Alyssa Healy and Ellyse Perry and Beth Mooney headline the 15-strong Australian squad for the Women’s T20 World Cup - but there was one notable absentee.
In the World Cup final,Australia kept South Africa where they’ve kept the world for a decade:at arm’s length. All that remains for this extraordinary,pioneering team is to be beaten.
An unbeaten 74 from Beth Mooney helped Australia set South Africa 157 to win the T20 World Cup – a score the home side was unable to achieve.
When Ellyse Perry returned to the Australian T20 side in 2021,more than a year after tearing her hamstring during the home T20 World Cup,it appeared the shortest form of the game had left her behind.
Australia’s march into another World Cup final coincides with unprecedented numbers of girls playing cricket.
The reigning champions are through to their seventh straight women’s T20 World Cup final after a five-run win over India in the semis.
Australia have cruised past Sri Lanka in their T20 World Cup clash after Beth Mooney and Alyssa Healy put on an unbroken stand of 113 to secure a 10-wicket win.
Meg Lanning’s side joined Sri Lanka on two wins from two in Group 1 after comfortably chasing down 108 at the Women’s T20 World Cup in South Africa.
Ash Gardner’s first five-wicket haul in international cricket helped Australia thump New Zealand in South Africa.
As the women’s 20-over world cup gets under way in South Africa,the top players know one standout innings could clinch a lucrative deal in Monday’s inaugural WPL player auction.
Cricketers from across the globe are hailing the introduction of the Women’s Premier League - the women’s answer to the IPL - with one even describing it as a “middle finger up to all those people who have devalued women’s sport”.