Category Archives: Australia women’s cricket team

Tayla Vlaeminck returns as Australia thrash Bangladesh in opening T20

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  • Australia’s quickest bowler has been out more than two years
  • Legspinner Sophie Molineux also impresses

Tayla Vlaeminck celebrated her return to international cricket by taking with a wicket with her fourth ball, as Australia thrashed Bangladesh in their series-opening Twenty20 international.

Playing her first game for Australia since January 2022, the Victorian quick beat Sobhana Mostary for pace, splattering the stumps and finishing with 1-30 as Australia restricted Bangladesh to 4-126, before chasing the target down without loss and with seven overs to spare.

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Tahlia McGrath plays amid Covid drama as Australia win Games cricket gold

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  • All-rounder McGrath tests positive on morning of Edgbaston final
  • Australia win by nine runs to claim first women’s cricket gold

Australia’s all-conquering women’s cricket team continued their dominance of the sport after edging out India in the Commonwealth Games final at Edgbaston, but not before Covid-19 has served up a dose of drama.

Meg Lanning’s side secured a nine-run win to claim the first Commonwealth gold awarded to women in a tight match in which India threatened to pull off a remarkable run chase right to the death.

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Australia beat England to win Women’s Cricket World Cup –as it happened

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Alyssa Healy soars to the highest score ever in a World Cup final as Australia beat England by 71 runs to lift the trophy

4th over: Australia 11-0 (Alyssa Healy 5, Rachael Haynes 6)

It’s a bit of a cat and mouse game going on so far - the English bowlers are mostly bowling very good line and length and the Australian batters are just waiting on the opportunities for the slightly looser balls to pounce on. It’s a very good over from Shrubsole, just one from it.

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Bangladesh v Australia: ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup – live!

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*Local time. So half an hour to the coin toss if the rain stays away. It’ll be 43 overs per side. Promising.

The umpires are wandering around the middle in their fetching pink cagoules. It looks blustery so hopefully the rain blows on through. 4.08pm local time is the cut off to get a game in.

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Australia beat India by six wickets: ICC Women’s World Cup – as it happened

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Tournament favourites chase down a World Cup-record 278 for victory, their fifth out of five in this year’s event

4th over: India 15-1 (Yastika Bhatia 2, Shafali Verma 1)

Brown looks to make up for her ordinary first over and she does immediately, with the big wicket of Mandhana, bringing Yastika Bhatia to the crease. Bhatia uses the first ball to get her eye in, before a well run two off the next ball to get off the mark quickly. Brown gives away the first extra of the match with a wide, followed by a dot ball and then another wide. This has shades of Australia’s series against India late last year when they just couldn’t stop bowling wides. Hopefully Brown has got that out of her system now.

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Australia v West Indies: ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup – live!

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  • Updates from the fourth-round match at Basin Reserve
  • Play in Wellington starts at 11am local/9am AEDT/10pm GMT
  • Email James with any thoughts | Tweet @Jimbo_Cricket

Hello and welcome to the Basin Reserve in Wellington (by way of a sofa in South London) for this OBO of Australia v West Indies. This is the 14th match of what is proving to be a thrilling 2022 Women’s World Cup. The big question is, can anyone stop the Aussie juggernaut?

Meg Lanning’s side have swept away all comers in this format for the past few years and are three from three so far in the tournament, sitting satisfyingly atop the table whilst those below grapple it out.

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Australia crush New Zealand in Women’s World Cup walkover – as it happened

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  • Australia win by 141 runs in Wellington
  • Kiwis collapse to 35-5 while chasing 270

5th over: Australia 14-0 (Alyssa Healy 6, Rachael Haynes 8)

Jess Kerr is finding some beautiful length this over and Haynes is doing her best to dig the ball out, but hasn’t been able to get it past the field early in the over. Kerr maintains her line and length and finishes with a valuable maiden.

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