Falcons (women's cricket)

Falcons were formed in April 2022 to compete in the inaugural edition of the FairBreak Invitational T20,^[2][3] a multi-national women's Twenty20 cricket tournament, with Saba Nasim as the team manager.^[4] This was the first time that the team participated in any cricket competition at professional level.^[5] In May 2022, the all the tournament matches including the matches played by Falcons were sanctioned by the ICC.^[6] The team is made up of some of the best women players as well as emerging players from different countries of the world.^[7][8]

Falcons were captained by New Zealand cricketer Suzie Bates,^[9] and coached by Joanne Broadbent in the 2022 edition.^[10] They played their first ever WT20 match on 4 May 2022 against Warriors.^[11] They had a good start to their campaign by winning the opening match by 8 wickets,^[12] with Chamari Athapaththu hitting a century.^[13] They finished fourth in the league stage, winning two out of five matches.^[14] Although they lost all of their last three matches, they gained enough points to qualify for the knockout stage.^[15] They became the first team to qualify for the final by defeating Spirit by 25 runs.^[16] However, they finished as the runners-up of the tournament, losing the final match against Tornadoes by 8 wickets.^[17] Chamari Athapaththu was the leading run-scorer in the tournament with 313 runs.^[18]

In March 2023, K-Man Ventures bought the rights to the franchise and became the sponsor of the team ahead of the 2023 season.^[19] Falcons took part in the 2023 season again under the leadership of Suzie Bates, with Joanne Broadbent remaining as the coach.^[20] They won three out of their five league matches, and advanced to the knockout stage by beating Falcons by 9 wickets in the last league match.^[21] Falcons won the semi-final match against Barmy Army by 6 wickets and thus qualified for the final of the tournament.^[22] However, they again became the runners-up by losing the final by 94 runs in reply to Warriors' target of 204 runs.^[23]