Organised women's cricket in Tanzania began in 1999, when the
Tanzania Cricket Association (TCA) introduced "
chanzo cricket" for girls into primary schools. A national under-15 team was created in 2002 for a regional tournament. The development of the sport has been hindered by social taboos against women's participation in sport, especially those with children. The TCA hosted the inaugural African women's cricket championships in 2004, with limited involvement from the
International Women's Cricket Council (IWCC). The national team was unbeaten, defeating
Uganda,
Kenya and
Namibia in the round-robin and winning the final against Uganda by 8 wickets. In March 2018, Tanzania was invited to participate in the
2018 ASEAN Women's T20 Open Tournament as a guest team, finishing as runner-up to the hosts
Thailand. 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 Tanzania women and another international side since 1 July 2018 have been full WT20Is. In December 2020, the ICC announced the qualification pathway for the
2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup. Tanzania were named in the
2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier regional group, alongside ten other teams. Tanzanian batter
Fatuma Kibasu scored her second T20I century in September 2021, an innings of 127 not out from 66 balls against
Eswatini in the
2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier, becoming only the fifth woman and the first from an ICC associate member team to score multiple T20I centuries. ==Current squad==