2017–18 Women's Ashes Series
The England women's cricket team toured Australia in October and November 2017 to play the Australia women's national cricket team to contest the The Women's Ashes, Women's Ashes. The teams played one Women's Test cricket, Test match, three Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs) and three Women's Twenty20 International, Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). The Women's Ashes were Australian women's cricket team in England and Ireland in 2015, held by Australia prior to the start of the series. Since 2013, the series has consisted of a Points system (cricket), multi-format series with points awarded for each of the matches. Two points was awarded for each WODI or WT20I win, four points to the Test winner, or two points to each team in the event of the Test being a draw. In August 2017, Australia's captain Meg Lanning announced that she would miss the series, after undergoing surgery on her shoulder. The following month, Rachael Haynes was named as her replacement. In Septemb ...
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Rachael Haynes
Rachael Louise Haynes (born 26 December, 1986) is an Australian former international cricketer who has won six world championships as a member of the national women's team. A left-handed batter, Haynes was vice-captain of Australia from 2017 to 2022. Domestically, she achieved prolonged success in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL), winning seven titles with New South Wales and two with the Sydney Thunder. Early life and education In her earliest backyard cricket memories, Haynes recalls using a bat carved from a fence paling while playing with her cousins and "always" watching matches on television, which led her to idolising Shane Warne before being inspired by Belinda Clark and Cathryn Fitzpatrick. Accepting an invitation from a next-door neighbour, Haynes joined North Balwyn Cricket Club at age eleven in her first formal experience with the sport. Soon after, she was lured to Box Hill Cricket Club and would go on to play at se ...
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