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”.
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.
Australia will have to get used to hosting October cricket World Cups,as global forces conspire to block out the February-March period.
Ellyse Perry believes the end of COVID-19 bubble life will motivate Australia’s all-conquering team to stay together.
Alex Blackwell contends that Australia should have won both the Twenty20 World Cup in 2016 and the 50-over cup the following year.
When Alyssa Healy ponders the cricketer and person she was back in 2017,the self-assessment is frank,even brutal.
Australia’s captain Meg Lanning freely admits she struggles with the myriad unfamiliar scenarios presented by Test matches.
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.