Multi-sport teenage star set for WBBL debut
She may be just 15 but Caoimhe Bray is following in the footsteps of Elysse Perry by combining an elite football career with the Junior Matildas with WBBL stardom.
She may be just 15 but Caoimhe Bray is following in the footsteps of Elysse Perry by combining an elite football career with the Junior Matildas with WBBL stardom.
Six of Brisbane Heat’s squad who made the WBBL Final last season have departed, including super star Amelia Kerr to arch rival Sydney Sixers, but Grace Harris is not concerned and backs the talent coming through to get the job done.
Australia’s budding superstar Phoebe Litchfield is confident the national team is still the best in the world despite failing to defend their T20 World Cup title.
They call her Shikhapedia but she once had to seek out someone who knew even more about the game to save her career. ROBERT CRADDOCK speaks to Brisbane Heat WBBL recruit Shikha Pandey.
All eyes will be on the pace duo of Tayla Vlaeminck and Darcie Brown, who have been named in the same World Cup squad for the first time, but it’s Australia’s spinners who are set to be the envy of the competition.
The extra challenge of the elements in the United Arab Emirates demanded Australia go to extra lengths to prepare for their tilt at a fourth-straight T20 World Cup.
Sophie Molineux had visions of winning 18 World Cups before she retired. Injuries buried that plan before it got off the ground. But now she’s back – and armed with some inside info from Glenn Maxwell.
Cricket Australia is pulling out all the stops in its attempt to find a successor to CEO Nick Hockley, though one hopeful seems to be the standout candidate.
Australia has won the past three T20 World Cups with Meg Lanning in charge and the new skipper is ready to make her mark as they go for number four.
All-rounders are like gold in T20 cricket and among Australia’s list of them at the World Cup is a world class youngster showing what she can do.
When she had to drive her dog to the park and let it run around for exercise because she couldn’t even walk, the T20 World Cup seemed a long way away for Darcie Brown.
Australia easily won its first warm-up game in the UAE, but a pair of explosive batters are in doubt for the start of the T20 World Cup.
The Australian Women’s Cricket team has once again shown why they’re the side to beat at the upcoming ICC WT20 World Cup.
Injuries from vigorous ball games in the warm-up aren’t new to international cricket, but the latest one has been enough to cause a change.
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