| United Arab Emirates | |
| Association: | Emirates Cricket Board |
| Captain: | Esha Oza |
| Icc Status: | Associate member |
| Icc Member Year: | 1990 |
| Icc Status2: | Affiliate member |
| Icc Member Year2: | 1989 |
| Icc Region: | Asia |
| Wt20i Rank: | 16th |
| Wt20i Rank Best: | 14th (11 Oct 2018) |
| First Wmatch: | v. at Johor, Malaysia; 11 July 2007 |
| First Wt20i: | v. at Sportpark Maarschalkerweerd, Utrecht; 7 July 2018 |
| Most Recent Wt20i: | v. at Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla; 23 July 2024 |
| Num Wt20is: | 86 |
| Num Wt20is This Year: | 14 |
| Wt20i Record: | 50/33 (1 tie, 2 no results) |
| Wt20i Record This Year: | 8/6 (0 ties, 0 no results) |
| Wwt20q Apps: | 1 |
| Wwt20q First: | 2018 |
| Wwt20q Best: | 7th (2018) |
| Asofdate: | 23 July 2024 |
The United Arab Emirates women's national cricket team represents the United Arab Emirates in international women's cricket and is controlled by the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB).
Its international debut was at the 2007 ACC Women's Tournament in Malaysia.[1] The team lost all three of its matches, and on debut against Bangladesh were bowled out for nine runs, in a match which took one hour to complete.[2] The squad was said to consist of "mothers and daughters",[3] and the captain, Natasha Cherriath, was 12 years old.[4] The team's coach was Smitha Harikrishna who played One Day International (ODI) cricket for India, and another ex-India player, Pramila Bhatt, was involved in a pre-tournament training camp.[5]
At the 2009 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship, the UAE won their first international match, defeating Oman by 49 runs. The team also defeated Kuwait, finishing fourth in its six-team group, and defeated Iran in a play-off to finish 7th overall out of 12 teams.[6] At the 2011 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship, it placed 9th out of 10 teams and won two matches.[7] At the 2013 ACC Women's Championship in Thailand, the team failed to win a single game, placing 10th out of 11 teams (above Kuwait).[8] UAE won both editions of the Gulf Cricket Council (GCC) Women's Twenty20 Championship held in Oman in 2014 and in Qatar in 2015.[9]
In June 2016, two teams from Australia's Women's Big Bash League (WBBL), the Sydney Sixers and the Sydney Thunder, toured 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 (Natasha Michael, Chaya Mughal, and Esha Oza) who filled in for injured players.[10] [11]
In April 2018, ICC granted full Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between United Arab Emirates and another international side after 1 July 2018 will be a full WT20I.[12]
UAE was named in the 2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier regional group alongside seven other teams.[13]
| ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier record | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=150 | Year | width=150 | Round | width= | Position | width=50 | GP | width=50 | W | width=50 | L | width=50 | T | width=50 | NR |
 2013 | Did not qualify | ||||||||||||||
 2015 | |||||||||||||||
 2018 | DNQ | 7th | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 2019 | Did not qualify | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 | DNQ | 7th | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 2024 | To be determined | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 2/6 | 0 Titles | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| ICC Women's World Twenty20 Asia Qualifier record | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=150 | Year | width=150 | Round | width=50 | Position | width=50 | GP | width=50 | W | width=50 | L | width=50 | T | width=50 | NR |
| 2017 | Qualified | 2nd | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 2019 | Do Not Qualified | 3rd | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| 2021 | Qualified | Champion | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
 2023 | Qualified | Champion | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| Total | 4/4 | 2 Titles | 23 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| World Cup record | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=150 | Year | width=150 | Round | width=50 | Position | width=50 | GP | width=50 | W | width=50 | L | width=50 | T | width=50 | NR |
| 1973 | Did not qualify | ||||||||||||||
 1978 | |||||||||||||||
 1982 | |||||||||||||||
 1988 | |||||||||||||||
| 1993 | |||||||||||||||
| 1997 | |||||||||||||||
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| 2009 | |||||||||||||||
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| 2022 | |||||||||||||||
| 2025 | To be determined | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 0/12 | 0 Titles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Twenty20 World Cup Record | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=150 | Year | width=150 | Round | width=50 | Position | width=50 | GP | width=50 | W | width=50 | L | width=50 | T | width=50 | NR |
