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| Association | Emirates Cricket Board | |||||||||
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| Personnel | ||||||||||
| Captain | Esha Oza | |||||||||
| Coach | Ahmed Raza | |||||||||
| International Cricket Council | ||||||||||
| ICC status | Associate member (1990) Affiliate member (1989) | |||||||||
| ICC region | Asia | |||||||||
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| International cricket | ||||||||||
| First international | v. Bangladesh atJohor,Malaysia; 11 July 2007 | |||||||||
| One Day Internationals | ||||||||||
| First ODI | v Zimbabwe atQueens Sports Club,Bulawayo; 28 September 2025 | |||||||||
| Last ODI | v Papua New Guinea atAmini Park,Port Moresby; 19 October 2025 | |||||||||
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| T20 Internationals | ||||||||||
| First T20I | v. Netherlands atSportpark Maarschalkerweerd,Utrecht; 7 July 2018 | |||||||||
| Last T20I | v. Uganda atAsian Institute of Technology Ground,Bangkok 25 November 2025 | |||||||||
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| T20 World Cup Qualifier appearances | 3 (first in2018) | |||||||||
| Best result | Semi-finals (2024) | |||||||||
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| As of 25 November 2025 | ||||||||||
TheUnited Arab Emirates women's national cricket team represents theUnited Arab Emirates in internationalwomen's cricket and is controlled by theEmirates Cricket Board (ECB).
Its international debut was at the 2007 ACC Women's Tournament in Malaysia.[6] The team lost all three of its matches, and on debut againstBangladesh were bowled out for nine runs, in a match which took one hour to complete.[7] The squad was said to consist of "mothers and daughters",[8] and the captain, Natasha Cherriath, was 12 years old.[9] The team's coach wasSmitha Harikrishna who playedOne Day International (ODI) cricket forIndia, and another ex-India player,Pramila Bhatt, was involved in a pre-tournament training camp.[10]
At the2009 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship, the UAE won their first international match, defeatingOman by 49 runs. The team also defeatedKuwait, finishing fourth in its six-team group, and defeatedIran in a play-off to finish 7th overall out of 12 teams.[11] At the2011 ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship, it placed 9th out of 10 teams and won two matches.[12] At the2013 ACC Women's Championship in Thailand, the team failed to win a single game, placing 10th out of 11 teams (above Kuwait).[13] The UAE won both editions of the Gulf Cricket Council (GCC) Women's Twenty20 Championship held in Oman in 2014 and in Qatar in 2015.[14]
In June 2016, two teams from Australia'sWomen's Big Bash League (WBBL), theSydney Sixers and theSydney Thunder, toured UAE for a training camp. They played a Twenty20 exhibition match at theSheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Dubai, and were joined by three UAE national team players (Natasha Michael,Chaya Mughal, andEsha Oza) who filled in for injured players.[15][16]
In April 2018, ICC granted fullWomen's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, allTwenty20 matches played between United Arab Emirates and any international side after 1 July 2018 will be a full WT20I.[17]
UAE was named in the2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier regional group alongside seven other teams.[18]
In May 2025, the ICC announced the United Arab Emirates as one of five women's sides to gainWomen's One Day International (ODI) status.[19]Netherlands,Papua New Guinea,Scotland andThailand are the other four teams.[20]
| T20 World Cup Qualifier record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Qualification | Position | GP | W | L | T | 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 | DNQ | 4th | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
 2026 | Did not qualify | ||||||
| Total | 3/7 | 0 Titles | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| T20 Asia Qualifier record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | L | T | 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 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | DNQ | 3/9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 5/5 | 2 Titles | 27 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 3 |
| ODI World Cup record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | L | T | NR |
 1973 | Did not qualify | ||||||
 1978 | |||||||
 1982 | |||||||
 1988 | |||||||
| 1993 | |||||||
| 1997 | |||||||
| 2000 | |||||||
 2005 | |||||||
| 2009 | |||||||
| 2013 | |||||||
| 2017 | |||||||
| 2022 | |||||||
 2025 | |||||||
| Total | 0/12 | 0 Titles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| T20 World Cup Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | L | T | NR |
| 2009 | Did not qualify | ||||||
 2010 | |||||||
| 2012 | |||||||
| 2014 | |||||||
| 2016 | |||||||
| 2018 | |||||||
| 2020 | |||||||
| 2023 | |||||||
| 2024 | |||||||
| Total | 0/8 | 0 Titles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Asia Cup record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | L | T | NR |
| 2004 | Did not enter (ODI format) | ||||||
2005–06 | |||||||
| 2006 | |||||||
| 2008 | |||||||
2012 | Did not qualify | ||||||
| 2016 | |||||||
| 2018 | |||||||
| 2022 | Round robin | 6th | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | Round robin | 7th | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2/9 | — | 9 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| Premier Cup record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | L | T | NR |
| 2024 | Champion | 1/16 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 1/1 | 1 Titles | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
International Match Summary[21][22]
Last updated 25 November 2025
| Playing record | ||||||
| Format | M | W | L | T | NR | Inaugural Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Day Internationals | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 26 September 2025 |
| Twenty20 Internationals | 105 | 63 | 39 | 1 | 2 | 7 July 2018 |
ODI record versus other nations[22]
Records complete to WODI #1508. Last updated 19 October 2025.
