Thailand Women’s team breaks Australia’s world record in Women’s T20 Internationals

Thailand Women’s team has stunningly gone past Australia in terms of consecutive wins in the T20 Internationals. They have registered 17 back-t0-back wins in the shortest format of the game and left the Aussies behind with a clinical victory over The Netherlands by eight wickets. Australia earlier held the record with 16 consecutive wins to their name.

Their winning streak began in July 2018 when Thailand Women defeated UAE at Utrecht in the Netherlands and since then haven’t lost a single T20I. They defeated Uganda, Myanmar, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Bhutan, Nepal, China, Kuwait, Malaysia, Scotland, Ireland and The Netherlands during this period. Having created the world record, Thailand will now be eager to continue their winning run and take a further step towards playing against the bigger teams.

They are currently playing in the women’s quadrangular series which also feature the Netherlands, Ireland and Scotland and have won a game each against them so far.

Australia held the record since 2015

As far as Australia Women is concerned, their 16-match winning streak had started in March 2014 after which they won bilateral series against Pakistan, Windies and Ireland to stretch their run. The other teams closest to the winning streak are England, Zimbabwe (14-match streak) and New Zealand, Australia (12-match streak).

Thailand’s progress has been superb over the last couple of years. They also defeated Sri Lanka women last year in the Women’s Twenty20 Asia Cup in 2018 which was also their first-ever victory against a full member side. In the ongoing quadrangular series, they are the favourites to win the tournament. Their three victories in the competition so far have been clinical and the latest one came after bowling out the Netherlands for just 54.

Interestingly, Thailand will face Ireland and The Netherlands in the upcoming Women’s T20 World Cup qualifiers which will get underway on August 31 in Scotland.