Papua New Guinea made its international debut in September 2006, playing a three-match series against
Japan to determine which team would represent the
ICC East Asia-Pacific (EAP) region at the
2008 World Cup Qualifier. Papua New Guinea won the series against Japan three–nil, but at the World Cup Qualifier won only two matches, both against
Bermuda. The team failed to qualify for either the
2011 World Cup Qualifier or the
2013 World Twenty20 Qualifier, with Japan representing the EAP region on both occasions. At the
2015 Pacific Games, which Papua New Guinea hosted,
a women's cricket event was included for the first time. The team narrowly lost to
Samoa in the final, having been undefeated up to that point. The team played its first
WT20I match against
Bangladesh on 7 July 2018 at
VRA Cricket Ground,
Amstelveen in the
Netherlands in the
2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier. In December 2020, the ICC announced the qualification pathway for the
2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup. Papua New Guinea were named in the
2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup EAP Qualifier regional group, alongside seven other teams. However, in August 2021, the
International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that the tournament had been cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, and due to their ranking, Papua New Guinea qualified for the
global qualifier held in 2022. In October 2021, it was reported that Australian
Kath Hempenstall had been appointed head coach of the Lewas in preparation for the
2021 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in
Zimbabwe, and it was expected that Hempenstall would meet the team in person for the first time there. However, on 8 November 2021, Papua New Guinea announced that they had been forced to withdraw due to several players testing positive for COVID-19. In May 2022, the ICC announced Papua New Guinea as one of five women's sides to gain
Women's One Day International (ODI) status. The team played its first
WODI match against
Zimbabwe on 24 March 2024 at the
Harare Sports Club,
Harare during their
tour of Zimbabwe. ==Current squad==