Australia lead group after emphatic win over Bangladesh

Australia lead group after emphatic win over Bangladesh

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.

  • byGerald Imray

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Gardner haul steers Australia to opening T20 World Cup win

Gardner haul steers Australia to opening T20 World Cup win

Ash Gardner’s first five-wicket haul in international cricket helped Australia thump New Zealand in South Africa.

  • byAnnesha Ghosh
‘Elephant in the room’:WPL auction looms large over T20 World Cup

‘Elephant in the room’:WPL auction looms large over T20 World Cup

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.

  • byMelinda Farrell
A ‘middle finger’ to the haters:Women’s Premier League makes a huge splash

A ‘middle finger’ to the haters:Women’s Premier League makes a huge splash

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”.

  • byRussell Bennett
Lanning,Healy named for T20 World Cup defence as big names miss out

Lanning,Healy named for T20 World Cup defence as big names miss out

Two of Australia’s greatest players have been included in a 15-player squad for matches against Pakistan before a T20 World Cup campaign in South Africa.

  • byTom Decent
Cricket’s climate change:Why Australia will be stuck with October World Cups

Cricket’s climate change:Why Australia will be stuck with October World Cups

Australia will have to get used to hosting October cricket World Cups,as global forces conspire to block out the February-March period.

  • byDaniel Brettig
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Returning to life outside the COVID bubble may extend Perry’s career

Returning to life outside the COVID bubble may extend Perry’s career

Ellyse Perry believes the end of COVID-19 bubble life will motivate Australia’s all-conquering team to stay together.

  • byDaniel Brettig
‘We were exposed’:The uncertain start of an Australian cricket juggernaut

‘We were exposed’:The uncertain start of an Australian cricket juggernaut

Alex Blackwell contends that Australia should have won both the Twenty20 World Cup in 2016 and the 50-over cup the following year.

  • byDaniel Brettig
‘Step up and do something’:Healy embodies Australia’s World Cup makeover

‘Step up and do something’:Healy embodies Australia’s World Cup makeover

When Alyssa Healy ponders the cricketer and person she was back in 2017,the self-assessment is frank,even brutal.

  • byDaniel Brettig
Tests still a puzzle as Australia flip to familiar T20 mode

Tests still a puzzle as Australia flip to familiar T20 mode

Australia’s captain Meg Lanning freely admits she struggles with the myriad unfamiliar scenarios presented by Test matches.

  • byDaniel Brettig
Good Weekend's 40 Australians Who Mattered:Sport

Good Weekend's 40 Australians Who Mattered:Sport

The huge logistical and political juggling act of keeping alive the most popular game in the country fell on AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan. Plus,Peter V’landys and Meg Lanning.

  • byKonrad Marshall