2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season
The 2018–19 Women's Big Bash League season or WBBL|04 was the fourth season of the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL), the semi-professional women's Twenty20 domestic cricket competition in Australia. The tournament ran from 1 December 2018 to 26 January 2019.
Indian international Harmanpreet Kaur hits out for Sydney Thunder against Perth Scorchers at Lilac Hill Park, Perth, on 29 December 2018. The Scorchers' wicket-keeper, England international Amy Jones, looks on. The Scorchers later scored 4/180 to win the match by six wickets, with just one ball remaining.
Ellyse Alexandra Perry is an Australian sportswoman who has represented her country in cricket and soccer. Having debuted for both the national cricket team and the national soccer team at the age of 16, she is the youngest Australian to play international cricket and the first to have appeared in both ICC and FIFA World Cups. Gradually becoming a single-sport professional athlete from 2014 onward, Perry's acclaimed cricket career has continued to flourish and she is widely regarded to be one of the greatest woman cricketers of all time.
Perry during the Women's Ashes in 2017
Perry playing for Canberra United in 2009
Perry playing for Canberra United in 2009
Perry at the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup
