Netherlands women's cricket team

Netherlands

Flag of the Netherlands
Nickname(s)	Lionesses
Association	KNCB
Personnel
Captain	Heather Siegers
Coach	Sean Trouw
International Cricket Council
ICC status	Associate member (1966)
ICC region	Europe
Women's Tests
Only WTest	v  South Africa at the Hazelaarweg Stadion, Rotterdam; 28–31 July 2007
WTests Played Won/Lost Total 1 0/1 (0 draws)
Women's One Day Internationals
First WODI	v  New Zealand at Sportpark Koninklijke HFC, Haarlem; 8 August 1984
Last WODI	v  Ireland at Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan No 3 Ground, Dhaka; 24 November 2011
WODIs Played Won/Lost Total 101 19/81 (0 ties, 1 no result)
Women's World Cup Appearances	4 (first in 1988)
Best result	5th (1988)
Women's World Cup Qualifier Appearances	3 (first in 2003)
Best result	3rd (2003)
Women's Twenty20 Internationals
First WT20I	v  West Indies at Sportpark Maarschalkerweerd, Utrecht; 1 July 2008
Last WT20I	v  Ireland at Sportpark Maarschalkerweerd, Utrecht; 20 August 2011
WT20Is Played Won/Lost Total 11 10/0 (0 ties, 1 no result)
Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier Appearances	2 (first in 2013)
Best result	4th (2013)
As of 26 December 2017

The Netherlands women's national cricket team, nicknamed the Lionesses, represents the Netherlands in international women's cricket. The team is organised by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond (KNCB), which has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1966.

A Dutch women's team first played an international match in 1937, when Australia toured on its way to play a series in England. The team regularly played fixtures against English club sides over the following decades, but it was not until the early 1980s that regular international competition commenced. The Netherlands made its One Day International (ODI) debut in 1984, against New Zealand, and made its World Cup debut at the 1988 edition of the tournament, in Australia. Considered a top-level team from the late 1980s through to the early 2000s, the Netherlands participated in four consecutive World Cups between 1988 and 2000, and made the quarter-finals of the 1997 event. Since 2000, the Dutch side has not qualified for either the World Cup or the World Twenty20, although it retained ODI status until the 2011 World Cup Qualifier. In 2007, the team played a one-off Test match against South Africa, joining Ireland as the only associate member of the ICC to play at that level.

The Netherlands took part in women's international cricket from its earliest years, as early as 1937 they hosted the Australians on the first leg of their first ever Women's Ashes tour, before visiting England late the same year.