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The New Zealand women's national cricket team, nicknamed the White Ferns, represents
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in international
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. One of eight teams competing in the ICC Women's Championship (the highest level of international women's cricket), the team is organised by
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, a full member of the
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(ICC). New Zealand made its
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debut in 1935, against
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, becoming the third team to play at that level. With
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and England, New Zealand is one of only three teams to have participated in all ten editions of the
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. The team has made the final of the tournament on four occasions, winning in 2000 and placing second in 1993,
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, and
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. At the Women's T20 World Cup, New Zealand were champions in 2024 and runners up in
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
and
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
.


Tournament history

''A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within
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''


ICC Women's Cricket World Cup


ICC Women's T20 World Cup


Commonwealth Games


Honours


ICC

* Women's World Cup: ** Champions (1):
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** Runners-up (3):
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,
1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...
,
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
* Women's T20 World Cup: ** Champions (1):
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** Runners-up (2):
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
,
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...


Others

*
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** Bronze medal (1):
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Current squad

This lists all the players are centrally contracted with NZC or were named in the most recent ODI or T20I squad. ''Updated as on 18 December 2023'' Uncapped players are listed in ''italics''


Coaching staff


Records and statistics

International Match Summary — New Zealand Women


Women's Test cricket

*Highest team total: 517/8 v.
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on 24 June 1996 at North Marine Road Ground, Scarborough. *Highest individual score: 204, Kirsty Flavell v.
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on 24 June 1996 at North Marine Road Ground, Scarborough. *Best innings bowling: 7/41, Jos Burley v.
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on 6 August 1966 at
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,
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. Most Test runs for New Zealand Women Most Test wickets for New Zealand Women Highest individual innings in Women's Test Best bowling figures in an innings in Women's Test Women's Test record versus other nations ''Records complete to Women's Test #123. Last updated 24 August 2004.''


Women's One-Day International

*Highest team total: 491/4 v.
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on 8 June 2018 at YMCA Cricket Club,
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. *Highest individual score: 232 *,
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v.
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on 13 June 2018 at YMCA Cricket Club,
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. *Best innings bowling: 6/10, Jackie Lord v.
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on 14 January 1982 at
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. Top 5 individual innings in Women's ODI Top 5 best bowling figures in an innings in Women's ODI Most WODI runs for New Zealand Women Most WODI wickets for New Zealand Women WODI record versus other nations


Women's T20I cricket

*Highest team total: 216/1, v.
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on 20 June 2018 at
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. *Highest individual innings: 124 *,
Suzie Bates Suzannah Wilson Bates (born 16 September 1987) is a New Zealand cricketer and former captain of national women cricket team. Born in Dunedin, she plays domestic cricket for the Otago Sparks, as well as for the White Ferns. She currently holds t ...
v.
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on 20 June 2018 at
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. *Best innings bowling: 6/17,
Amy Satterthwaite Amy Ella Satterthwaite (born 7 October 1986) is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as an all-rounder, batting left-handed and bowling either right-arm medium or off break. She appeared in 145 One Day Internationals and 111 Twenty20 In ...
v.
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on 16 August 2007 at
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. Top 5 individual innings in Women's T20I Top 5 Best bowling figures in an innings in Women's T20I Most WT20I runs for New Zealand Women Most WT20I wickets for New Zealand Women WT20I record versus other nations ''Note: New Zealand Women lost a
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against Australia Women and won a
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against West Indies Women.''


See also

* New Zealand men's team


Notes


Further reading

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External links

* {{National sports teams of New Zealand Women's national cricket teams
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