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2017–18 Women's National Cricket League Season
The 2017–18 Women's National Cricket League season was the 22nd season of the Women's National Cricket League, the women's domestic limited overs cricket competition in Australia. The tournament started on 6 October 2017 and finished on 24 February 2018. Defending champions New South Wales Breakers won the tournament for the 19th time after topping the ladder and beating Western Fury in the final. Ladder Fixtures Round 1 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Round 2 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Round 3 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- Final ---- ---- Statistics Highest totals Most runs Most wickets References Notes Bibliography * * * * * * * External links WNCL 2017–18 on cricket.com.auSeries home at ESPNcricinfo {{DEFAULTSORT:2017-18 Women's National Cricket League season Women's National Cricket League seasons Women's National Cricket League The Women's National Cricket League (WNCL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket Australia
Cricket Australia (CA), formerly known as the Australian Cricket Board (ACB), is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia. It was originally formed in 1905 as the 'Australian Board of Control for International Cricket'. It is incorporated as an Australian Public Company, limited by guarantee. Cricket Australia operates all of the Australian national representative cricket sides, including the Men's, the Women's and Youth sides. CA is also responsible for organising and hosting Test tours and one day internationals with other nations, and scheduling the home international fixtures. Background Cricket Australia is an administrative organisation responsible for cricket in Australia. Cricket Australia has six member organisations that represent each of the Australian states. These organisations are: * New South Wales – Cricket NSW * Queensland – Queensland Cricket * South Australia – South Australian Cricket Association * Tasmania – Cricket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elyse Villani
Elyse Jayne Villani (born 6 October 1989) is an Australian cricketer who played for the Australia national women's team from 2009 to 2019. She has also played domestic cricket for various teams in both the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). Cricket career Villani began playing domestic cricket for Victoria. She played for the Australia under-21 side in 2008. This team beat the senior Australian team in January 2008 in a match where Villani scored 85 runs from 78 balls, then came within 6 runs of defeating them again in October 2008. She was one of six members of the under-21 team to be named in Australia's 30-player preliminary squad for the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup, but she was not in the final squad for the tournament. Villani made her international cricket debut for Australia in 2009 in a Women's Twenty20 International against New Zealand. She was part of the Victorian team that won the inaugural Australian Women's Twenty20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Bolton
Nicole Elizabeth Bolton is an Australian cricketer who plays as a left-handed batter and right-arm off break bowler for Australia and Sydney Sixers. Early life and education Bolton was born in Subiaco, an inner western suburb of Perth, where she was raised and has lived most of her life. Between 1993 and 2003, she went to school at Newman College, Perth, and from 2003 to 2006 she attended Methodist Ladies' College in the Perth suburb of Claremont. As a young child, Bolton played cricket with her brothers in the back yard of the family home. However, she did not take up the game seriously until she was 15 years old, when she started playing for MLC in an organised competition. She also played at junior level for the Subiaco Marist Cricket Club. From 2008 to 2011, Bolton studied for a Bachelor of Event, Sport and Recreation Management at Edith Cowan University. In 2016, she completed a Graduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning, Education, at Charles Darwin University. Caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Graham (cricketer)
Heather Louise Graham (born 5 October 1996) is an Australian cricketer who plays for Tasmanian Tigers (women's cricket), Tasmania, Hobart Hurricanes (WBBL), Hobart Hurricanes, Northern Superchargers and Mumbai Indians (WPL), Mumbai Indians. Domestic career In November 2018, she was named in the Perth Scorchers (WBBL), Perth Scorchers' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season. In April 2019, Cricket Australia awarded her with a contract with the National Performance Squad ahead of the 2019–20 season. In 2020, Graham moved to the Tasmanian Tigers (women's cricket), Tasmanian Tigers so she could spend more time with her partner, all-rounder Emily Smith (cricketer), Emily Smith, who had moved to Tasmania in the previous season. In 2021, she was drafted by Trent Rockets for the 2021 season of The Hundred, inaugural season of The Hundred (cricket), The Hundred. In November 2021, Graham reached 2 milestones in the Women's Big Bash League, during the same game against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgia Redmayne
Georgia Prue Redmayne (born 8 December 1993) is an Australian cricketer who plays as a wicket-keeper-batter for Queensland Fire and Brisbane Heat. She has also previously played for Worcestershire, New South Wales Breakers, Tasmania, Hobart Hurricanes, Perth Scorchers and Welsh Fire. Early life Born in Lismore, New South Wales, and raised in nearby Alstonville, Redmayne was the youngest of three children, and became a cricketer at an early age. She played backyard cricket against her elder brother, and her dentist father was a local coach who encouraged girls to play for boys' teams. In February 2005, she caused a stir when she took a double hat-trick (four wickets in four deliveries) for the Alstonville Maroon Under-12s. By then, she had already represented North Coast PSSA cricket team in two State carnivals; she later played NSW State underage cricket in the Under-15s, Under-17s, and Under-18s. While a student at Alstonville High School, Redmayne played for Combined High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canberra
