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Association	Cricket Association of Thailand
Personnel
Captain	Naruemol Chaiwai
Coach	Nitish Salekar
International Cricket Council
ICC status	Associate member (2005) Affiliate member (1995)
ICC region	Asia
ICC Rankings Current Best-ever WODI 9th 7th (4 May 2023) WT20I 13th 10th (4 Jan 2022)
Women's One Day Internationals
First WODI	v.  Netherlands at Royal Chiangmai Golf Club, Chiang Mai; 20 November 2022
Last WODI	v.  Netherlands at VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen; 7 July 2023
WODIs Played Won/Lost Total 9 8/1 (0 ties, 0 no results) This year 0 0/0 (0 ties, 0 no results)
Women's World Cup Qualifier appearances	2 (first in 2017)
Best result	9th (2017)
Women's Twenty20 Internationals
First WT20I	v.  Pakistan at Kinrara Academy Oval, Bandar Kinrara; 3 June 2018
Last WT20I	v.  Namibia at Mission Road Ground, Mong Kok; 8 December 2024
WT20Is Played Won/Lost Total 96 60/34 (0 ties, 2 no results) This year 17 11/6 (0 ties, 0 no results)
Women's T20 World Cup appearances	1 (first in 2020)
Best result	Group stage (2020)
Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier appearances	5 (first in 2013)
Best result	2nd (2019)
As of 8 December 2024

The Thailand women's national cricket team is the team that represents the country of Thailand in international women's cricket matches. Thailand is one of the strongest associate teams in women's international cricket and has been ranked as high as tenth in the ICC Women's T20I rankings.

A member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1995, Thailand's women team made their international debut when they played, and lost, two matches against Bangladesh in July 2007. The team hosted and won the 2013 ACC Women's Championship to qualify for its first ICC global tournament, the 2013 World Twenty20 Qualifier. Thailand was runner-up at the 2019 edition of the tournament and qualified for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia, the first appearance by Thailand in any cricket world championship. The team was awarded women's One Day International (ODI) status in 2022 and received their first ODI Ranking in November of 2022.

History

The team's first international tournament outside of Asian Cricket Council regional events was the 2013 World Twenty20 Qualifier, in which they placed fifth out of eight teams. The team was less successful at the 2015 edition of the tournament, which it hosted, winning only one match (against the Netherlands) to finish seventh.

In May 2016, Sri Lankan fast bowler Janak Gamage was named as a head coach of the team. In February 2017, Thailand played their first 50-over match, when they faced India in the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Sri Lanka. India won the match by 9 wickets. In August 2017, Thailand won the gold medal in the women's tournament at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games, going undefeated from four matches.

In April 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) granted full Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Thailand women and another international side since 1 July 2018 have been full WT20Is.

On 9 June 2018, during the 2018 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup, Thailand beat Sri Lanka by four wickets to register their first ever win against a Full Member side. In February 2019, they won the 2019 ICC Women's Qualifier Asia, therefore progressing to both the 2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier and the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournaments. In August 2019, during the 2019 Netherlands Women's Quadrangular Series, they won their 17th win in a row, breaking the previous record of 16 consecutive wins in WT20I cricket set by Australia. Thailand qualified to 2020 T20 World Cup in Australia after finished in top two in 2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier.

On 3 March 2020 at the Sydney Showground Stadium, Thailand scored 150 runs for three wickets against Pakistan, the highest total for the team in Women's T20 World Cup and at that ground, before the match was abandoned due to rain. Natthakan Chantam scored 56 to register Thailand's first Women's T20 World Cup half-century; she and Nattaya Boochatham, who scored 44, combined for an opening partnership of 93. Ironically, this would be Thailand's highest WT20 score until the following year, and was Thailand's only no-result until 2023.

