Nepal women's national cricket team

Women's cricket is thriving and the national team (made up of top athletes from other sports) did very well to reach the final of the 2007 ACC Women's Tournament. Nepal won the 2008 ACC Under-19 Women's Championship and defended its title in 2010.

In the ACC Women Twenty20 in Malaysia in 2009, Singapore needed two runs off the last over for victory with five wickets intact. Rubina Chhetry was given the 'hopeless' over but she did a miracle by taking five wickets in five balls as the match ended in a draw as she threw a wide. Nepal won the match in bowl-out.[6] With the rare incident, Rubina also became the first Nepalese cricketer, man or woman, to take a hat-trick. "I have never heard that any team has won the match taking five wickets in the last over, this is very, very rare," the then captain Binod Das commented.[7]

On 26 April 2018, ICC announced that all the T20 matches played between ICC members will be awarded T20I status starting from 1 July 2018 for women's cricket, as a result Nepal played their first T20I match against China on January 12 2019.

In December 2020, the ICC announced the qualification pathway for the 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup.[8] Nepal were named in the 2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier regional group, alongside seven other teams.[9]

The following is a list of players who were in the squad for 2022 ACC Women's T20 Championship or were centrally contracted by the Cricket Association of Nepal for 2023.[10]

International Match Summary — Nepal Women[12]

Last updated 24 June 2022

Twenty20 International

• Highest team total: 164/3 v. Qatar on 18 November 2021 at West End Park International Cricket Stadium, Doha.[13]
• Highest individual score: 82*, Sita Rana Magar v Qatar on 18 November 2021 at West End Park International Cricket Stadium, Doha.[14]
• Best innings bowling: 6/0, Anjali Chand v Maldives, 2 December 2019 at Pokhara Rangasala, Pokhara.[15]

Most T20I runs for Nepal Women[16] Player Runs Average Career span Sita Rana Magar 507 21.12 2019–2022 Rubina Chhetry 359 22.43 2019–2022 Indu Barma 339 16.95 2019–2022 Kajal Shrestha 190 10.00 2019–2022 Jyoti Pandey 164 20.50 2021–2022

Most T20I wickets for Nepal Women[17] Player Wickets Average Career span Sita Rana Magar 31 11.93 2019–2022 Kabita Kunwar 26 12.50 2019–2022 Rubina Chhetry 23 16.00 2019–2022 Nary Thapa 17 7.17 2019–2019 Karuna Bhandari 17 12.00 2019–2021

T20I record versus other nations[12]

Records complete to WT20I #1146. Last updated 24 June 2022.

Opponent	M	W	L	T	NR	First match	First win
ICC Full members
Bangladesh	1	0	1	0	0	5 December 2019
ICC Associate members
Bahrain	1	1	0	0	0	20 June 2022	20 June 2022
Bhutan	2	2	0	0	0	23 November 2021	23 November 2021
China	2	2	0	0	0	12 January 2019	12 January 2019
Hong Kong	3	1	2	0	0	24 February 2019	24 February 2019
Indonesia	1	1	0	0	0	18 January 2019	18 January 2019
Kuwait	3	3	0	0	0	27 February 2019	27 February 2019
Malaysia	3	3	0	0	0	13 January 2019	13 January 2019
Maldives	2	2	0	0	0	2 December 2019	2 December 2019
Qatar	3	3	0	0	0	16 November 2021	16 November 2021
Thailand	2	0	2	0	0	19 January 2019
Uganda	5	2	3	0	0	16 May 2022	20 May 2022
United Arab Emirates	4	2	1	0	1	14 January 2019	14 January 2019

• List of Nepal women Twenty20 International cricketers