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| Nickname(s) | Southern Stars (Until 2017) | |||||||||
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| Association | Cricket Australia | |||||||||
| Personnel | ||||||||||
| Captain | Alyssa Healy | |||||||||
| Coach | Shelley Nitschke | |||||||||
| History | ||||||||||
| Test status acquired | 1934 | |||||||||
| International Cricket Council | ||||||||||
| ICC status | Full member (1909) | |||||||||
| ICC region | East Asia-Pacific | |||||||||
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| Women's Tests | ||||||||||
| First WTest | v  England at Brisbane Exhibition Ground, Brisbane; 28–31 December 1934 | |||||||||
| Last WTest | v  South Africa at WACA Ground, Perth; 15–17 February 2024 | |||||||||
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| Women's One Day Internationals | ||||||||||
| First WODI | v Young England at Dean Park Cricket Ground, Bournemouth; 23 June 1973 | |||||||||
| Last WODI | v  Bangladesh at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur; 27 March 2024 | |||||||||
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| Women's World Cup appearances | 12 (first in 1973) | |||||||||
| Best result | Champions (1978, 1982, 1988, 1997, 2005, 2013, 2022) | |||||||||
| Women's Twenty20 Internationals | ||||||||||
| First WT20I | v England at County Ground, Taunton; 2 September 2005 | |||||||||
| Last WT20I | v South Africa at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai; 17 October 2024 | |||||||||
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| Women's T20 World Cup appearances | 9 (first in 2009) | |||||||||
| Best result | Champions (2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2023) | |||||||||
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| As of 17 October 2024 | ||||||||||
The Australian women's national cricket team (formerly also known as the Southern Stars) represent Australia in international women's cricket. Currently captained by Alyssa Healy[8] and coached by Shelley Nitschke,[9] they are the top team in all world rankings assigned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the women's game.[10]
Australia played their first Test match in 1934–35 against England. The two teams now compete biennially for the Women's Ashes. A rich history with New Zealand stretches back almost as far while strong rivalries have also developed more recently with India and the West Indies, manifesting predominantly via limited overs cricket. In the 50-over format of the game, Australia have won more World Cups than all other teams combined—capturing the 1978, 1982, 1988, 1997, 2005, 2013 and 2022 titles. They have achieved similarly emphatic success in Twenty20 cricket by winning the ICC Women's T20 World Cup in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020 and 2023.
In 2003, Women's Cricket Australia (WCA) and the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) merged to form a single governing body, known as Cricket Australia (CA), which remains to this day. CA has expressed a major goal of the organisation is for cricket to be Australia's leading sport for women and girls, citing the performance and exposure of the national team—which is heavily dependent on its increasingly professional domestic structures, namely the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL)—as a key factor to achieving such an aspiration.[11]
A survey conducted by TrueNorth Research in April 2020 showed the national women's cricket team have the strongest emotional connection with Australian sports fans.[12][13]
- ^ "ICC Rankings". International Cricket Council.
- ^ "Women's Test matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "Women's Test matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "WODI matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "WODI matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "WT20I matches - Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "WT20I matches - 2024 Team records". ESPNcricinfo.
- ^ "Alyssa Healy named new Australia cricket captain across all three formats". The Guardian. Australian Associated Press. 9 December 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
- ^ "Australia confirm Nitschke as Mott's full-time successor". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- ^ "ICC overview of Player Rankings International Cricket Council". www.icc-cricket.com. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "Progress reaches new heights for women and girls in cricket". www.cricketaustralia.com.au. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ Proszenko, Adrian (16 June 2020). "Women's teams win battle for Australian hearts". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "Australia Women's Cricket Team Rules All In Emotional Connection Ranking". Ministry of Sport. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.