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The Sydney Sixers did not appear to have made enough, but they fielded like demons and bowled in miserly fashion to beat the Perth Scorchers by seven runs

The Sydney Sixers and the Perth Scorchers, the top two teams from the league stages of the second Women's Big Bash League, etched out dominant wins in the semi-finals

Julie Hunter, who was part of two World T20 winning squads - in 2012 and 2014 - and the victorious World Cup winning team of 2013, had retired from ODIs in October last year

Stand-in captain Alyssa Healy's 77 was the backbone of the Sydney Sixers' match-winning total of 169, with supporting roles from Sara McGlashan, Marizanne Kapp and Ashleigh Gardner

The Scorchers avoided a repeat of last year's semi-final to chase down a modest 124 and storm into the final

A look back at the week that was in the WBBL, ahead of the week that will be the final leg of the tournament

The Sydney Thunder and the Sydney Sixers could not be separated on runs even after the Super Over. So it all came down to the boundary aggregate

Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana will be withdrawn from the WBBL before the competition has finished, in order to participate in a training camp ahead of their 2017 World Cup qualification tournament

Melbourne Stars ended their run of four straight defeats by beating Adelaide Strikers in a low-quality game at the MCG, despite losing their captain Meg Lanning to injury shortly before the game began

Considering their bowlers had limited Perth Scorchers to only 129, even a mid-innings wobble did not prevent Sydney Sixers from winning their sixth match on the trot

Renegades won their second-consecutive match against their local rivals as they beat Stars by five wickets with three balls to spare

Lauren Winfield, the England opening batsman, has cut short her holiday in Australia to replace Deandra Dottin in Brisbane Heat's WBBL squad.

Katherine Brunt dented Strikers early in their innings and Heather Graham follow up her two wickets with a brisk unbeaten 27 to take Scorchers to an easy victory against the Strikers

Suzie Bates was out hit wicket for 1, but contributed in the field and with the ball to send the Renegades crashing to their sixth loss

Despite sustaining multiple cheek fractures, West Indies allrounder Deandra Dottin said "all is going to be fine"

India Women's opener Smriti Mandhana has signed a one-year deal with Brisbane Heat for the second edition of the Women's Big Bash League, the franchise announced on Tuesday

Harmanpreet Kaur became the first India Women's cricketer to be signed by an overseas Twenty20 franchise after inking a deal with WBBL champions Sydney Thunder for the 2016-17 season

The Women's Big Bash League 2016-17 kicks off with a "carnival weekend" in Sydney on December 10 and 11 with six matches, of which four will be telecast on free-to-air television