United Arab Emirates women's national cricket team


The United Arab Emirates women's national cricket team represents the United Arab Emirates in international women's cricket. The team is organised by the Emirates Cricket Board, which has been a member of the International Cricket Council since 1990.
The UAE national team made its international debut at the 2007 ACC Women's Tournament in Malaysia. The team lost all three of its matches by large margins, and on debut against Bangladesh were bowled out for just nine runs, in a match which took just one hour to complete. The UAE squad was said to consist of "mothers and daughters", and the captain, Natasha Cherriath, was just twelve years old. The team's coach was Smitha Harikrishna, who played One Day International cricket for India, and another ex-India player, Pramila Bhatt, was involved in a pre-tournament training camp.
At the 2009 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship, the UAE won its first international match, defeating Oman by 49 runs. The team also defeated Kuwait, placing fourth in its six-team group, and narrowly defeated Iran in a play-off to finish seventh overall. The UAE had less success at the 2011 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship, however, placing ninth out of ten teams and winning only two matches. At the 2013 ACC Women's Championship in Thailand, the team failed to win a single game, placing tenth out of eleven teams. However, the UAE has performed better in regional tournaments, winning both editions of the Gulf Cricket Council Women's Twenty20 Championship, the Sydney Sixers and the Sydney Thunder, toured the 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, who filled in for injured players.
In April 2018, the ICC granted full Women's Twenty20 International status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between the United Arab Emirates women and another international side after 1 July 2018 will be a full WT20I.

Records and statistics

International Match Summary — United Arab Emirates Women

Twenty20 International

Most T20I runs for UAE Women
PlayerRunsAverageCareer span
Esha Rohit35723.802018–2019
Chaya Mughal21715.502018–2019
Chamani Seneviratna21017.502018–2019
Kavisha Egodage20920.902018–2019
Nisha Ali11523.002018–2019

Most T20I wickets for UAE Women
PlayerWicketsAverageCareer span
Subha Srinivasan2010.152018–2019
Chamani Seneviratna1710.822018–2019
Esha Rohit139.462018–2019
Humaria Tasneem109.202018–2019
Namita D'souza815.122018–2019

T20I record versus other nations
Records complete to WT20I #598. Last updated 27 February 2019.

Squad

The United Arab Emirates squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier was as follows: