India Women finished the year in the shortest format with the sensational series win over the West Indies. Smriti Mandhana led from the front with the bat and also became the highest run-scorer this year in the format. Here's the list of top five players to score most runs in T20Is in 2024.
19 slots have remained vacant after each of the five teams announced their retentions ahead of the WPL 2025 auction. UP Warriorz have retained the most number of players - 15 - while Gujarat Giants released some of the high-profile names including Sneh Rana, Lea Tahuhu, who just won a T20 World Cup.
Australia, West Indies, New Zealand and South Africa have made it to the semifinals of the ongoing Women's T20 World Cup in the UAE. Despite promising a lot in the lead-up, none of the Asian teams have managed to qualify for the knockouts.
Australia kicked their campaign off with a win against Sri Lanka but it wasn't in the usual convincing way as the six-time champions are habitual of, in the Women's T20 World Cup 2024. Sri Lanka failed to get a huge score and captain Chamari Athapaththu's dismissal was a key moment in the game.
Captain Fatima Sana top-scored with 30 runs to help Pakistan score a challenging total of 116 after the early collapse and then also dismissed Sri Lankan skipper Chamari Athapaththu to guide her team to a big win in the second match of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2024.
India and Sri Lanka players have improved their rankings significantly in the latest ICC T20I rankings released for the first time since the Asia Cup. Sri Lanka won the Women's Asia Cup for the first time beating seven-time champions India in the summit clash in Dambulla.
Sri Lanka beat India to turn their luck around in the Women's Asia Cup finals against the Women in Blue to clinch their maiden title in the continental tournament. Sri Lanka skipper Chamari Athapaththu and Harshitha Samarawickrama smashed fifties to make short work of a 166-run chase.
Sri Lanka beat India for the first time in a Women's Asia Cup match and what better game to do that than the final as the hosts finally got a result in their favour after losing five finals against the Women in Blue. Skipper Chamari Athapaththu and Harshitha Madhavi slammed fifties for Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka will not be pushovers in the final as they have been going through some excellent form lately. In the past two years, they have beaten formidable opponents like New Zealand, England, West Indies and South Africa.
IND-W vs SL-W, Women's Asia Cup final live: Indian women's cricket team registered an impressive 10-run win over Bangladesh in the first semi-final while Sri Lanka survived a last-over drama against Pakistan to enter the final.
Chamari Athapaththu led her team's charge with the bat during Sri Lanka's clash against Malaysia in the Women's Asia Cup 2024. Athapaththu became the first player in Women's Asia Cup history to smash a hundred in the tournament. She also registered several other milestones.
West Indies are enjoying a strong start to their campaign in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 with three successive wins and early qualification to the Super 8 round. The Star spin duo of Gudakesh Motie and Akeal Hosein have taken a combined 12 wickets in the tournament so far.
Chamari Athapaththu is the only Sri Lankan player in the history of women's cricket to register two centuries in T20Is. Fatuma Omari Kibasu of Tanzania and UAE's Esha Oza are the only two players in the history of the women's sport to hit three international T20I tons.
Sri Lanka have qualified to the Women's T20 World Cup as Qualifier 1 and find themselves in the group of death alongside Australia, India, Pakistan and New Zealand. Sri Lanka gave Scotland a proper thrashing in the qualifiers final riding on the captain Chamari Athapaththu's record century.
Chamari Athapaththu and Nilkashi de Silva were the stars of Sri Lanka's historic run chase. The pair added 179 runs for the fifth wicket to help the visitors chase the target down with 33 balls to spare.
This is Sri Lanka's first-ever series win over the Proteas across formats. Chamari Athapaththu led from the front and scored a match-winning half-century in the third T20I to complete a 2-1 series win for Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankan skipper Chamari Athapaththu, who is in India for her first appearance in the Women's Premier League (WPL), paid respect to the Indian national anthem. In a video shared by her franchise UP Warriorz, Athapaththu was seen singing Indian national anthem pretty well during WPL 2024 opener.
The second edition of the Women's Premier League is just 10 days away and there already have been a few changes in the personnel on and off the field following the auction and also the venues. The 2024 edition of WPL will kick off on February 23 at Bengaluru's M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Lauren Bell failed to make any appearances for UP Warriorz in the Women's Premier League 2023 but was expected to lead the bowling attack in the upcoming season. The English pacer has been replaced by the legendary Sri Lankan all-rounder for a base price of INR 30 lakh.
ICC recently named the best T20I Player of the Year for 2023. The International Board has now named the best ODI Player of 2023. ICC also named the best T20I cricketer of the year for 2023 as Suryakumar Yadav bagged the honour.
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