Women's cricket is thriving and the national team (made up of top athletes from other sports) did very well to reach the final of the 2007 ACC Women's Tournament. Nepal won the 2008 ACC Under-19 Women's Championship and defended its title in 2010. In the ACC Women Twenty20 in
Malaysia in 2009,
Singapore needed two runs off the last over for victory with five wickets intact. Rubina Chhetry was given the 'hopeless' over but she did a miracle by taking five wickets in five balls as the match ended in a draw as she threw a wide. Nepal won the match in
bowl-out. With the rare incident, Rubina also became the first Nepalese cricketer, men or women, to take a hat-trick. "I have never heard that any team has won the match taking five wickets in the last over, this is very, very rare," the then captain
Binod Das commented. On 26 April 2018, ICC announced that all the
T20 matches played between
ICC members will be awarded
T20I status starting from 1 July 2018 for women's cricket, as a result Nepal played their first T20I match against
China on 12 January 2019. In December 2020, the ICC announced the qualification pathway for the
2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup. Nepal were named in the
2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier regional group, alongside seven other teams. At the
2022 ACC Women's T20 Championship, Nepal reached the semifinals before being eliminated, losing to the
UAE not on the field, but rather on a lower net-run-rate than the latter, due to a rain-out. In late May to early June 2023, the Nepal women returned to action for the first time since 2022, with a 5-match T20 series against
Malaysia, winning 3-2. Later in June 2023, it was announced that Nepal would replace
Thailand at the
2023 ACC Women's T20 Emerging Teams Asia Cup, due to reported visa issues with the latter team. This was announced on short notice, as the announcement was made on the 8th, and their first match would be on the 13th of the month. Ultimately, they would only get to play one match against Pakistan A, losing 87-78, with their other scheduled matches against India A and Hong Kong rained out.
2024—present ==Current squad==