Cricket Association of Thailand (CAT) have announced the schedule of matches for the upcoming Thailand Women’s T20 Smash tournament, to be played from Jan 12th – 16th, 2018. All matches will be played at Terdthai Cricket Ground and Asian Institute of Technology ground. The tournament will be played with official T20I status with matches involving “Thailand A” exempted from the status.
Women’s team’s from Hong Kong, Indonesia, UAE, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Nepal & Malaysia will join national squad of Thailand along with Thailand “A” team to form the 9-nation, 10-team International T20 tournament. Each matchday will see 4 games in play with 2 games in the morning session starting at 9:30am (Local) and the afternoon session games starting at 1:30pm (Local).
UAE, Nepal, China, Malaysia and Thailand A will be in Group A of the tournament while Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia, Bhutan and Myanmar will be in Group B. The group phase will be a single round-robin format followed by the semis and the finals. Top 2 from each group will qualify for the semi-finals while there will be play-off matches to determine till the 8th place for the tournament. The tournament will provide crucial match-time for the team’s as the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifiers (Asia Region) will be held in Feb 2019 in Thailand.
As announced originally, Namibia women’s squad would not be participating in the tournament as they will be hosting Zimbabwe women in a 5-match T20 International series at home and their place has been taken up by China.
Thailand and UAE are the strongly placed team’s in the tournament, having taken part in the 2018 ICC Women’s World T20 Global qualifiers held in Netherlands in Jul 2018. Indonesia Women’s squad were in Sri Lanka few months earlier along with their male counterparts and played a series of matches against local clubs. China Women were also involved in a 3-match T20I bi-lateral series against South Korea a few weeks ago.
2019 Thailand Women’s Smash T20 Schedule
12th Jan 2019: UAE Women vs Thailand “A” Women (Scorecard) ; Nepal Women vs China Women (Scorecard) ; Thailand Women vs Myanmar Women (Scorecard) ; Hong Kong Women vs Indonesia Women (Scorecard)
13th Jan 2019: Malaysia Women vs Nepal Women (Scorecard) ; Myanmar Women vs Indonesia Women (Scorecard) ; Bhutan Women vs Hong Kong Women (Scorecard) ; UAE Women vs China Women (Scorecard)
14th Jan 2019: Thailand Women vs Hong Kong Women (Scorecard) ; Indonesia Bhutan vs Bhutan Women (Scorecard) ; Thailand “A” Women vs Malaysia Women (Scorecard) ; Nepal Women vs UAE Women (Scorecard)
15th Jan 2019: Bhutan Women vs Myanmar Women (Scorecard) ; Malaysia Women vs UAE Women (Scorecard) ; China Women vs Thailand “A” Women (Scorecard) ; Thailand Women vs Indonesia Women (Scorecard)
16th Jan 2019: Nepal Women vs Thailand “A” Women (Scorecard) ; China Women vs Malaysia Women (Scorecard) ; Myanmar Women vs Hong Kong Women (Scorecard) ; Thailand Women vs Bhutan Women (Scorecard)
18th Jan 2019: Nepal Women vs Indonesia Women (Scorecard) ; Thailand Women vs UAE Women (Scorecard) ; Malaysia Women vs Myanmar Women (Scorecard)
19th Jan 2019: Indonesia Women vs UAE Women (Scorecard) ; Myanmar Women vs Hong Kong Women (Scorecard) ; Thailand Women vs Nepal Women (Scorecard)
