Aussie legend gets world first honour
The first ever statue of a female cricketer has been unveiled at the SCG featuring an Australian legend.
The first ever statue of a female cricketer has been unveiled at the SCG featuring an Australian legend.
Meg Lanning hasn’t played for more than six months but is set for her cricketing return on Thursday.
Match-winning knocks at nationals, state team selections and Premier Grade milestones – Queensland club cricket is ramping up as we highlight last round’s top performers.
Not many international teams can go an entire year without losing a single match, but Australia went close.
An injury to stand-in skipper Alyssa Healy in India has opened the door for a new Australian captain.
She’s the number one T20 batter in the world and now Tahlia McGrath has set her sights on the riches available in the inaugural women’s Indian Premier League.
Left out of the team for nearly a year for not scoring fast enough, Ellyse Perry showed the superstar she is in India.
Before last October Tahlia McGrath had never played a T20 international and now she’s the best batter in the world.
Australia’s all-conquering women’s cricket team has suffered its first loss of 2022, going down to India in a T20 thriller.
Records were set in front of a sellout crowd, including the biggest super over in women’s T20 history, in a classic match in Mumbai.
She’s earned praise from test cricket legends with her social media exploits, and 10-year-old Kaya Kumar is stamping herself as one of the next big things in Sydney cricket as she chases an incredible goal.
She’s long worn the tag of Australian women’s cricket’s next big thing but Phoebe Litchfield won’t try to fill the shoes of retiring superstar Rachael Haynes.
Cricket Australia has revealed its “big aspirations” to see cricket included in the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics. Here’s the thinking behind the bid.
When Kim Garth first played for Ireland as a 14-year-old she had no idea her future could include playing for another country.
It’s been years in the making but the Adelaide Strikers have finally brought the WBBL trophy home to SA after shocking the Sixers to win their first title. See the pictures.
The England women’s cricket team will reportedly be permitted to boycott the player of the match award at the T20 World Cup.
Queensland’s Georgia Redmayne has been omitted from Australia’s T20 squad despite another stellar season at domestic level.
Teenage prodigy Phoebe Litchfield and former Ireland international Kim Garth have earned their maiden call-up to the Australian team.
Alyssa Healy will captain a new-look T20 side for the upcoming tour of India, including an Irish international, writes LACHLAN MCKIRDY.
A teenager and a former Irish quick who played for her country at 14 headline the new-look Australian T20 squad.
Three Sixers players made the WBBL team of the tournament but there was a major shock, with one of the game’s greats missing out.
There was rain and storms and a six-wicket haul as the WBBL regular season came to a dramatic close to set up the finals.
The Perth Scorchers have been bundled out of the Women’s Big Bash League, ending their season with three straight losses.
Australia holds every trophy in women’s cricket and star all-rounder Tahlia McGrath reveals why they remain at the top of the game.
A new Australian captain is set to be locked in this week as Meg Lanning continues her extended break away from the game.
There was drama at the T20 cricket final at the Commonwealth Games with Australia’s gun allrounder Tahlia McGrath testing positive to Covid but allowed to play despite India’s protests.
The Australian women’s cricket team is just one victory away from securing its place in Commonwealth Games history.
The Aussies will face New Zealand in the Commonwealth Games semi-finals this weekend, but most of us won’t be awake for it.
Tahlia McGrath’s mind-bogging purple patch has continued, with the Aussie boasting a batting average that rivals Sir Donald Bradman.
Australian leg-spinner Alana King has been cruelly denied an international hat-trick in Birmingham, and her captain is solely to blame.
Ash Gardner has steered Australia to a miraculous victory against India in its Commonwealth Games opener at Edgbaston.
There’s no better all-rounder in women’s cricket than Tahlia McGrath and her latest achievement proves it.
An Alana King-inspired Australia seemed set for victory over Pakistan – until the rain came.
The Australian cricket team is about to embark on a Commonwealth Games campaign, but don’t expect Ellyse Perry to make an appearance.
As Australia prepares to go for Commonwealth Games gold, captain Meg Lanning has put an Olympic medal on her agenda.
The WBBL08 fixture has dropped — but not every club will be happy. Plus, contract rumbles on a pair of English superstars. Could one be on the move? SEE THE FULL FIXTURE
Batter Mikayla Hinkley will continue to develop her role as a finisher with Brisbane Heat after signing a new deal. Check out who has been locked in for next season.
Former Australian cricketer Sarah Coyte is both a player and a coach at the Australian indoor championships. And there is no doubt in her mind which is the harder job.
Ben Sawyer had been in the running for the head coaching job with the Aussie women’s cricket team before New Zealand made its move.
The playing contracts for some of Australia’s elite female cricketers are worth just 10 per cent of their male counterparts. See the full sobering details here.
United Arab Emirates teenager Mahika Gaur has steamed through Nepal’s top order to help bowl out the opposition for eight.
ICC independent chair Greg Barclay has warned that women’s Test cricket might not be part of the sport’s landscape moving forward.
Injury-plagued Aussie quick Tayla Vlaeminck is leaving the Hobart Hurricanes to join the franchise with which she made her WBBL debut.
Shelley Nitschke has signed a contract extension with the Perth Scorchers but that won’t rule her out of the race to coach Australia.
The departure of long-time coach Matthew Mott isn’t about to slow down the success and momentum of a busy Australian women’s cricket team.
Sophie Molineux been overcome her Commonwealth Games dumping by becoming one of the first stars to ink a new deal for the next WBBL campaign.
NRLW players are hoping to cash in on bumper television ratings as the game’s female athletes push hard in the coming weeks for a better collective bargaining agreement deal.
A serious back injury nearly cost Ellyse Perry World Cup glory and is stopping her bowling.
Head coach Matthew Mott has left the Australian women’s side in what captain Meg Lanning has called a “huge” blow.
Late night shifts at an RSL club followed by long days at work have helped pave the way for this former teen star’s return to cricket form.
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