Zoe Jean Goss is an Australian former cricketer who played as an all-rounder,bowling right-arm medium-fast and batting right-handed. She appeared in 12 Test matches and 65 One Day Internationals for Australia between 1987 and 2000,including playing at four World Cups. She played domestic cricket for Western Australia and Victoria.
Ellyse Alexandra Perry is an Australian sportswoman who has represented her country in cricket and association football. Having debuted for both the national cricket team and the national soccer team at the age of 16,she is the youngest Australian to play international cricket and the first to have appeared in both ICC and FIFA World Cups. Gradually becoming a single-sport professional athlete from 2014 onward,Perry's acclaimed cricket career has continued to flourish and she is now widely considered to be one of the greatest female players ever.
Jessica Evelyn Duffin is an Australian sportswoman. In cricket,she has made 117 international appearances and won four world championships as a member of the Australian women's team. A right-handed batter with a reputation as a big game performer,Duffin was named Player of the Final in both the 2012 ICC Women's World Twenty20 and 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup tournaments. She also won the 2013 Belinda Clark Award for being adjudged Australia's best international women's cricketer over the previous year. Her domestic career has included playing for Victoria in the Women's National Cricket League and captaining the Melbourne Renegades in the Women's Big Bash League.
Meghann Moira Lanning is an Australian cricketer who currently captains the national women's team. Lanning has been a member of seven successful world championship campaigns,winning two Women's Cricket World Cup and five ICC Women's World Twenty20 titles. She holds the record for the most Women's One Day International centuries and is the first Australian to score 2,000 Twenty20 International runs.
Megan Schutt is an Australian cricketer who has played for the national team as a fast-medium bowler since 2012. Domestically,she plays for the South Australian Scorpions,for whom she debuted in 2009,and,since 2015,the Adelaide Strikers. She was the first cricketer to take a hat-trick for Australia in a Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) match.
Natasha Eleni Farrant is an English cricketer who currently plays for Kent,South East Stars,Oval Invincibles and England. She plays as a left-arm fast-medium bowler. She has previously played for Southern Vipers in the Women's Cricket Super League,as well as spending a season with Western Australia.
Bethany Louise Mooney is an Australian professional cricketer who plays for the national cricket team as a batter in all three formats of the game. At the domestic level,she plays as a wicket-keeper-batter for Western Australia and Perth Scorchers. In March 2020,at the conclusion of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup 2020,she became the world's number one batter in Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) cricket.
The Women's Big Bash League is the Australian women's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition. The WBBL replaced the Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup,which ran from the 2007–08 season through to 2014–15. The competition features eight city-based franchises,branded identically to the men's Big Bash League (BBL). Teams are made up of current and former Australian national team members,the country's best young talent,and up to three overseas marquee players.
The Melbourne Stars (WBBL) are an Australian women's Twenty20 cricket team based in St Kilda,Victoria. They are one of two teams from Melbourne to compete in the Women's Big Bash League,the other being the Melbourne Renegades. To date,the Stars' best performance occurred in WBBL|06 when they ended the regular season as minor premiers before ultimately finishing as runners-up.
The 2015–16 Women's Big Bash League season or WBBL|01 was the first season of the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL),the semi-professional women's Twenty20 domestic cricket competition in Australia. The tournament ran from 5 December 2015 to 24 January 2016.
Sophie Grace Molineux is an Australian cricketer from Bairnsdale,Victoria. A left-arm orthodox bowling all-rounder,Molineux has been a member of the national women's team since 2018. At domestic level,she currently plays for Victoria in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and captains the Melbourne Renegades in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL).
Alana Maria King is an Australian cricketer who plays for Western Australia in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and the Perth Scorchers in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). An all-rounder,she bowls right-arm leg spin and bats right-handed. She previously played for Victoria and Melbourne Stars. King is of Anglo-Indian descent,her parents both having emigrated from Chennai to Melbourne.
The 2019–20 Women's Big Bash League season or WBBL|05 was the fifth season of the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL),the semi-professional women's Twenty20 domestic cricket competition in Australia. The tournament moved to a standalone calendar slot,shifting away from the men's BBL,beginning on 18 October and running to 8 December 2019.
Hannah Joy Darlington is an Australian cricketer who made her debut for the national women's team in September 2021. A right-arm medium-pace bowler,Darlington is the current captain of the Sydney Thunder in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) and vice-captain of the New South Wales Breakers in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL). In 2021,she won the Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year award.
The 2019–20 Melbourne Stars Women's season was the fifth in the team's history. Coached by David Hemp and captained by Elyse Villani,they finished on the bottom of the WBBL|05 ladder. The Stars managed to win just two matches for the season,resulting in their first wooden spoon.
The 2018–19 Melbourne Stars Women's season was the fourth in the team's history. Coached by David Hemp and captained by Kristen Beams,they finished seventh in the regular season of WBBL|04 and failed to qualify for the finals.
Emma Louise Lamb is an English cricketer who plays for Lancashire Women,North West Thunder and Manchester Originals,and has previously played for Lancashire Thunder. Lamb is a batting all-rounder,and bowls off spin. She made her international debut for the England women's cricket team in September 2021.
Isabelle Eleanor Chih Ming Wong is an English cricketer who currently plays for Warwickshire,Central Sparks,Birmingham Phoenix,Mumbai Indians and England as a fast-medium bowler. She has previously played for Southern Vipers in the Women's Cricket Super League and Sydney Thunder in the Women's Big Bash League. She made her debut for England in June 2022.
Nicole Maria Faltum is an Australian cricketer who plays as a wicket-keeper and right-handed batter for Victoria in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and the Melbourne Stars in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). She played for the Stars in the final of the 2020–21 WBBL season,which they ultimately lost to the Sydney Thunder.
Evelyn Jones is an English cricketer who currently captains Central Sparks,as well as playing for Warwickshire,Birmingham Phoenix and Melbourne Renegades. She plays primarily as a left-handed opening batter,as well as bowling left-arm medium. She has previously played for Shropshire,Staffordshire and Lancashire,as well as for Loughborough Lightning and Lancashire Thunder in the Women's Cricket Super League and New Zealand side Canterbury Magicians.