In 2021, the Thai team embarked on a 15-match tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa to prepare for the Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier, held November 2021 in Harare, Zimbabwe. At the qualifier, the team was leading Group B with three wins from four matches, when the tournament was called off, due to concerns about a new COVID variant and travel restrictions. As a consequence, the three remaining places in the World Cup were handed to Bangladesh, Pakistan and the West Indies on the basis of their Women's One Day International rankings, and Thailand, which had beaten Bangladesh but did not have such a ranking, missed out, not only on the World Cup, but also on the next round of the ICC Women's Championship. Prior to this, no team had ever won at least 3 of their first 4 matches of a qualifier without ultimately qualifying for the World Cup, and at the point the qualifiers were abandoned, Thailand would have had at least two points carried forward to the unplayed Super Six round from the aforementioned win over Bangladesh, and would only have needed to not finish last in that round to qualify for the Women's Championship. According to women's cricket historian Raf Nicholson, of Bournemouth University in England, that outcome set back women's cricket in Thailand by three years. As the use of ODI rankings meant that Thailand (and other associate member nations) would never have been able to qualify for either event, regardless of their results, in light of the cancellation, this decision has been criticized as "utterly disgraceful (and) utterly farcical".

As a result of the controversial circumstances of Thailand's failure to qualify for either event, Cricket Association of Thailand president Ravi Sehgal was reported in April 2022 as saying "We should have been given a fair chance to qualify", and it was also reported that he had petitioned the ICC and board directors in December with an impassioned plea for Thailand to be granted ODI status. In May 2022, the ICC announced Thailand as one of five women's sides to gain Women's One Day International (ODI) status. Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, Scotland and the United States are the other four teams.

In October 2022, Thailand qualified for the semifinals of the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup, aided by their first-ever win over Pakistan, in their first encounter since the abandoned match in Sydney. In November, it was announced that the Netherlands would play 8 matches against the Thai team in Chiang Mai that month, 4 each of ODIs (Thailand's first since earning status) and WT20Is. Thailand won all four of the ODIs, and three of the four WT20Is, with the Netherlands earning their first-ever win over Thailand in the 2nd WT20I.

In February 2023, it was reported that the Thai women's team were set for their first tour of Ireland, to play three 50-over ODI matches and two T20Is in June; however, it would later be reported that the series "was cancelled due to date clashes with the Asia Cup", as Thailand was scheduled to complete in the 2023 ACC Womens T20 Emerging Teams Asia Cup in June; however, just days before the Emerging Teams Asia Cup, Thailand withdrew from the event, citing visa issues. In March, it was reported that Thailand was to host Zimbabwe for 3 ODIs in April, later amended to 3 ODIs and 4 WT20Is. In May, it was announced that Thailand would tour the Netherlands in July for a second ODI series with the Netherlands, and a trilateral T20 series with both teams and Scotland.

In February 2024, the team participated in the 2024 ACC Premier Cup, which served as a qualification pathway for the 2024 Women's Asia Cup. According to the ACC pathway structure and calendar, revised in 2022, the two finalists of the ACC Premier Cup would qualify for the Women's Asia Cup. As a result, upon their loss to the United Arab Emirates in the Premier Cup semi-final, it was reported that Thailand would not qualify for the 2024 Asia Cup. However, at the end of March 2024, the ACC retroactively awarded the semi-finalists of the 2024 Premier Cup qualification to the expanded eight-team 2024 Women's Asia Cup. This confirmed Nepal and Thailand as additional participants, and will mark Thailand's fifth appearance in the tournament.

Tournament history

Women's World Cup

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	To be determined
Total	0/12	0 Titles	0	0	0	0	0

ICC Women's T20 World Cup

Twenty20 World Cup Record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	L	T	NR
2009	Did not qualify
2010
2012
2014
2016
2018
2020	Group stages	-	4	0	3	0	1
2023	Did not qualify
2024	Did not qualify
Total	1/8	Group stage	4	0	3	0	1

ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier

ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	L	T	NR
2013	Did not qualify
2015	DNQ	7th	4	0	4	0	0
2018	DNQ	5th	3	0	3	0	0
2019	Qualified	2nd	5	4	1	0	0
2022	DNQ	4th	5	2	3	0	0
2024	To be determined
Total	4/5	0 Titles	17	6	11	0	0

Women's Asia Cup (T20I format)

Women's Asia Cup Record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	L	T	NR
2004	Did not participate (ODI format)
2005–06
2006
2008
2012	Group stage	6/8	3	1	2	0	0
2016	Group stage	5/6	5	1	4	0	0
2018	Group stage	4/6	5	2	3	0	0
2022	Semi-finals	4/7	7	3	4	0	0
2024	Group stage	5/8	3	1	2	0	0
Total	5/9		20	7	13	0	0

Asian Games (T20I format)

Asian Games record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	L	T	NR
2010	First Round	5/8	3	1	2	0	0
2014	Quarter-finals	5/10	3	2	1	0	0
2022	Quarter-finals	5/9	1	0	1	0	0
Total			7	3	4	0	0

Southeast Asian Games (T20I format)

Southeast Asian Games record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	L	T	NR
2017	Gold Medal	1/4	4	4	0	0	0
2023	Gold Medal	1/7	4	4	0	0	0
Total			8	8	0	0	0

Records and statistics

International Match Summary — Thailand Women

Last updated 8 December 2024

One-Day International

ODI record versus other nations

Records complete to WODI #1324. Last updated 7 July 2023.

