India Women's National Cricket Team

It is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and is a full member of International Cricket Council (ICC) with Women's Test cricket, Women's One Day International (WODI), and Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status.

India

Nickname(s)	Women in Blue
Association	Board of Control for Cricket in India
Personnel
Captain	Harmanpreet Kaur
Coach	Amol Muzumdar
History
Test status acquired	1976
International Cricket Council
ICC status	Full member (1926)
ICC region	Asia
ICC Rankings Current Best-ever WODI 4th 2nd (1 May 2020) WT20I 3rd 3rd (15 Nov 2019)
Women's Tests
First WTest	v  West Indies at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore; 31 October – 2 November 1976
Last WTest	v  Australia at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai; 21–24 December 2023
WTests Played Won/Lost Total 40 7/6 (27 draws) This year 0 0/0 (0 draws)
Women's One Day Internationals
First WODI	v  England at Eden Gardens, Calcutta; 1 January 1978
Last WODI	v  Australia at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai; 2 January 2024
WODIs Played Won/Lost Total 307 165/136 (2 ties, 4 no result) This year 1 0/1 (0 ties, 0 no results)
Women's World Cup appearances	10 (first in 1978)
Best result	Runners-up (2005, 2017)
Women's World Cup Qualifier appearances	1 (first in 2017)
Best result	Champions (2017)
Women's Twenty20 Internationals
First WT20I	v  England at the County Cricket Ground, Derby; 5 August 2006
Last WT20I	v  Australia at DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai; 9 January 2024
WT20Is Played Won/Lost Total 179 94/79 (1 tie, 5 no results) This year 3 1/2 (0 ties, 0 no results)
Women's T20 World Cup appearances	8 (first in 2009)
Best result	Runner-up (2020)
Test kit ODI kit T20I kit
As of 9 January 2024

India made its Test debut in 1976, against the West Indies, and its One Day International (ODI) debut at the 1978 World Cup against England and also made its T20I debut in 2006, against England.

The team has made the ODI World Cup final on two occasions, losing to Australia by 98 runs in 2005 and losing to England by 9 runs in 2017. India has made the semi-finals on three other occasions, in 1997, 2000, and 2009. India has also reached the finals of the T20I World Cup once, losing to Australia by 85 runs in 2020. India qualified for the semi-finals on four occasions (2009, 2010, 2018 and 2023).

India has won all the editions of Women's Asia Cup, except the 2018 edition.

India won a silver medal in the 2022 Commonwealth Games. India also won a gold medal in 2022 Asian Games.

 

The British brought cricket to India in the early 1700s, with the first documented instance of cricket being played is in 1721. It was played and adopted by Kolis of Gujarat because they were sea pirates and outlaws who always loot the British ships so East India Company tried to manage the Kolis in cricket and been successful. The first Indian cricket club was established by the Parsi community in Bombay, in 1848; the club played their first match against the Europeans in 1877. The first official Indian cricket team was formed in 1911 and toured England, where they played English county teams. The India team made their Test debut against England in 1932. Around the same time (1934), the first women's Test was played between England and Australia. However, women's cricket arrived in India much later; the Women's Cricket Association of India was formed in 1973. The Indian women's team played their first Test match in 1976, against the West Indies. India recorded its first-ever Test win in November 1978 against West Indies under Shantha Rangaswamy's captaincy at the Moin-ul-Haq Stadium in Patna.

 

 

In 1973 Women's Cricket Association of India, the governing body for women's cricket was founded in Pune, Maharashtra. Premala Chavan was its first president. It was affiliated to International Women's Cricket Council. As part of the International Cricket Council's initiative to develop women's cricket, the Women's Cricket Association of India was merged with the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2006/07.

In 2021, the BCCI announced that Ramesh Powar would become the Head Coach of the Indian Women's Cricket Team. In 2022, Indian Women script history by winning 1st series on England soil in 23 years.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the governing body for the Indian cricket team and first-class cricket in India. The Board has been operating since 1929 and represents India at the International Cricket Council. It is amongst the richest sporting organisations in the world. It sold media rights for India's matches from 2006 to 2010 for US$612,000,000. It manages the Indian team's sponsorships, its future tours and team selection. The International Cricket Council (ICC) determines India's upcoming matches through its future tours program.

Selection Committee

On 26 September 2020, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the appointment of All-India Women's Selection Committee. Neetu David, former left-arm spinner, heads the five-member selection committee.

• Neetu David
• Arati Vaidya
• Renu Margrate
• Venkatacher Kalpana
• Mithu Mukherjee

The current sponsor of the team is BYJU's. OPPO's sponsorship was to run from 2017 until 2022, but was handed over to BYJU's on 5 September 2019. Previously, the Indian team was sponsored by Star India from 2014 to 2017, Sahara India Pariwar from 2002 to 2013.

