The United Arab Emirates women's national cricket team represents United Arab Emirates in international women's cricket and is organised by the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB).

History

Its international debut was at the 2007 ACC Women's Tournament in Malaysia. It lost all three of its matches, and on debut against Bangladesh were bowled out for nine runs, in a match which took one hour to complete. The squad was said to consist of "mothers and daughters", and the captain, Natasha Cherriath, was 12 years old. The team's coach was

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who played

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(ODI) cricket for India, and another ex-India player,

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, was involved in a pre-tournament training camp. At the

2009 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship The 2009 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship was an international women's cricket tournament held in Malaysia from 3 to 9 July 2009. It was the first women's tournament organised by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) to feature the Twenty20 format of t ...

, UAE won its first international match, defeating Oman by 49 runs. The team also defeated Kuwait, placing fourth in its six-team group, and defeated Iran in a play-off to finish 7th overall (out of 12 teams). At the

2011 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship The 2011 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship was an international women's cricket tournament held in Kuwait from 18 to 25 February 2011. It was organised by the Asian Cricket Council (ACC). Ten teams participated in the tournament, down from twelve ...

, it placed 9th out of 10 teams and won two matches. At 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 ...

in Thailand, the team failed to win a single game, placing 10th out of 11 teams (above Kuwait). UAE won both editions of the Gulf Cricket Council (GCC) Women's Twenty20 Championship held in Oman in 2014 and in Qatar in 2015. In June 2016, two teams from Australia's Women's Big Bash League (WBBL), the Sydney Sixers and the Sydney Thunder, toured UAE for a training camp. They played a Twenty20 exhibition match at the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Dubai, and were joined by three UAE national team players (Natasha Michael, Chaya Mughal, and Esha Oza) who filled in for injured players. In April 2018, ICC granted full Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between United Arab Emirates and another international side after 1 July 2018 will be a full WT20I. UAE was named in the

2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier The 2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier was a cricket tournament that took place in the United Arab Emirates in November 2021. The matches were played with Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status, with the top team progressing to ...

regional group alongside seven other teams.

Tournament history

Women's Asia Cup

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: 6th

ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier The ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier (until 2018, the ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier) is an international cricket tournament that serves as the final step of the qualification process for the Women's T20 World Cup. The qualifier was hel ...

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: 7th (DNQ) *

: 7th (DNQ)

ICC Women's World Twenty20 Asia Qualifier

* 2017: 2nd (Qualified) *

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: 3rd (DNQ) *

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: 1st (Qualified)

Records

International Match Summary ''Last updated 9 October 2022''

Twenty20 International

*Highest team total: 253/1 v. Bahrain on 26 March 2022 at Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 2, Muscat. *Highest individual innings: 158 *,

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v. Bahrain on 26 March 2022 at Oman Cricket Academy Ground Turf 2, Muscat. *Best innings bowling: 5/3,

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v. Kuwait on 19 February 2019 at

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, Bangkok. Most T20I runs for UAE Women Most T20I wickets for UAE Women T20I record versus other nations ''Records complete to WT20I #1266. Last updated 7 October 2022.''

Current squad

This lists all the players who were named in the most recent squad. ''Updated on 9 October 2022.'' Uncapped players are listed in ''italics''.

References

{{National sports teams of the United Arab Emirates Cricket in the United Arab Emirates Cricket, women's Women's national cricket teams Women Women's sport in the United Arab Emirates