Women's Twenty20 cricket is the newly emerging use of the Twenty20 match format in women's cricket. While both women's cricket and Twenty20 have themselves enjoyed recent success, women's Twenty20 has only been an international cricket game format since 2004. In June 2009, the ICC held the first ICC Women's World Twenty20 in England, the hosts became the first World Twenty20 champion.
The rules of Twenty20 are the same for both men and women.