The Women's Asia Cup (Asian Women’s Cricket Championships), officially known as the ACC Women's Asia Cup is a women's One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket tournament. It was established in 2004 and is a biennial tournament. The tournament is contested by cricket teams from Asia.[1]
| Administrator | Asian Cricket Council |
|---|---|
| Format | One Day International and Twenty20 International |
| First edition | 2004 ( Sri Lanka) |
| Latest edition | 2022 ( Bangladesh) |
| Next edition | 2024 |
| Tournament format | Round-robin and knockouts |
| Number of teams | 8 |
| Current champion |  India (7th title) |
| Most successful | India (7 titles) |
| Most runs | Mithali Raj (588) |
| Most wickets | Neetu David (26) |
The first Women's Asia Cup was held in 2004 on Colombo and Kandy in the Sri Lanka. The 2020 edition was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic before being cancelled. The ICC has ruled that all the matches played in the Women's Asia Cup has ODI or T20I status. The 2012 Women's Asia Cup was the first event to be played in the T20 format. By the end of 2022, there have been eight Women’s Asia Cup tournaments with India winning the most number of titles (7).[2]
History
| Season | Format | Champion |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | ODI | India |
| 2005–06 | ODI | India (2) |
| 2006 | ODI | India (3) |
| 2008 | ODI | India (4) |
| 2012 | T20I | India (5) |
| 2016 | T20I | India (6) |
| 2018 | T20I | Bangladesh |
| 2022 | T20I | India (7) |
One-Day Internationals
The first Women's Asia Cup was played in Sri Lanka in April 2004. Only two teams took part, India and Sri Lanka and they played a five match One-Day International series against each other. India won all five matches and won the first Women's Asia Cup.[3]
Karachi, Pakistan hosted the second Women's Asia Cup in December 2005 and January 2006.[4] Pakistan made their first appearance in the tournament.[5] India again won the tournament, beating Sri Lanka by 97 runs in the final.[6]
The third Women's Asia Cup tournament was played in Jaipur, India in December 2006.[7] The tournament went very much the way of the previous event. India beat Sri Lanka in the final, this time by eight wickets.[8]
The fourth Women's Asia Cup tournament was played in Sri Lanka in May 2008. India again won the tournament, defeating Sri Lanka by 177 runs in the final.[9]
Twenty20 cricket
The fifth Women's Asia Cup Tournament was played in Guanggong Cricket Stadium, Guangzhou, China from 24 to 31 October 2012. India defeated Pakistan by 19 runs in the final [10][11]
The sixth Women's Asia Cup tournament was played in Thailand, from 27 November to 4 December 2016. India beat Pakistan by 17 runs in the final, becoming champion for the 6th time consecutively.
The seventh Women's Asia Cup tournament was played in Malaysia, from 3 June to 10 June 2018.[12] Bangladesh beat six-time winner India by 3 wickets in the final to clinch their first Asia Cup title.[13]
A tournament was due to take place in 2020 in Bangladesh,[14] but was postponed to 2021 (and eventually 2022) due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[15] The 2022 edition of the tournament took place at Sylhet, Bangladesh in October 2022.[16]India beat Sri Lanka in the final, this time by eight wickets by chasing a modest total of 65 and became 7th time winner.Jemimah Rodrigues was the highest run scorer of this tournament.
The ninth edition is scheduled to play in October to September 2024.[17]
Results
Performance by team
- Legend
- 1st – Champions
- 2nd – Runners-up
- 3rd – Third place
- SF - Semi-finalists
- GS – Group stage
- Q – Qualified
| Team | 2004 ODI (2) |  2005 ODI (3) | 2006 ODI (3) | 2008 ODI (4) |  2012 T20I (8) |  2016 T20I (6) |  2018 T20I (6) | 2022 T20I (7) | 2024 T20I (8) | Total 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bangladesh | – | — | — | 4th | SF | 4th | 1st | 5th | Q | 6 |
 China | — | — | — | — | GS | — | — | — | — | 1 |
 Hong Kong | – | — | — | — | GS | — | — | — | — | 1 |
 India | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | Q | 9 |
 Malaysia | – | — | — | — | — | — | 6th | 7th | Q | 3 |
 Nepal | – | — | — | — | GS | 6th | — | — | Q | 3 |
 Pakistan | – | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | SF | Q | 8 |
 Sri Lanka | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | SF | 3rd | 4th | 2nd | Q | 9 |
 Thailand | – | — | — | — | GS | 5th | 5th | SF | Q | 5 |
 United Arab Emirates | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6th | Q | 2 |
Debutant teams in main tournament
| Year | Teams |
|---|---|
| 2004 | India, Sri Lanka |
| 2005 | Pakistan |
| 2008 | Bangladesh |
| 2012 | China,  Hong Kong,  Nepal, Thailand |
| 2018 | Malaysia |
| 2022 |  United Arab Emirates |
Ranking
Results
| # | Year | Host | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2004 | SRI | IND | SRI | 2 | ||||||
| 2 | 2005 | PAK | IND | SRI | PAK | 3 | |||||
| 3 | 2006 | IND | IND | SRI | PAK | 3 | |||||
| 4 | 2008 | SRI | IND | SRI | PAK | BAN | 4 | ||||
| 5 | 2012 | CHN | IND | PAK | BAN | SRI | THA | CHN | NEP | HKG | 8 |
| 6 | 2016 | THA | IND | PAK | SRI | BAN | THA | NEP | 6 | ||
| 7 | 2018 | MAS | BAN | IND | PAK | SRI | THA | MAS | 6 | ||
| 8 | 2022 | BAN | IND | SRI | PAK | THA | BAN | UAE | MAS | 7 | |
| 9 | 2024 | 8 | |||||||||
Medals
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India (IND) | 7 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 2 | Bangladesh (BAN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | Pakistan (PAK) | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 5 | Thailand (THA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | 8 | 8 | 9 | 25 | |
Summary
| Rank | Team | Part | M | W | L | D | NR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | India | 8 | 47 | 43 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Sri Lanka | 8 | 44 | 20 | 23 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Pakistan | 7 | 37 | 16 | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Bangladesh | 5 | 27 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Thailand | 4 | 20 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | China | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | United Arab Emirates | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Nepal | 2 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Malaysia | 1 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
Qualification
| # | Year | Games | Teams in Qualification | Qualified Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 - 7 | 2004 - 2018 | No Qualification | ||
| 8 | 2022 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup | 2022 ACC Women's T20 Championship | 10 | 2 + 4 |
| 9 | 2024 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup | 2024 ACC Women's Premier Cup | 16 | 2 + 4 |
| Total | 2 | Women's Asia Cup Qualification | Max:16 | Max:6 |
See also
- Asia Cup - the equivalent men's event
- Asian Test Championship
- ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup
- ACC Under-19 Cup