Live scores, fixtures, rankings and stories from women’s international cricket — covered on its own terms.
Three international series running at once, an age-group tri-series in Pakistan and the start of the WBBL make this one of the fullest months the women’s calendar has carried. For sides outside the top three it is also the most ranking-relevant: the ICC system rewards beating stronger opposition, so a single upset moves the table more than a routine win ever could.
Three formats, ten Full Member nations and a growing group of associate sides — the women’s game has a shape of its own, and this is how it stacks up.
Between them they have taken every major title of the past decade. Australia lead both ICC rankings; England and India are separated by two rating points in ODIs and twelve in T20Is, so a single series can swap them.
Full ODI status and a regular bilateral calendar. The gap to the top three has closed faster in T20 cricket than in the 50-over game, where Australia still sit 37 rating points clear of second place.
Since 2018 every ICC member holds T20 International status, which is why the T20I rankings run far deeper than the ODI list and why associate sides now appear in the official ICC tables.
The calendar turns on two tournaments: the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup in the 50-over format and the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, alternating across a four-year cycle, with the multi-format Women’s Ashes between England and Australia in between. Bilateral tours fill the rest of the year, and the professional leagues — the Women’s Premier League, The Hundred and the Women’s Big Bash League — have changed how quickly uncapped players arrive ready at international level.
We cover that game on its own terms rather than as a footnote to the men’s schedule: live scores while matches are in progress, the fixtures calendar, completed results, the current ICC team rankings, player profiles, and reporting in our news section.
Ratings published by the ICC, current as at 27 September 2026. A team’s rating is its total points divided by matches played, weighted by the strength of the opposition, so results against higher-ranked sides count for considerably more. The tables are recalculated after every completed series.
Schedule, points table and everything that happened in a tournament that turned out to be one of the most memorable yet.
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Read story →Women’s Tests are played over four days rather than five, and only a handful take place each year. England and Australia contest one in every Women’s Ashes cycle, and India have recently returned to the format after a long absence. Because so few are played, there is no official ICC women’s Test ranking.
Fifty overs a side, and the format of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup. Ten Full Member nations hold permanent ODI status. The ICC Women’s Championship uses bilateral ODI series to decide direct qualification for the World Cup, which gives even dead-rubber matches real weight.
Twenty overs a side and the sport’s main growth engine. Since 2018 every ICC member nation holds T20I status, which is why teams such as Thailand, Uganda, Namibia and the United States now appear in the official rankings alongside Australia and England.
Ten Full Member nations hold ODI status: Australia, England, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the West Indies and Ireland. Since the ICC granted T20 International status to all its members in 2018, the T20I game extends much further — Scotland, Thailand, the Netherlands, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Namibia, the UAE, Papua New Guinea and the United States all appear in the official rankings alongside the established sides.
The rankings launched on 1 October 2015 and were designed by statistician David Kendix, using the same methodology as the men’s game. Since October 2018 they have been published as two separate lists, one for ODI cricket and one for T20Is. There is no standalone women’s Test ranking — Test cricket is played too rarely for the rating system to produce a meaningful table. Our rankings page carries both lists in full.
The ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, first played in 1973, is the sport’s oldest world championship — two years older than the men’s equivalent. The ICC Women’s T20 World Cup has run biennially since 2009, with the 2026 edition held in England. Between them sits the Women’s Ashes, a multi-format series in which a single Test, three ODIs and three T20Is combine into one points total, which is why a drawn Test can decide where the trophy goes.
Professional leagues have reshaped the international game in under a decade. The Women’s Premier League in India, the Women’s Big Bash League in Australia and The Hundred in England now give players year-round competitive cricket against international opposition, and it shows in how quickly uncapped players arrive ready. Our player profiles track careers across both calendars.
Scores update in our match centre while play is in progress. Completed matches move to results, upcoming tours are listed on the fixtures page, and match reports, tactical analysis and long-form features are published in news.