Cricket News

South Africa Women made a strong start to the five-match ODI series on their tour of Bangladesh with an 86-run win in Cox's Bazar

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

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

The 14-member squad will be playing in the Women's World Cup qualifier matches in Colombo scheduled from February 7 to February 21

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

Australia's workplace oversight body, the FairWork Ombudsman, has queried Cricket Australia's contract clauses around female players

Sarah Taylor, who is currently taking an indefinite break from cricket, has been awarded one of the ECB's new two-year contracts as England's women players earn enhanced deals

James Sutherland has stated that pregnancy policies around women cricketers will be addressed in the current round of MOU negotiations with the ACA

New Zealand women captain Suzie Bates won the ICC Women's ODI Player-of-the-Year award for the second time and the T20I award for the first time

India women's bowling strength came to the fore as they beat Pakistan by 17 runs after Mithali Raj's unbeaten half-century to win the Asia Cup final

New South Wales Women continued their dominance of the WNCL as they clinched their 18th title in the competition's 21-season history

A lot of drama unfolded in Coffs Harbour where Australia and South Africa played out only the fifth tie in the history of women's ODIs

Kristen Beams will look to return to cricket for the Melbourne Stars in the Women's BBL, after being ruled out of action with a finger fracture

Former Australia women's captain Karen Rolton was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame in a ceremony during the tea break on the opening day of the Adelaide Test

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

The ICC's technical committee has awarded full points to Pakistan women for the three-match series against India women that was not played in October

Sri Lanka Cricket's newly appointed women's team head coach Hemantha Devapriya is confident that the team will improve despite suffering their second successive series whitewash in the recently-concluded series against England

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

Deandra Dottin pitched in with another all-round performance as West Indies women sealed the T20 series against India women with a 31-run win in the second match