Opponent	Matches	Won	Lost	Tied	N/R	First match	First win
ICC Full members
Zimbabwe	3	3	0	0	0	19 April 2023	19 April 2023
ICC Associate members
Netherlands	6	5	1	0	0	20 November 2022	20 November 2022

Twenty20 International

• Highest team total: 177/2 v. Kuwait on 11 February 2024 at UKM Cricket Oval, Bangi.
• Highest individual score: 88*, Natthakan Chantam v. Zimbabwe on 28 August 2021 at Takashinga Cricket Club, Harare.
• Best individual bowling figures: 5/4, Chanida Sutthiruang v. Indonesia on 15 January 2019 at Asian Institute of Technology Ground, Bangkok.

T20I record versus other nations

Records complete to WT20I #2149. Last updated 8 December 2024.

Opponent	M	W	L	T	NR	First match	First win
ICC Full members
Bangladesh	7	0	7	0	0	7 June 2018
England	1	0	1	0	0	26 February 2020
India	3	0	3	0	0	4 June 2018
Ireland	5	3	2	0	0	7 July 2018	9 August 2019
Pakistan	3	1	1	0	1	3 June 2018	6 October 2022
South Africa	1	0	1	0	0	28 February 2020
Sri Lanka	5	1	4	0	0	9 June 2018	9 June 2018
West Indies	1	0	1	0	0	22 February 2020
Zimbabwe	9	4	5	0	0	27 August 2021	28 August 2021
ICC Associate members
Bhutan	1	1	0	0	0	16 January 2019	16 January 2019
China	3	3	0	0	0	18 February 2019	18 February 2019
Hong Kong	5	5	0	0	0	14 January 2019	14 January 2019
Indonesia	2	2	0	0	0	15 January 2019	15 January 2019
Kuwait	3	2	0	0	1	24 February 2019	24 February 2019
Malaysia	5	5	0	0	0	6 June 2018	6 June 2018
Myanmar	4	4	0	0	0	12 January 2019	12 January 2019
Namibia	3	3	0	0	0	1 September 2019	1 September 2019
Nepal	3	3	0	0	0	19 January 2019	19 January 2019
Netherlands	9	7	2	0	0	10 August 2019	10 August 2019
Papua New Guinea	2	2	0	0	0	5 September 2019	5 September 2019
Philippines	1	1	0	0	0	1 May 2023	1 May 2023
Scotland	6	2	4	0	0	10 July 2018	8 August 2019
Singapore	1	1	0	0	0	13 February 2024	13 February 2024
Uganda	3	2	1	0	0	8 July 2018	14 July 2018
United Arab Emirates	8	6	2	0	0	12 July 2018	12 July 2018
United States	2	2	0	0	0	12 September 2022	12 September 2022

Current squad

This lists all players who played for Thailand or were picked in the latest One-day or T20I squad.

Last updated as on 9 September 2023.

See also

• Thailand national cricket team, the men's team
• List of Thailand women Twenty20 International cricketers
• List of Thailand women ODI cricketers

Notes

1. Thipatcha Putthawong replaced Chaiwai as captain of the T20 team prior to the 2024 ACC Women's Premier Cup in July, and has captained 4 WT20I matches including one in the team's most recent WT20I series in December 2024. However, Chaiwai captained the side in the remaining 3 matches of the series and their most recent game.
2. The team were placed first in the 2021 qualifying tournament when it was suspended on 27 November 2021, prior to its planned conclusion.

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Further reading

• Rego, Nishadh (27 August 2019). "The smiling assassins: How Thailand built a formidable women's national cricket team, Part 1". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
• ——————— (21 November 2019). "The smiling assassins: How Thailand built a formidable women's national cricket team, Part 2". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 26 November 2022.

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