Considered a top-level team from the late 1980s through to the early 2000s, the Netherlands participated in four consecutive World Cups between 1988 and 2000, and made the quarter-finals of the 1997 event.

Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between the Netherlands women and another international side since 1 July 2018 have the full WT20I status.

As early as 1937 they hosted the Australians on the first leg of their first ever Women's Ashes tour,[14] before visiting England late the same year.

They lost that game by 67 runs, and were next seen in international cricket in 1988, playing in their first World Cup, in which they finished in last place.

1997 was a busy year for the Dutch team, travelling to the Mikkelberg-Kunst-und-Cricket Center in Germany to play two ODIs against Denmark, a trip they repeated in 1998.

1999 was a year with a steep learning curve when another tour to Sri Lanka, where they suffered a 5–0 defeat in the five-match ODI series.

the hosts took a 4–0 lead in the seven match ODI series but the Netherlands bounced back admirably winning the final three games.

Good news came from the ICC which announced that the top ten women's teams would have Test and ODI status.

[15] The Netherlands were named in the 2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier regional group, alongside five other teams.

[16] In May 2022 the ICC gave the Netherlands women ODIO status together with PNG, Thailand, Scotland and the USA.

In April and May the Netherlands played in the ICC T20 World Cup Global Qualifier in Abu Dhabi, missing the semi finals on net run rate.