Zimbabwe national women's cricket team
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The Zimbabwean women's cricket team is the team that represents the country of Zimbabwe
in international women's cricket
. They played their first internationals as part of the African regional qualifiers for the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup
in December 2006, when they played Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. They won the tournament, thus qualifying for the Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier
in Pakistan
in 2007.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...
in international women's cricket
Women's cricket
Women's cricket is the form of the team sport of cricket that is played by women.-History:The first recorded match of women's cricket was reported in The Reading Mercury on 26 July 1745, a match contested "between eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambledon, all dressed in white." The...
. They played their first internationals as part of the African regional qualifiers for the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup
Women's Cricket World Cup
The ICC Women's Cricket World Cup is a Women's one-day international cricket competition. The first tournament was held in England in 1973, two years before the first men's ICC Cricket World Cup....
in December 2006, when they played Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. They won the tournament, thus qualifying for the Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier
Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier
The Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier, formerly the IWCC Trophy, is a cricket tournament that serves as a qualifying tournament for the Women's Cricket World Cup. It has been played once so far, in 2003, the second tournament was to take place in Lahore, Pakistan in November 2007 but was...
in Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
in 2007.