The squads of all ten teams participating in the ACC Women’s T20 Championship have been announced. The tournament starts from 17th June 2022 onwards and the Finals will be played on 25th June. The Malaysian Cricket Association has been given the responsibility to host the tournament.
The 10 teams are divided into 2 groups of 5 members each.
UAE, Malaysia, Oman, Qatar, Nepal, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Bahrain, Singapore, and Bhutan are the 10 Countries participating for the Final 2 spots who gets to rub shoulders against the Top Asian teams like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka later this year.
Each team gets to play 4 matches in their respective group in a single round-robin fashion. The top 2 teams from each of the groups advance to the semi-finals to be played on 24th June 2022.
Asian Cricket Council’s president Jay Shah announced that the top two best-performing nations i.e the two finalists will be granted an entry to the ACC Women’s T20 Asia Cup, where they will join India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Thailand, scheduled to be played later this year in Bangladesh.
“The last time the ACC Women’s T20 Championship was in 2013. The revival is long overdue, and this, I believe, will set the tone for us to move faster towards the development of women’s pathway programs in Asia. The development of women’s cricket programs is an integral component that must be pushed forward,” said Shah in a statement.
He added that “with this tournament, in addition to India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Thailand, two more countries will be awarded the opportunity to make it to the Asia Cup. This is a first in the history of the ACC Women’s T20 Championship, where, the top two qualifying teams will make it to the Women’s T20 Asia Cup.”
10 teams in 2 Groups
will compete for the 2 qualifying spots for the Asia Cup to be played later this year.
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Women’s cricket has been on a resurgence after the introduction of the T20 format to the game, and this tournament provides a perfect platform for some of the lesser-known names to showcase their talent on a global stage.
Where can you watch ACC Women’s T20 Championship 2022 LIVE?
You can watch it on Female Cricket’s Youtube channel.
ACC Women’s T20 Championship 2022: Complete Squad
| Bahrain | Bhutan | Hong Kong | Kuwait | Malaysia |
| Deepika Rasangika (c) | Yeshey Choden (c) | Kary Chan (c) | Amna Tariq (c) | Winifred Duraisingam (c) |
| Tharanga Gajanayake (vc) | Tashi Cheki | Yasmin Daswani (vc, wk) | Maryyam Ashraf | Mas Elysa (vc) |
| Vilcita Barboza | Ngawang Choden | Maryam Bibi | Aakriti Bose (wk) | Nik Nur Atiela |
| Deepika Bhaskara | Sonam Choden | Betty Chan | Venora D’Souza | Sasha Azmi |
| Gayani Fernando | Karma Dema | Hiu Ying Cheung | Siobhan Gomez | Aisya Eleesa |
| Rasika Hathadurage (wk) | Anju Gurung | Mariko Hill | Mariamma Hyder | Ainna Hamizah Hashim |
| Poorvaja Jagdeesha | Tashi Lhaden | Elysa Hubbard | Maria Jasvi | Elsa Hunter |
| Prajna Jagdeesha | Pema Seldon | Emma Lai | Zeefa Jilani | Jamahidaya Intan |
| Sachini Jayasinghe | Sonam Sonam | Natasha Miles | Khadija Khalil | Wan Julia |
| Shashikala Prakash | Dechen Wangmo | Bella Poon | Mofida Kocchargi | Dhanusri Mahunan |
| Rasika Rodrigo | Sangay Wangmo | Iqra Sahar | Glenda Menes | Aina Najwa |
| Pavithra Shetty | Eva Somsel Yangzom | Shanzeen Shahzad (wk) | Priyada Murali | Arianna Natsya |
| Ishara Suhun | Dechen Zangmo | Alison Siu | Maryam Omar | Nur Dania Syuhada |
| Abeera Waris | Tshering Zangmo | Ruchitha Venkatesh | Balasubramani Shanti | Yusrina Yaakop |
| Nepal | Oman | Qatar | Singapore | UAE |
| Rubina Chhetry (c) | Vaishali Jesrani (c) | Aysha (c) | Shafina Mahesh (c) (wk) | Chaya Mughal (c) |
| Indu Barma (vc) | Fiza Javed (vc) | Hiral Agarwal | Chathurani Abeyratne | Samaira Dharnidharka |
| Apsari Begam | Afida Aftab | Sarrinah Ahamed | Ada Bhasin | Kavisha Egodage |
| Dolly Bhatta | Nayan Anil | Raiha Arshad | Riyaa Bhasin | Siya Gokhale |
| Mamta Chaudhary | Saya Channa | Shahreen Bahadur | Diviya G K | Priyanjali Jain |
| Kabita Joshi | Amanda Dcosta | Saachi Dhadwal | Saumya Gurusinghe | Lavanya Keny |
| Asmina Karmacharya | Nikitha Jagdish | Rizpha Bano Emmanuel (wk) | Vinu Kumar | Suraksha Kotte |
| Kabita Kunwar | Sameera Khan | Khadija Imtiaz | Vigineswari Pasupathy | Vaishnave Mahesh |
| Sita Rana Magar | Priyanka Mendonca | Trupti Kale | Jocelyn Pooranakaran | Indhuja Nandakumar |
| Jyoti Pandey (wk) | Sushanthika Sathiya | Aleena Khan | Johanna Pooranakaran | Esha Oza |
| Sabnam Rai | Alfiya Sayed | Hiya Ladani | Damini Ramesh | Rithika Rajith |
| Sangita Rai | Bhakti Shetty | Angeline Mare | Ishita Shukla | Theertha Satish |
| Bindu Rawal | Sakshi Shetty (wk) | Rochelle Quyn | Zay Hua Tan | Khushi Sharma |
| Kajal Shrestha (wk) | Sani Zehra | Shrutiben Rana | Ananyapriya Venkata | Sanchin Singh |
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