The Iran national women's cricket team is the team that represents the country of

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in international

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matches. They made their international debut when they played at the 2009 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship, losing to

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in July 2009, since then took part in the

2013 ACC Women's Championship The 2013 ACC Women's Championship was an international women's cricket tournament held in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, from 23 to 31 January 2013. It was organised by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC). Unlike the two previous ACC women's tourname ...

, and then the 2014 ACC Women's Premier. In April 2018, the

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(ICC) granted full

Women's Twenty20 International Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) is the shortest form of women's international cricket. A women's Twenty20 International is a 20 overs-per-side cricket match between two of the International Cricket Council (ICC) members. The first Twent ...

(WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all

Twenty20 Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single innin ...

matches played between Iran women and another international side after 1 July 2018 will be a full WT20I.

Tournament history

Head coaches

* Shamsa Hashmi 2008-2009 * Hajira Sarwar 2010-2013 * Mozhdeh Bavandpour 2014

Captains

*Nahid Hakimian 2009 *Somayyeh Sahrapour 2013 *Nasimeh Rahshetaei 2014

Awards

*2012 Monir Habibi, Volunteer of the Year, Pepsi ICC Development Programme Awards *2013 Winners, Spirit of Cricket Award ACC Women’s Championship

Limited-overs head-to-head

Updated until last match played: ''17 February 2014'' *The result percentage excludes no results and counts ties as half a win

Twenty20 head-to-head

Updated until last match played: ''10 July 2009'' *The result percentage excludes no results and counts ties as half a win

References

External links

Iranian Cricket Association

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