Women's World Cup 2017

Australia target 300 total in World Cup opener

Jun 26, 2017: Australia's captain Meg Lanning is targeting a total beyond 300 as the World Cup favourites commence their campaign against a familiar finals foe - West Indies

'More and more girls are hitting the ball hard from ball one'

Jun 20, 2017: Bigger shots, bigger scores, faster innings, faster bodies, more diving, more catching - today's women's cricketers tell us how the game has evolved

Australia news

Australia women united on revenue share - Lanning

Jun 8, 2017: Ahead of the team's departure for the World Cup in the UK, Meg Lanning said that Australia's female players shared the view that a fair deal for all cricketers was key to the resolution of the pay dispute

ICC Women's World Cup 2017

Australia eye record seventh World Cup title

May 29, 2017: Meg Lanning has achieved plenty in her career so far but over the next couple of months, captaining Australia to a Women's World Cup title is foremost on her list of goals

Father-son duos, and tenth-wicket stand heroics

Mar 21, 2017: Also, which players have the most half-centuries without ever having made a hundred?

New Zealand v Australia, 3rd women's ODI, Mount Maunganui

Lanning's record ton delivers series win for Australia

Mar 5, 2017: Playing her 57th ODI, Meg Lanning surpassed Charlotte Edwards on the list of most centuries in women's ODI and helped clinch the series against New Zealand 2-1

'If you hit anything square, mum wouldn't be happy'

Feb 24, 2017: Meg and Anna Lanning talk about backyard cricket, their idols growing up, and how the women's game has grown

Australia news

Smith, Lanning intervened in pay talks

Feb 15, 2017: Australia's captains Steven Smith and Meg Lanning jointly contacted Cricket Australia to ask that the board respect the Australian Cricketers Association as the players' collective bargaining agent

Australia news

Lanning, White claim domestic crowns

Jan 23, 2017: Meg Lanning was named the women's cricketer of the year and Cameron White won the men's domestic player of the year at Cricket Australia's annual awards function

Women's BBL 2016-17

There needs to be more women's cricket on TV

Jan 7, 2017: While there is great cricket in the Women's Big Bash League, networks and newspapers often have their staff elsewhere

Australia v South Africa, 3rd women's ODI, Sydney

Bolton, Lanning take Australia to series victory

Nov 23, 2016: Nicole Bolton and Meg Lanning scored unbeaten fifties to put on an unbroken 161-run stand for the second wicket to lead Australia to a nine-wicket win over South Africa in Sydney

Australia v South Africa, 2nd women's ODI, Canberra

Lanning 134, Perry 95* stroll Australia to 2-0 lead

Nov 20, 2016: Meg Lanning's 134 off 122 balls and Ellyse Perry's unbeaten 95 sank South Africa in a rain-hit game in Canberra as Australia marched to a 2-0 series lead

Women's cricket

Lanning 190 betters her own domestic record

Oct 30, 2016: Meg Lanning smacked 190 off 153 balls in the Women's National Cricket League to better her own record of the highest individual score in women's domestic cricket in Australia

Women's cricket

Final squads announced for Women's Super League

Apr 21, 2016: The finalised squads for the inaugural Women's Super League have been announced by the England & Wales Cricket Board

Women's Super League news

Lanning, Taylor, Bates among WSL overseas stars

Apr 14, 2016: Many of the leading players in the women's game have been confirmed as participants in this summer's inaugural Women's Super League

Should sportspersons love to win or hate to lose?

Apr 6, 2016: And a singalong chant for the England team

Australia v West Indies, Women's World T20, final, Kolkata

'We need to keep improving to stay on top' - Lanning

Apr 3, 2016: Australia Women's captain Meg Lanning said after her side's eight-wicket loss in the Women's World T20 final that other teams were catching up and even going past them

Australia v West Indies, Women's World T20, final, Kolkata

West Indies Women gun down 149 for maiden WT20 title

Apr 3, 2016: West Indies Women converted their maiden appearance in a World Twenty20 final into a historic victory at Eden Gardens, beating three-time defending champions Australia Women for the first time in a T20 international

Australia v England, Women's World T20, 1st semi-final, Delhi

Australia Women surge into fourth straight final

Mar 30, 2016: Australia entered their fourth straight final of the Women's World T20 with a five-run win over England in Delhi

England v Australia, Women's World T20, Semi-final, Delhi

Much more at stake than bragging rights

Mar 29, 2016: The Women's World T20 has been far from ideal but the semi-finals provide a chance to put on a much-needed spectacle