ACS Women's International Cricket Year Book 2026

11 SRI LANKA Sri Lanka were awarded full member IWCC status in 1997. There was an annual 50-over tournament run by the Women’s Cricket Association of Sri Lanka from 1997 until Sri Lanka Cricket took over the running of women’s cricket in 2005, although the first SLC run tournament was not until August 2007. The first domestic Twenty20 was played in 2009/10 and has been played annually ever since. Second XIs of the Services’ sides have sometimes played in the main competition, and generally the service teams were the strongest so these Second XI games do count as List A. There have also been regular Provincial and Zonal Tournaments, with sides stronger than the individual clubs. There were Provincial Under-26 tournaments in April 2014 and June 2015, which have claims to be ranked as List A as the majority of players in the regular tournaments would be in that age bracket, but they have been excluded because age group tournaments are ignored. In some years there have been Division Two club tournaments which have not been ranked as List A. There are no details known of matches other than the final in 1999, and also half the matches in 1997 and 1998, as well as the odd game in more recent times. WEST INDIES The Caribbean Women’s Cricket Federation was formed in May 1973 by Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, St Lucia and Grenada. Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago appeared in the initial Women’s World Cup later that year 1973. Prior to the formation of the CWCF Trinidad and Jamaica played some matches against each other and a touring England side which have been included as first-class. Jamaica was accepted as an IWCC member in 1969, but in 1973 Trinidad were just noted as observers along with India. Barbados were accepted in 1973. CWCF were only admitted as full members of IWCC in 1978 (previously the rules only allowed for single countries) and as a result individual islands would no longer affiliate. The first domestic tournament organised by CWCF was played in 1975/76, two-day matches, a format repeated in 1977 when Guyana played for the first time. Apart from the inaugural tournament the matches were played at one location. The tournament was played exclusively on a 50-over basis from 1996, but before that some tournaments had a mixture of two-day and 50-over games. There were no tournaments between 1982 and 1988 due to the expense of organising, but from then the tournament was played almost every year. Unlike in men’s cricket the individual Windward Islands were considered strong enough to compete separately, and Dominica first played in 1995, St Vincent and the Grenadines in 2000. The Leeward Islands did not make their first appearance until 2016 when the Windward Islands now started to play under just the combined name, having been split into Northern and Southern Windward Islands in 2015. The Federation was renamed West Indies Women’s Cricket Federation in 2001. North America played in the 2003 tournament as a guest team. West Indies Cricket Board took over the running of women’s cricket in 2009. The first domestic Twenty20 tournament was played in 2012, and from then on separate 50-over and 20-over competitions have been held one after another, all at the same location. The Women’s Caribbean Premier League was introduced in 2022 and has women’s teams from three of the men’s CPL franchises. In the seasons before 2010 some matches are only available as summary scores, and some matches are missing altogether notably in 1995, 1998, 2006, 2007 and 2008.