| Opponent | M | W | L | T | NR | First match | First win | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICC Full members | |||||||||
| Zimbabwe | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 26 September 2025 | 26 September 2025 | ||
| ICC Associate members | |||||||||
| Papua New Guinea | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 October 2025 | 13 October 2025 | ||
Most T20I runs for UAE Women[26]
| Most T20I wickets for UAE Women[27]
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T20I record versus other nations[22]
Records complete to WT20I #2569. Last updated 25 November 2025.
| Opponent | M | W | L | T | NR | First match | First win | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICC Full members | |||||||||
| Bangladesh | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 July 2018 | |||
| India | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 October 2022 | |||
 Ireland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 April 2024 | |||
| Pakistan | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 October 2022 | |||
| Sri Lanka | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 October 2022 | |||
| Zimbabwe | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 September 2022 | 21 September 2022 | ||
| ICC Associate members | |||||||||
 Bahrain | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 March 2022 | 26 March 2022 | ||
 Bhutan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 November 2021 | 25 November 2021 | ||
| China | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 January 2019 | 13 January 2019 | ||
 Hong Kong | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 February 2019 | 18 February 2019 | ||
 Indonesia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 January 2019 | 19 January 2019 | ||
 Japan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 February 2024 | 13 February 2024 | ||
 Kenya | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 April 2023 | 18 April 2023 | ||
 Kuwait | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 February 2019 | 19 February 2019 | ||
| Malaysia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 January 2019 | 15 January 2019 | ||
 Namibia | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 27 April 2023 | 26 September 2023 | ||
| Nepal | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 January 2019 | 28 November 2021 | ||
| Netherlands | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 July 2018 | 7 July 2018 | ||
 Oman | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22 March 2022 | 22 March 2022 | ||
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 July 2018 | |||
 Qatar | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 March 2022 | 20 March 2022 | ||
 Rwanda | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 April 2023 | 21 April 2023 | ||
 Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 March 2022 | 24 March 2022 | ||
| Scotland | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 23 September 2022 | |||
 Singapore | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 June 2022 | 18 June 2022 | ||
 Tanzania | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 April 2023 | |||
| Thailand | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 12 July 2018 | 9 September 2023 | ||
| Uganda | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20 April 2023 | 25 April 2023 | ||
 United States | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 September 2022 | 25 September 2022 | ||
 Vanuatu | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 May 2024 | 3 May 2024 | ||
Updated on 5 May 2024
This lists all the players who were named in the squad for2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier.
| Name | Age | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batters | ||||
| Kavisha Egodage | 22 | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | |
| Rinitha Rajith | 19 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | |
| Lavanya Keny | 19 | Right-handed | Right armoff break | |
| Avanee Patil | 18 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | |
| All-rounders | ||||
| Esha Oza | 27 | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | Captain |
| Khushi Sharma | 23 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | |
| Wicket-keeper | ||||
| Theertha Satish | 21 | Left-handed | ||
| Spin Bowlers | ||||
| Vaishnave Mahesh | 18 | Right-handed | Right-armleg break | |
| Suraksha Kotte | 22 | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | |
| Heena Hotchandani | 25 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| Mehak Thakur | 24 | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | |
| Al Maseera Jahangir | 17 | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | |
| Pace Bowlers | ||||
| Samaira Dharnidharka | 18 | Right-handed | Right-armFast | |
| Siya Gokhale | 20 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | |
| Indhuja Nandakumar | 19 | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | |
