Scotland women's national cricket team


The Scotland women's national cricket team, nicknamed the Wildcats, represents Scotland in international women's cricket. The team is organised by Cricket Scotland, an associate member of the International Cricket Council.
Scotland were involved in the first international women's cricket match, when they played against England in August 1932. The team played sporadically throughout the remainder of the 20th century, with regular competition beginning only in 2000. Scotland's first international tournament was the 2001 European Championship, where matches held One Day International status. The team's only other ODI appearances to date came at the 2003 IWCC Trophy in the Netherlands, a qualifier for the 2005 World Cup. Outside regional tournaments, Scotland has only qualified for two major events since then – the 2008 World Cup Qualifier and the 2015 World Twenty20 Qualifier.
In April 2018, the ICC granted full Women's Twenty20 International status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Scotland women and another international side after 1 July 2018 will be a full WT20I.

History

In August 1932, a Scottish women's team played England at New Road, Worcester, in what was the first international women's cricket fixture. Four members of the inaugural Scottish women's side – Betty Snowball, Myrtle Maclagan, Joy Liebert, and Betty Archdale – later played in Test matches for England. After 1932, a Scottish women's team was not raised again until 1979, when a fixture was played against a Junior England team at Malvern College, Worcestershire.
Scotland made their international tournament debut at the 2001 edition of the Women's European Championship. They lost all three games, finishing last in the four-team tournament. Two years later, they played in the 2003 IWCC Trophy, the inaugural edition of what is now known simply as the World Cup Qualifier. They finished fifth in the six team tournament, which was hosted by the Netherlands, with their only win coming against Japan.
They again played in the European Championship in 2005, but again went without a win and finished last. In 2007 they will compete in the Women's World Cup qualifier in Ireland playing the hosts as well as Bermuda, The Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, South Africa and an African qualifier. The top two in this tournament will qualify for the World Cup in 2009, whilst the top four will gain Test and ODI status for the following four years.
In 2014, Scotland were promoted to Division 2 of the Women's County Championship after losing only one game throughout the season. The Wildcats are currently preparing for the ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifiers to be held in Thailand at the end of 2015.
In April 2018, Kathryn Bryce was named as the captain of the team. In July 2018, Scotland played its first T20 international match against Uganda in 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier in Netherlands.

Tournament history

European Championship

In the 2019 Netherlands Women's Quadrangular Series, Scotland finished in second place, winning four of their six matches. Following is the final standing of the same:-
6510010+2.509
642008–0.385
623015+1.320
605011–4.113

Records and statistics

International Match Summary — Scotland Women

Women's One-Day International

ODI record versus other nations
Records complete to Women ODI #449. Last updated 29 June 2019.

Women's Twenty20 International

Most T20I runs for Scotland Women
PlayerRunsAverageCareer span
Sarah Bryce51139.302018–2019
Kathryn Bryce40050.002018–2019
Lorna Jack22915.262018–2019
Becky Glen21315.212018–2019
Priyanaz Chatterji9911.002018–2019

Most T20I wickets for Scotland Women
PlayerWicketsAverageCareer span
Abtaha Maqsood1910.842018–2019
Katie McGill1816.112018–2019
Rachel Hawkins1614.622018–2019
Kathryn Bryce159.932018–2019
Katherine Fraser1512.062019–2019

T20I record versus other nations
Records complete to WT20I #757. Last updated 7 September 2019.
''Note: Scotland won the tied match against Netherlands in a Super Over.

Current squad

The Scottish squad for the 2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier is as follows: