The PCB Women's Twenty20 Tournament, previously the National Triangular T20 Women's Cricket Championship, is a women's domestic

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 ...

competition organised by the

Pakistan Cricket Board The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is a sports governing body for cricket in Pakistan responsible for controlling and organising all tours and matches undertaken by the Pakistan national cricket team. A member of the International Cricket Coun ...

. The tournament first took place in 2019–20, with three teams taking part:

PCB Blasters PCB Blasters are a Pakistani women's cricket team that compete in the Pakistan Women's One Day Cup and the PCB Women's Twenty20 Tournament. The team has no geographical base, instead being made up of some of the best players from across Pakista ...

, PCB Challengers and PCB Dynamites. The tournament expanded to four teams in 2022–23, with the addition of

PCB Strikers PCB Strikers are a Pakistani women's cricket team that compete in the Pakistan Women's One Day Cup and the PCB Women's Twenty20 Tournament. The team has no geographical base, instead being made up of some of the best players from across Pakista ...

. The competition has run alongside the PCB Triangular One Day Women's Tournament. PCB Challengers won the first two editions of the competition, beating PCB Blasters in the final in 2019–20 and PCB Dynamites in the final in 2020–21. PCB Blasters won their first title in 2022–23, beating PCB Dynamites in the final.

History

The PCB Triangular Twenty20 Women's Tournament was established in 2019–20, effectively replacing the Departmental T20 Women's Championship. Three teams,

, PCB Challengers and PCB Dynamites, made up of the best players from across Pakistan, competed in a round-robin group across a week in January 2020 at the National Stadium,

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. PCB Challengers won the tournament, beating PCB Blasters by 6 wickets in the final, helped by an unbeaten half-century from captain

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. In 2020–21 the tournament took place behind closed doors (due to the

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) at the

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in November and December 2020. PCB Challengers again won the competition, beating PCB Dynamites in the final by 7 runs. In 2022–23 the tournament expanded to four teams, with the addition of

, who formed ahead of the 2021–22 Pakistan Women's One Day Cup. The tournament was preceded by a "first phase", with three teams, PCB Conquerors, PCB Invincibles and PCB Stars, made up of Under-19 and emerging players (with the tournament taking place at the same time as the national side's series against Ireland). The first phase tournament was won by PCB Stars. The second phase of the tournament took place from 1 to 9 December 2022. In the second phase competition, PCB Blasters and PCB Dynamites qualified for the final, with PCB Blasters emerging victorious by 7 runs.

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Results

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