Renegades rise to the top to claim inaugural title
MELBOURNE Renegades have won their first Women’s Big Bash League title, defeating the Brisbane Heat by seven runs in today’s rain interrupted final. Despite not making the best of scores with the bat, the Renegades gave an exceptional fielding performance to take home the title. Player of the Final honours went to Hayley Matthews, who […]
Heat book second consecutive final after Thunder collapse
SYDNEY Thunder were outclassed in the batting stakes by Brisbane Heat to ensure they would lineup in their second consecutive WBBL final. Facing the Renegades in Melbourne on Sunday, the Heat have now won six games in a row, setting up a tantalising match-up. Winning the match by nine wickets, the victory was set up […]
Young gun stuns, as her Heat best the Stars
In a tournament that has seen some of the best up-and-coming young talent, it’s Brisbane Heat bowler Lucy Hamilton that was the headlining act in Sunday’s action. She claimed 5/8 against the Melbourne Stars, a spell which included the wickets of Yastika Bhatia, Annabel Sutherland, Meg Lanning, Tess Flintoff and Deepti Sharma. Taking five of […]
Heat too strong again, remain undefeated to begin campaign
THE BRISBANE Heat have made it two wins from as many matches to kick off their WBBL10 campaign after defeating the Melbourne Renegades by 28 runs. Brisbane made 8/169 from its 20 overs, before restricting the Renegades to 9/141 from their 20 overs. Things did not go to plan early for the Heat, with the […]
Triple treat at Spring Challenge as Hurricanes, Heat and Thunder all win
THERE was a triple delight of matches yesterday at the T20 Spring Challenge, with the Hurricanes, Heat and Thunder all picking up a win. Hobart hustles to win over Meteors Hobart Hurricanes (7/126) defeated ACT Meteors (7/122) Hobart has jumped to second on the Spring Challenge ladder after a three wicket win over the ACT […]
NSW Breaks Queensland to put out the Fire again
FOR THE second time in three days New South Wales has defeated Queensland, this time by two wickets. After bowling Queensland out for 216, the Breakers cut it fine but reached the target with 21 balls to spare in their innings. There were some sizeable partnerships in the Queensland partnership, but nothing that really stood […]
NSW put out the Fire to cause upset
NEW South Wales has made a perfect start to its 2024/25 WNCL campaign with a four-wicket win over Queensland yesterday. Queensland made 9/266 off its 50 overs, before NSW reached the target with exactly two overs to spare. The Fire had a rough start to their innings, falling to 2/34 inside the first seven and […]
Australia has A-plus finish to historic tour
AUSTRALIA’S Women’s A side wrapped up their series with their Indian counterparts with a 45-run win in the sole four day match of the series. Australia batted first and initially made 212 in their first innings. Much of Australia’s score in the first innings came off the bat of Georgia Voll, whose 71 at the […]
Darke’s day out ensures smooth run for Aussies
AUSTRALIA’s women’s A side just can’t stop winning, this time defeating India A by eight wickets in the second ODI of their series. India was bowled out for 218 with two overs left in their innings before Australia reached that target with just over 10 overs to spare. India got off to a far from […]
Marvelous Maitlan and Mack help Aussies keep on winning
AUSTRALIA has kept its winning run going, winning the first one dayer of it’s a series with India by four wickets. After India posted 9/249, Australia reached the target with three overs to spare. India’s innings got off to a fiery but ultimately costly start, as they found themselves 1/7 after three balls, and then […]