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| Association | Botswana Cricket Association | |||||||||
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| Personnel | ||||||||||
| Captain | Laura Mophakedi | |||||||||
| Coach | Karabo Motlhanka | |||||||||
| International Cricket Council | ||||||||||
| ICC status | Associate member (2005) Affiliate member (2001) | |||||||||
| ICC region | Africa | |||||||||
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| Women's Twenty20 Internationals | ||||||||||
| First WT20I | v  Lesotho at Botswana Cricket Association Oval 1, Gaborone; 20 August 2018 | |||||||||
| Last WT20I | v  Kenya at Gahanga International Cricket Stadium, Kigali; 8 June 2024 | |||||||||
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| As of 8 June 2024 | ||||||||||
The Botswana women's national cricket team represents the country of Botswana in women's cricket matches. The team is currently coached by Karabo Motlhanka.[4]
In April 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) granted full Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Botswana women and another international side since 1 July 2018 have the full WT20I status.[5]
Botswana's first WT20I matches were contested as part of the Botswana 7s tournament in August 2018 against Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone and Zambia (Zambia's matches were not classified as WT20Is as they had a Botswanan player in their squad).[6] Botswana finished third on the table with three wins and two losses[7] and won the third place play off against Mozambique by a margin of nine wickets.[8]
In December 2020, the ICC announced the qualification pathway for the 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup.[9] The Botswana women's team are scheduled to make their debut at an ICC women's event when they play in the 2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier group.[10]
- ^ "ICC Rankings". International Cricket Council.
- ^ "WT20I matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "WT20I matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ Dube, Mqondisi (30 November 2018). "Motlhanka, an embodiment of the present, future of cricket". Mmegi. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ "T20s between all ICC members to have international status". ESPNcricinfo. 27 April 2018. Archived from the original on 16 November 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
- ^ "Botswana 7s tournament: A complete round-up". womenscriczone.com. 30 August 2018. Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ "Botswana Cricket Association Women's T20I Series Table - 2018". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ "3rd Place Play-off, Botswana Cricket Association Women's T20I Series at Gaborone, Aug 25 2018". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 4 January 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ "Qualification for ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2023 announced". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
- ^ "ICC announce qualification process for 2023 Women's T20 World Cup". The Cricketer. Retrieved 12 December 2020.