Thailand\, Bangladesh qualify for 2020 Women\'s T20 World Cup



Thailand, Bangladesh qualify for 2020 Women's T20 World Cup

10 teams who have qualified for the T20 World Cup in to be held in Australia in 2020.


Thailand and Bangladesh qualify for 2020 Women's T20 World Cup

Thailand created history on Thursday after it qualified for the women's T20 World Cup along with Bangladesh which also qualified for the world tournament to be held in Australia in 2020.

Take a look at the full list of final 10 teams which will be locking horns at women's T20 World Cup in Australia in 2020.

Here are the 10 teams who have qualified for the T20 World Cup in Australia:

  1. Australia
  2. England
  3. India
  4. New Zealand
  5. Pakistan
  6. South Africa
  7. Sri Lanka
  8. West Indies
  9. Bangladesh
  10. Thailand

It was a dream coming true moment for the Thailand women's cricket team as it qualified for the T20 world cup for the very first time. Chasing a total of 67 runs against PNG women, Thailand achieved the target in the 18th over with 8 wickets still in hand.

Naruemol Chaiwai and Nathakan Chantham were the top scorers with 32 and 18 runs respectively.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Bangladesh also qualified for the women's T20 World Cup 2020 after it thrashed Ireland while chasing a mere total of 85.

Though it lost early wickets, the team still managed to bag the victory with 4 wickets in hand and 9 balls to spare.

The T20 women's World Cup will be held from February 21 to March 8, 2020.

Taking place six months ahead of the men's T20 World Cup, India will go head to head against Australia who is the defending champion.

On Thursday, Mithali Raj, known as the pioneer of women's cricket in India shared that she feels after coming under the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), it was a turning point for women's sport in the country.

Her remarks came after she decided to retire from T20I format. Raj went on to represent India in 89 T20Is, managing to score 2,364 runs.

"Well, I think the turning point, in my opinion, has to be 2006 as in that year we came under BCCI. With that a lot of facilities were provided to us, a lot of things changed for good and better. Since then, there has been a gradual improvement in respect to the access in facilities like NCA and an increase in the support staff," Raj had said.

"Lot more matches and international series started to get scheduled for us and also contracts came into effect which gave security to the players and they were able to focus on their game," she added.

BCCI also announced women's squad for the upcoming ODI and T20I series against South Africa. The first T20I match will be held in Surat on September 24. 

(With ANI Inputs)