The Qatar women's national cricket team represents the country of

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in international

women's cricket Women's cricket is the form of the team sport of cricket when played by women only. It is played at the professional level in multiple countries around the world and 108 national teams participate internationally. 11 of them have WTest and WODI ...

. The team is organised by the

Qatar Cricket Association Qatar Cricket Association is the official Sport governing body, governing body of the sport of cricket in Qatar. Its current headquarters is located in Doha, Qatar. Qatar Cricket Association is Qatar's representative at the International Cricket ...

, which has been a member of the

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(ICC) since 1999. Qatar made its international debut at the 2009 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship in Malaysia.Other women's matches played by Qatar
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 March 2016. The team won only a single match in the group stage, against

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, and were eventually ranked eleventh after defeating

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...

in the eleventh-place play-off. Qatar did not participate in the tournament's 2011 edition, despite it being hosted by nearby Kuwait, but returned for the 2013 tournament in Thailand. The team again only won a single group-stage match, against Kuwait, but this was enough to place them fourth in their group (out of six teams). Qatar were easily beaten in the seventh-place play-off, however, losing to

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by 36 runs. In December 2014, Qatar competed in the inaugural edition of the Gulf Cricket Council (GCC) Women's Twenty20 Championship, which was also contested by Kuwait,

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, and the

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia ( The Middle East). It is located at t ...

. The team placed last, but at the following year's tournament, which Qatar hosted, lost to the UAE in the final. In April 2018, the 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

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matches played between Qatar women and another international side after 1 July 2018 will be a full WT20I. Qatar played their first matches with WT20I status in January 2020 during a triangular series against

and

, which was held in

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Records and Statistics

International Match Summary — Qatar Women ''Last updated 21 December 2022''

Twenty20 International

T20I record versus other nations ''Records complete to WT20I #1334. Last updated 21 December 2022.''

References

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Women's national cricket teams

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Records and Statistics

Twenty20 International

See also

References