Women's cricket

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

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

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

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

A small number of Women's Twenty20 matches have been played at international and domestic level.

ee also

*List of women cricketers
*Vigoro

External links

* [http://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/women.html Cricinfo Women]
* [http://www.cricketwoman.net/portal/ Cricketwoman portal]
* [http://www.icc-cricket.com/women/ ICC Women's Cricket]
* [http://www.ycb-yca.org.uk/a_history_of_womens_cricket.html A History of Women's cricket]
* [http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s511/st94779.htm Quatt CC Ladies]
* [http://www.stokecc.org.uk Stoke d'Abernon Cricket Club Womens Colts, Surrey]