Herman's Ratings for Women's Cricket

Cricket is played by women on an international level by just 14 nations.

(Test Cricket is even rarer : only nine nations)

The History of Women's ODI cricket (with ratings) can be found here.

Herman's Women's Ratings after the series NZL-IND (2006-03-13) :

team	batt	bowl	rating	matches	start/yr
Australia	237	134	+102.8	19.9	+85.8 (1)
New Zealand	232	143	+89.2	17.7	+53.4 (3)
England	224	159	+64.4	21.5	+48.7 (4)
India	215	155	+60.8	27.4	+60.3 (2)
South Africa	178	198	-20.4	6.9	-29.1 (5)
England A	162	196	-34.2	3.8	-29.2 (6)
West Indies	158	208	-49.9	7.9	-55.6 (7)
England under 19	99	150	-51.2	0.2	-58.7 (8)
Sri Lanka	126	199	-72.9	10.9	-65.5 (9)
Ireland	123	216	-93.2	10.5	-98.1 (10)
Denmark	77	191	-114.4	0.1	-117.5 (11)
Pakistan	111	231	-120.3	6.8	-122.7 (13)
Netherlands	139	302	-162.5	5.8	-124.7 (12)
Wales	130	295	-165.5	3.6	-
Scotland	87	386	-299.3	5.0	-292.9 (14)
Japan	43	392	-348.3	1.0	-382.5 (15)
Overall avg	185	185

The team "England A" was formed in 1999 to contest the European Cup, which England had won four times already. The second side did just as well by winning the fifth edition. In 2001, the tournament was contested by the England - under 19 side. In 2005, it was the turn of the "England Development Squead", which I equate with the England A side.

Also included in these ratings are the results from the IWWC (now considered ODI's), and the European Championships, in which Wales made their first appearance in 2005.

Test Cricket ratings

The History of Women's test cricket (with ratings) can be found here.

Only nine nations play four-day matches against each other. The West Indies played a few series in the 80's, and have now played Pakistan.

Ireland and Sri Lanka have also only played Pakistan, but of these four only the West Indies very long ago met any of the top five, so the ratings are separate for two groups.
The test ratings turn out to be :

Herman's Women's Test Ratings after the only test India - England (2005-11-24) :

team	batting	bowling	rating	matches	start/yr
India	30.69	22.68	+160	1.0	+153 (1)
New Zealand	26.67	25.89	+16	0.3	+32 (4)
Australia	22.34	22.48	-3	1.5	+35 (3)
England	28.57	29.34	-15	2.8	+43 (2)
South Africa	23.41	44.37	-419	0.3	-334 (5)
Ireland	61.17	5.34	+1117	0.0	+1133 (6)
Sri Lanka	32.44	10.41	+441	0.0	+447 (7)
Pakistan	35.11	28.36	+135	0.2	+137 (8)
West Indies	27.91	41.31	-268	0.2	-272 (9)
Average	26.97	27.04

I realize quite well that Ireland's rating seems ludicrously high. However, who is to say they would not have scored 500 runs in each innings (they declared at 193 for 3) against Pakistan (who themselves were bowled out for 53 and 86). But of course these ratings do not work on just two matches.

Written 1999-07-06 - last adapted 2006-03-16