‘Fine line’: Aussie cricket star’s secret weapon
She already holds the position of Australian women’s cricket team captain, but Alyssa Healy says watching the game has taught her just as much as playing it.
She already holds the position of Australian women’s cricket team captain, but Alyssa Healy says watching the game has taught her just as much as playing it.
Australia will play three ODIs against New Zealand over just five days and may not have the captain for all of them.
After making a century in just her second ODI, the good news keeps coming for a rising Australian batting star.
Australia’s women’s cricketers have responded in style to their shock T20 World Cup semi-final loss to South Africa.
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.
A stunning half-century from Phoebe Litchfield has guided Australia out of danger and to victory against New Zealand in the first T20I in Mackay. It came after star Ash Gardner was ruled out after a freak accident just minutes before the toss.
A former Sri Lankan Test cricketer has been banned by Cricket Australia for 20 years for inappropriate behaviour towards a female cricketer.
Mackay will be the host for an historic rivalry to reignite, as the Australian and New Zealand women’s cricket teams battle it out in a pair of T20s. Read what both captains had to say.
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