Women's Test cricket: Difference between revisions

In all, ten national women's teams have competed in Test cricket. The England team's tour of Australia and New Zealand in the 1934–35 season established the first three sides, and it is those three teams that have competed in Test cricket most frequently; each having played at least 45 matches. South Africa were the next side to play the format, contesting their first match in 1960.<ref name="Test summary">{{cite web|url=http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283305.html |title=Records / Women's Test matches / Team records / Results summary |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |accessdate=1 January 2015}}</ref> However, due in part to their exclusion from international sport due to the nation's [[apartheid]] policy,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thecommonwealth.org/news/34580/212035/206732/110609archivesouthafrica.htm |title=From the Archive: Gleneagles Agreement on Sport |publisher=[[Commonwealth Secretariat]] |date=11 June 2009 |accessdate=12 May 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120917023348/http://www.thecommonwealth.org/news/34580/212035/206732/110609archivesouthafrica.htm |archivedate=17 September 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> they have only played in eleven Test matches, less than both India and the West Indies. Four sides—Pakistan, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sri Lanka—have all competed in fewer than five Test matches.<ref name="Test summary"/>