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.
Sarah Jane Cady is an Australian cricketer from Camden,New South Wales. A right-arm medium fast bowler,Coyte has taken a total of 100 wickets for the national women's team across Tests,ODIs and T20Is. She currently plays for the Melbourne Renegades in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL).
Hayley Kristen Matthews is a Barbadian sportswoman. She plays international cricket for the West Indies as an all-rounder,batting right-handed and bowling right-arm off break. She plays domestic cricket for Barbados,Barbados Royals and Melbourne Renegades,and has previously played for Tasmania,Lancashire Thunder,Southern Vipers,Loughborough Lightning,Velocity and Hobart Hurricanes. She has also represented Barbados in the javelin throw at several international track and field competitions. In June 2022,Matthews was named as the captain of the West Indies women's cricket team,taking over from Stafanie Taylor.
The Melbourne Renegades (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 Stars.
The Hobart Hurricanes (WBBL) are a women's Twenty20 cricket team based in Bellerive,Tasmania. They compete in the Women's Big Bash League.
Naomi Elizabeth Stalenberg is an Australian cricketer who plays as a right-handed batter and right-arm medium bowler. She represented New South Wales in domestic cricket beginning in 2013,and in 2016 she played a Twenty20 International (T20I) for the Australian national cricket team. In 2020 she was cut from New South Wales' squad and began playing for Tasmania. She has also played in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) for the Sydney Thunder and the Hobart Hurricanes.
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).
Ashleigh Katherine Gardner is an Australian cricketer who currently plays for the national women's team as an all-rounder. A right-handed batter and right-arm off spinner,Gardner also plays for New South Wales in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL),for the Sydney Sixers in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) and for the Gujarat Giants in the Women's Premier League (WPL). She has won three world championships and four national titles with her respective teams,while also gaining numerous individual honours,including the Belinda Clark Award.
Courtney Anne Webb is a cricketer and Australian rules footballer from Launceston,Tasmania. A right-handed batter and right-arm medium-pace bowler,Webb currently plays for South Australia in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and for the Melbourne Renegades in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL).
Maitlan Joy Brown is an Australian cricketer. She plays as a right-arm fast bowler and right-handed batter for the New South Wales Breakers in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL),and for the Sydney Sixers in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL).
Josephine Erin Dooley is an Australian cricketer who plays for the South Australian Scorpions in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL). A right-handed wicket-keeper-batter,Dooley also plays for the Melbourne Renegades in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL).
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 2018–19 Sydney Sixers Women's season was the fourth in the team's history. Coached by Ben Sawyer,they finished the regular season of WBBL|04 on top of the ladder to claim their third-consecutive minor premiership while captain Ellyse Perry set a new Women's Big Bash League record for most runs in a single campaign and was named Player of the Tournament.
The 2020–21 Women's Big Bash League season or WBBL|06 was the sixth season of the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL),the semi-professional women's Twenty20 domestic cricket competition in Australia. The tournament took place from 25 October to 28 November 2020. It was played entirely in Sydney due to ongoing state border restrictions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2020–21 Melbourne Renegades Women's season was the sixth in the team's history. Coached by Lachlan Stevens and captained by Amy Satterthwaite,the Renegades played the entirety of WBBL|06 in a bio-secure Sydney hub due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Suffering from a slew of fitness concerns throughout the tournament,it was the team's first campaign in which their performance on the points table did not improve from the previous year. The Renegades consequently finished the regular season in seventh place and failed to qualify for the finals.
The 2020–21 Sydney Sixers Women's season was the sixth in the team's history. Coached by Ben Sawyer and captained by Ellyse Perry,the Sixers played the entirety of WBBL|06 in a bio-secure Sydney hub due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They finished the regular season in fifth place on the points table,directly below the Perth Scorchers due to an inferior net run rate. Consequently,the Sixers narrowly missed out on qualifying for the finals for the second-straight year.
The 2022–23 Sydney Sixers Women's season was the eighth in the team's history. Coached by Charlotte Edwards and captained by Ellyse Perry,the Sixers finished the regular season of WBBL|08 in first position and set a new league record with eleven wins. They consequently qualified for their fifth Final appearance,returning to the knockout phase of the tournament for the first time since WBBL|04. In the championship decider,held at North Sydney Oval,the Sixers were defeated in an upset by the Adelaide Strikers.
The 2022–23 Hobart Hurricanes Women's season was the eighth in the team's history. Coached by Dan Marsh and captained by Elyse Villani,the Hurricanes finished the regular season of WBBL|08 in fourth place and qualified for the finals for the first time since WBBL|02. They were eliminated from the knockout phase of the tournament,losing to the Brisbane Heat in the Eliminator.
