The
Malian Cricket Federation established a national women's programme in March 2014. Captained by Aminata Diamouténé, Mali made its international debut at the inaugural 2015 North West Africa Cricket Council (NWACC) women's tournament held in the Gambia. The team finished fourth behind
Sierra Leone,
Gambia, and
Ghana. In April 2018, the
International Cricket Council (ICC) granted full
Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all
Twenty20 matches played between Mali women and other
ICC members after 1 July 2018 have the WT20I status. The team was one of four sides to play in the
2019 Kwibuka Women's T20 Tournament at the
Gahanga International Cricket Stadium in
Rwanda. On 18 June 2019, in their opening match, against hosts
Rwanda women, the team was bowled out for just six runs in nine overs. Only one cricketer for Mali, opener Mariam Samake, scored a run in the match, with nine other players dismissed for a
duck and
extras contributed the other five runs to the total. It was the first time an innings of an international cricket match had nine ducks on the scorecard. Rwanda women chased down the target of seven runs in four balls, winning the match by ten wickets. In their next two matches of the tournament, against
Tanzania and
Uganda, the team were bowled out for eleven and ten runs respectively. Therefore, Mali recorded the
three lowest totals in WT20Is in their first three matches on three consecutive days. Uganda scored 314 runs from their twenty overs, recording the
highest total in a WT20I match. Mali lost the match by 304 runs, the
biggest margin of defeat by runs in a WT20I fixture. Mali went on to lose all of their matches in the tournament, finishing with totals of 6, 11, 10, 30/9, 17 and 14 from the six matches they played. Following the conclusion of the tournament, some cricket statisticians questioned the ICC's decision to grant full international status to all of Mali's matches. ==Records and statistics==