Canberra ( ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory at the northern tip of the Australian Alps, the country's highest mountain range. As of June 2021, Canberra's estimated population was 453,558. The area chosen for the capital had been inhabited by Indigenous Australians for up to 21,000 years, with the principal group being the Ngunnawal people. European settlement commenced in the first half of the 19th century, as evidenced by surviving landmarks such as St John's Anglican Church and Blundells Cottage. On 1 January 1901, federation of the colonies of Australia was achieved. Following a long dispute over whether Sydney or Melbourne should be the national capital, a compromise was reached: the new capital would be buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuka Oval
Manuka Oval is a sporting venue in Canberra, the capital of Australia. It is located in Griffith, in the area of that suburb known as Manuka. Manuka Oval has a seating capacity of 13,550 people and an overall capacity of 16,000 people, although this is lower for some sports depending on the configuration used. The area on which the ground is situated has been used for sport since the early 20th century, but was only enclosed in 1929. It has since undergone several redevelopments, most recently beginning in 2011. Currently, Manuka Oval is primarily used for cricket (during the summer months) and Australian rules football (during the winter months). The ground was previously also used for rugby league and rugby union matches, but there are now more suitable venues in Canberra for those sports. As a cricket ground, Manuka Oval is the home venue for the ACT Comets (men's) and the ACT Meteors (women's) teams, and has also hosted a number of international matches, including at the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Molineux
Sophie Grace Molineux (born 17 January 1998) is an Australian cricketer from Bairnsdale, Victoria. A left-arm orthodox bowling all-rounder, Molineux has been a member of the national women's team since 2018. At domestic level, she currently plays for Victoria in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and captains the Melbourne Renegades in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). Early life and education Born in the eastern- Victorian town of Bairnsdale, Molineux has been involved in cricket since early childhood, sharing a passion for the game with her father Mark. At age ten, she was talent-spotted by former Australian coach John Harmer, who was soon thereafter engaged as her private mentor. She achieved numerous feats in her junior years, such as taking a hat-trick while playing for Gippsland during the 2013–14 Under-18 state championship, and successfully captaining Victoria at the 2015–16 Under-18 national championships. Molineux went on to join Victorian Premier Crick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alana King
Alana Maria King (born 22 November 1995) is an Australian international cricketer. She also plays domestic cricket for Western Australia in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and the Perth Scorchers in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL). An all-rounder, she bowls right-arm leg spin and bats right-handed. She previously played for Victoria and Melbourne Stars. Early life King was born in Clarinda, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. She is of Anglo-Indian descent, her parents both having emigrated from Chennai (the capital of Tamil Nadu, India) to Melbourne. King followed her brother's footsteps by pursuing an interest in cricket after trying out different sports such as tennis, softball and baseball. Tennis was her first sport of choice as she took up the tennis racquet at the age of five and competed in the Tennis Victoria Pennant which was the largest tennis inter-club representative competition in Australia. She also served as a ball kid during the women's singles fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dane Van Niekerk
Dané van Niekerk ( , ; born 14 May 1993) is a South African cricketer born in Pretoria and educated at Hoërskool Centurion. leg spin bowler, she has appearances in Test, One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) representing South Africa and is the women's team captain in all three forms (Test, ODI and T20I) since June 2016. She was the first bowler for South Africa to take 100 wickets in WODIs. Domestic and T20 career She played domestically for Highveld Women and Northerns Women before becoming one of the first two South African females (along with Marizanne Kapp) to be included in the Eastern Province cricket team academy (men's team). In 2015, she took part of the inaugural season of the Australian Women's Big Bash League playing for the Melbourne Renegades. In November 2018, she was named in the Sydney Sixers' squad for the 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season. In September 2019, she was named in the Devnarain XI squad for the inaugural edition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Traditional Owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna people. The area of the city centre and surrounding parklands is called ' in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Queen Adelaide, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for the only freely-settled British province in Australia. Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Oval
Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the city centre and North Adelaide. The venue is predominantly used for cricket and Australian rules football, but has also played host to rugby league, rugby union, soccer, tennis among other sports as well as regularly being used to hold concerts. Austadiums.com described Adelaide Oval as being "one of the most picturesque Test cricket grounds in Australia, if not the world." After the completion of the ground's most recent redevelopment in 2014, sports journalist Gerard Whateley described the venue as being "the most perfect piece of modern architecture because it's a thoroughly contemporary stadium with all the character that it's had in the past." Adelaide Oval has been headquarters to the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) since 1871 and South Australian National Football League (SANFL) since 2014. The stadium is managed by the Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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