| 2009 | Did not qualify | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | |||||||||||||||
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| Total | 0/8 | 0 Titles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Women's Asia Cup record | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | L | T | NR | |
| Did not enter (ODI format) | ||||||||
2012  | Did not qualify | |||||||
| 2016 | ||||||||
| Round robin | 6th | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2024 | To be determined | |||||||
| Total | 1/9 | 6th | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
International Match Summary[14] Last updated 23 July 2024
| Playing record | |||||||
| Format | M | W | L | T | NR | Inaugural Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty20 Internationals | 86 | 50 | 33 | 1 | 2 | 7 July 2018 |
Most T20I runs for UAE Women[18]
| Player | Runs | Average | Career span | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,138 | 30.54 | 2018–2024 | ||
| 1,851 | 34.27 | 2018–2024 | ||
| 1,406 | 28.12 | 2021–2024 | ||
| 602 | 13.37 | 2018–2023 | ||
| 450 | 11.84 | 2021–2024 |
Most T20I wickets for UAE Women[19]
| Player | Wickets | Average | Career span | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82 | 12.34 | 2018–2024 | ||
| 56 | 15.94 | 2018–2024 | ||
| Khushi Sharma | 48 | 16.02 | 2021–2024 | |
| Chaya Mughal | 46 | 18.30 | 2018–2023 | |
| 41 | 14.12 | 2018–2024 |
T20I record versus other nations[14]
Records complete to WT20I #1966. Last updated 23 July 2024.
| Opponent | M | W | L | T | NR | First match | First win | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICC Full members | |||||||||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 July 2018 | ||||
| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 October 2022 | ||||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 April 2024 | ||||
| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 October 2022 | ||||
| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 October 2022 | ||||
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 September 2022 | 21 September 2022 | |||
| ICC Associate members | |||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 March 2022 | 26 March 2022 | |||
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 November 2021 | 25 November 2021 | |||
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 January 2019 | 13 January 2019 | |||
| 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 February 2019 | 18 February 2019 | |||
| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 January 2019 | 19 January 2019 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 February 2024 | 13 February 2024 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 April 2023 | 18 April 2023 | |||
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 February 2019 | 19 February 2019 | |||
| 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 January 2019 | 15 January 2019 | |||
| 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 27 April 2023 | 26 September 2023 | |||
| 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 14 January 2019 | 28 November 2021 | |||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 July 2018 | 7 July 2018 | |||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22 March 2022 | 22 March 2022 | |||
| 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 July 2018 | ||||
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 March 2022 | 20 March 2022 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 April 2023 | 21 April 2023 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 March 2022 | 24 March 2022 | |||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 September 2022 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 June 2022 | 18 June 2022 | |||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 April 2023 | ||||
| 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 July 2018 | 9 September 2023 | |||
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20 April 2023 | 25 April 2023 | |||
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 September 2022 | 25 September 2022 | |||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 May 2024 | ||||
Updated on 5 May 2024
This lists all the players who were named in the squad for 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier.
| Name | Age | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batters | |||||
| Right-handed | |||||
| Rinitha Rajith | Right-handed | ||||
| Right-handed | |||||
| Avanee Patil | Right-handed | ||||
| All-rounders | |||||
| Right-handed | Captain | ||||
| Right-handed | |||||
| Wicket-keeper | |||||
| Left-handed | |||||
| Spin Bowlers | |||||
| Vaishnave Mahesh | Right-handed | ||||
| Suraksha Kotte | Right-handed | ||||
| Left-handed | |||||
| Mehak Thakur | Right-handed | ||||
| Al Maseera Jahangir | Right-handed | ||||
| Pace Bowlers | |||||
| Right-handed | |||||
| Right-handed | |||||
| Right-handed | |||||