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Women's World Cup 2009

Sampson retires from cricket at 23

Mar 22, 2009: Australia's opening bowler Emma Sampson has shocked the cricket world by retiring at the age of 23

Emma Sampson

The might of Sampson

Mar 6, 2009: One of the world's fastest women bowlers is raring to get going at her first World Cup

New Zealand v Australia, Rose Bowl, 4th ODI, Hamilton

Ebsary and Poulton level series for Australia

Feb 8, 2009: Australia levelled the Rose Bowl Series after four matches when their third-highest total in history ensured a satisfying 44-run victory in Hamilton

New Zealand v Australia, Rose Bowl, 1st ODI, Whangarei

Satterthwaite saves New Zealand with match-winning 49

Feb 1, 2009: New Zealand struck first in the five-match Rose Bowl Series with a tight two-wicket success over Australia in Whangarei

Australia v India, 1st women's ODI, Sydney

Sthalekar and Blackwell star in easy win

Oct 31, 2008: Australia women's young fast bowlers had India on the mat in the first ODI that the hosts won comfortably by eight wickets at Hurstville Oval in Sydney. Alex Blackwell and Lisa Sthalekar scored half-centuries in chasing the modest 184

Girls gone wild, girls on guard duty

Jul 21, 2008: Napier gets a call from Elton John, Queensland players get PlayStations, and a chauvinist gets put in his place

New Zealand v Australia, 4th women's ODI, Lincoln

Sampson and Sthalekar keep series alive

Mar 15, 2008: Emma Sampson's five-wicket haul put Australia on track for a tight success that sent the Rose Bowl to a deciding fifth game in Lincoln on Sunday

New South Wales v South Australia, SCG

State final will be no picnic

Jan 10, 2008: A preview of the women's state final

Women's National Cricket League

Scorpions double stings Fury

Dec 23, 2007: South Australia did the double in the weekend before Christmas, as did New South Wales who are unbeaten this season

Australia v New Zealand, Women's Twenty20, Darwin

Three debutants in Australia's Twenty20 team

Jul 19, 2007: Kris Britt, Emma Sampson and Clea Smith have been included in Australia's team for their Twenty20 match against the New Zealand women at Darwin

Cathryn Fitzpatrick interview

How do you solve a problem like Cathryn?

May 14, 2007: Interview with Cathryn Fitzpatrick

Australia choose youth over experience

Six changes to women's squad

Apr 4, 2007: Australia have signalled their intention to focus on the 2009 World Cup, with five new faces included in the women's squad for 2007-08

Sampson in line for debut

Australia name women's squad for India tour

Jan 29, 2007: The uncapped Emma Sampson has received her first call-up to the Australia team for the four-nation one-day tournament starting in India next month

Media Release

13-player Australian squad named to take on New Zealand

Jan 19, 2004: Cricket Australia today announced that the women's national selection panel has chosen a 13-player squad to take on New Zealand in the first leg of the six-match Rose Bowl series beginning in Auckland on 11 February

ACB announces Commonwealth Bank Shooting Stars team to play England

Jan 21, 2003: The Australian Cricket Board (ACB) today announced the Australian women's youth team, the Commonwealth Bank Shooting Stars, to play England in a two-day match at Allan Border Field in Queensland next month (12-13 February).