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Sophie Molineux’s Melbourne Renegades are in the WBBL final.

This star cricketer couldn’t play for Australia for more than 850 days. On Sunday, she can become a champion again

Melbourne Renegades WBBL star Sophie Molineux has had plenty of career highlights, but it’s been far from plain sailing lately as injuries struck her down.

  • Scott Spits

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Annabel Sutherland iced the game in the final over as Australia beat India at the T20 World Cup.

‘How’s your heart rate’: Four wickets in last over seals Aussie win after injury crisis

Australia’s resilience was on full display as they shrugged off the losses of captain Alyssa Healy and pace bowler Tayla Vlaeminck to take down India in Sharjah and progress unbeaten to the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals

  • Daniel Brettig
Australia’s Tayla Vlaeminck is tended to by team medicos after her injury.

Australia’s cricket World Cup defence rocked by twin injuries

Australia’s Twenty20 World Cup defence has been rocked by potentially tournament-ending injuries to inspirational captain Alyssa Healy and pace ace Tayla Vlaeminck.

  • Andrew Wu and Ian Chadband
Megan Schutt celebrates with teammate Alyssa Healy after dismissing Georgia Plimmer.

Skittled Kiwis lose 9-34 as Australia’s record-breaker Schutt wreaks havoc

Megan Schutt became the highest wicket taker in T20 World Cup history with a devastating spell.

  • Daniel Brettig
Phoebe Litchfield takes a blinder.

How musical theatre helped produce Australian cricket’s brightest young star

Phoebe Litchfield loves the stage. She takes blinding catches and commentates on her own shots.

  • Daniel Brettig
Top honour: Aussie bowler Jess Jonassen was named player of the series.

The surprise omission from Australia’s T20 World Cup squad

Alyssa Healy and Ellyse Perry and Beth Mooney headline the 15-strong Australian squad for the Women’s T20 World Cup - but there was one notable absentee.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo and Billie Eder
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Meg Lanning and Ashleigh Gardner celebrate winning the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.

Australia’s greatest sporting team? Lanning’s ‘Megastars’ are in the conversation

In the World Cup final, Australia kept South Africa where they’ve kept the world for a decade: at arm’s length. All that remains for this extraordinary, pioneering team is to be beaten.

  • Greg Baum
Meg Lanning lifts the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup.

Mooney on fire as Australia beat South Africa to win the T20 World Cup

An unbeaten 74 from Beth Mooney helped Australia set South Africa 157 to win the T20 World Cup – a score the home side was unable to achieve.

  • Annesha Ghosh
Ellyse Perry celebrates victory in the World Cup final in Christchurch.

‘Every ball has its own possibility’: The reinvention of Ellyse Perry

When Ellyse Perry returned to the Australian T20 side in 2021, more than a year after tearing her hamstring during the home T20 World Cup, it appeared the shortest form of the game had left her behind.

  • Melinda Farrell
Peninsula Cricket Club all girls Woolworths Blast at Warriewood Valley Sportsground; some of the 20,000 registered female cricketers in Australia aged between five and 12.

‘Massive leap’: Girls set registration record as women make T20 World Cup final

Australia’s march into another World Cup final coincides with unprecedented numbers of girls playing cricket.

  • Malcolm Conn

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