". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  9. ^ "Qualification for ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2023 announced". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  10. ^ "ICC announce qualification process for 2023 Women's T20 World Cup". The Cricketer. Retrieved 12 December 2020.

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