Nike had been a long time kit supplier to team India having acquired the contract in 2005, with two extensions for a period of five years each time; in 2011 and 2016 respectively. Nike ended its contract in September 2020 and MPL Sports Apparel & Accessories, a subsidiary of online gaming platform Mobile Premier League replaced Nike as the kit manufacturer in October 2020.

On 30 August 2019, following the conclusion of the Expression of Interest process for Official partners’ Rights, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced that Sporta Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Dream11), LafargeHolcim (ACC Cement and Ambuja Cement) and Hyundai Motor India Ltd. have acquired the Official partners' Rights for the BCCI International and Domestic matches during 2019–23.

Paytm acquired the title sponsorship for all matches played by the team within India in 2015 and extended the same in 2019 until 2023. Star India and Airtel have been title sponsors previously.

The recent results and forthcoming fixtures of India in international cricket:

Bilateral series and tours
Date	Against	H/A/N	Results [Matches]
			Test	WODI	WT20I
July 2023	Bangladesh	Away	-	1-1 [3]	2-1 [3]
2023	England	Home	1-0 [1]	-	1-2 [3]
2023/24	Australia	Home	1-0[1]	[3]	[3]

Multiteam series and tournaments
Date	Series	Format	Position	Results [Matches]
February 2023	2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup	WT20I	3rd	3-2 [5]
September 2023	2022 Asian Games	WT20I	1st	2-0 [3]
September 2024	2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup	WT20I

Former players

This lists all the active players who are centrally contracted with BCCI or was named in the recent ODI or T20I squads. Uncapped players are listed in italics. Updated on 13 July 2023

Key

Players' salaries are as follows:

• Grade A – ₹50 lakh (US$63,000) per annum
• Grade B – ₹30 lakh (US$38,000) per annum
• Grade C – ₹10 lakh (US$13,000) per annum

Match fees

Players also receive a match fee of ₹15 lakh (US$19,000) per Test match, ₹6 lakh (US$7,500) per ODI, and ₹3 lakh (US$3,800) per T20I. The BCCI adopted a pay equity policy in match fees for men's and women's teams on 27 October 2022.

• Head Coach – Amol Muzumdar
• Fielding coach: Munish Bali
• Bowling Coach: Troy Cooley
• Nets Trainers – Tanveer Shukla, Sourav Tyagi, Utkarsh Singh, Akhil S Prasad
• Physiotherapist – Mitra Amin
• Fitness Trainer – Radha Krishnaswamy
• Analyst – Devraj Raut

ICC Women's Cricket World Cup

World Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Played	Won	Lost	Tie	NR
1973	Did Not Compete
1978	Group Stage	4/4	3	0	3	0	0
1982	Group Stage	4/5	12	4	8	0	0
1988	Did Not Compete
1993	Group Stage	4/8	7	4	3	0	0
1997	Semi-finals	4/11	6	3	1	1	1
2000	Semi-finals	3/8	8	5	3	0	0
2005	Runners-up	2/8	9	5	2	0	2
2009	Super 6s	3/6	7	5	2	0	0
2013	Group Stage	7/8	4	2	2	0	0
2017	Runners-up	2/8	9	6	3	0	0
2022	Group Stage	5/8	7	3	4	0	0
2025
TOTAL	0 titles	10/12	72	37	31	1	3

ICC Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier

World Cup Qualifier
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	L	T	NR
2017	Champions	1/10	8	8	0	0	0
TOTAL	1 Title	1/10	8	8	0	0	0

ICC Women's Championship

ICC Women's Twenty20 World Cup

World Twenty20 record
Year	Played	Won	Lost	Tie	NR	Position
2009	4	2	2	0	0	Semi-finalists
2010	4	2	2	0	0	Semi-finalists
2012	3	0	3	0	0	Group Stage
2014	5	3	2	0	0	Group Stage
2016	5	1	4	0	0	Group Stage
2018	5	4	1	0	0	Semi-finalists
2020	6	4	1	0	1	Runners-up
2023	5	3	2	0	0	Semi-finalists
Total	37	19	17	0	1	0 titles

ACC Women's Asia Cup

Asia Cup record
Year	Played	Won	Lost	Tie	NR	Position
2004	5	5	0	0	0	Champions
2005–06	5	5	0	0	0	Champions
2006	5	5	0	0	0	Champions
2008	7	7	0	0	0	Champions
2012	4	4	0	0	0	Champions
2016	6	6	0	0	0	Champions
2018	6	4	2	0	0	Runners-up
2022	8	7	1	0	0	Champions
2024	TBD
Total	46	43	3	0	0	7 titles

Other tournaments

Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	L	T	NR
2022	Silver medal	2/8	5	3	2	0	0
Total	0 Title	1/1	5	3	2	0	0

Asian Games

Asian Games record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	L	T	NR
2010	Did Not Participate
2014	Did Not Participate
2022	Gold medal	1/9	3	2	0	0	1
Total	1 Title	1/3	3	2	0	0	1

ICC

• Women's World Cup:
  • Runners-up (2): 2005, 2017
• Women's T20 World Cup:
  • Runners-up (1): 2020

ACC

• Women's Asia Cup:
  • Champions (7): 2004, 2005–06, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2022
  • Runners-up (1): 2018

Other

• Commonwealth Games
  • Silver medal (1): 2022
• Asian Games
  • Gold medal (1): 2022

Test cricket

Test record versus other nations

Opponent	Matches	Won	Lost	Draw	W/L ratio	% Won	% Lost	% Draw	First	Last
Australia	11	1	4	6	0.25	9.09	36.36	54.54	1977	2021
England	15	3	1	11	3.00	20.00	6.66	73.33	1986	2023
New Zealand	6	0	0	6	0.00	0.00	0.00	100.00	1977	2003
South Africa	2	2	0	0	–	100.00	0.00	0.00	2002	2014
West Indies	6	1	1	4	1.00	16.66	16.66	66.66	1976	2014
Total	40	7	6	27	1.16	17.50	15.00	67.50	1976	2023
Statistics are correct as of   India v   Australia at Wankhade, 24 December 2023. v t e

• Highest team total: 467 v England, 14 August 2002 at County Ground, Taunton, England
• Highest individual score: 214, Mithali Raj v England, 14 August 2002 at County Ground, Taunton, England
• Best innings bowling: 8/53, Neetu David v England, 24 November 1995 at Jamshedpur, India
• Best match bowling: 10/78, Jhulan Goswami v England, 29 August 2006 at County Ground, Taunton, England

One-Day Internationals

Opponent	Matches	Won	Lost	Tied	No Result	% Won	First	Last
Australia	52	10	42	0	0	19.23	1978	2023
Bangladesh	8	6	1	1	0	75.00	2013	2023
Denmark	1	1	0	0	0	100.00	1993	1993
England	76	34	40	0	2	45.94	1978	2022
International XI	3	3	0	0	0	100.00	1982	1982
Ireland	12	12	0	0	0	100.00	1993	2017
Netherlands	3	3	0	0	0	100.00	1993	2000
New Zealand	54	20	33	1	0	37.96	1978	2022
Pakistan	11	11	0	0	0	100.00	2005	2022
South Africa	28	15	12	0	1	55.55	1997	2022
Sri Lanka	32	29	2	0	1	93.54	2000	2022
West Indies	26	21	5	0	0	80.76	1993	2022
Total	306	165	135	2	4	53.92	1978	2023
Statistics are correct as of   India v   Australia at Mumbai, 2nd ODI, 30 December 2023. v t e

Players in bold text are still active with India.

• Highest team total: 358/3 v Ireland, 15 May 2017 at Senwes Park, South Africa
• Highest individual score: 188, Deepti Sharma v Ireland, 15 May 2017 at Senwes Park, South Africa
• Best innings bowling: 6/10, Mamatha Maben v Sri Lanka, 25 April 2004 at Asgiriya Stadium, Sri Lanka

Twenty20 Internationals

Opponent	Matches	Won	Lost	Tied	Tie+Win	Tie+Loss	No Result	% Won	First	Last
Australia	31	6	23	0	1	0	1	21.66	2008	2023
Bangladesh	17	14	3	0	0	0	0	82.35	2013	2023
Barbados	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	100	2022	2022
England	30	8	22	0	0	0	0	26.66	2006	2023
Ireland	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	100	2018	2023
Malaysia	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	100	2018	2023
New Zealand	13	4	9	0	0	0	0	30.76	2009	2022
Pakistan	14	11	3	0	0	0	0	78.57	2009	2023
South Africa	16	9	5	0	0	0	2	64.28	2014	2023
Sri Lanka	24	19	4	0	0	0	1	82.6	2009	2023
Thailand	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	100	2018	2022
United Arab Emirates	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	100	2022	2022
West Indies	21	13	8	0	0	0	0	61.90	2011	2023
Total	176	93	77	0	1	0	5	54.54	2006	2023
Statistics are correct as of   India v   England at Navi Mumbai, 3rd T20I, 10 December 2023. v t e

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