Australia women's national cricket team
The Australian women's national cricket team represent Australia in international women's cricket. Currently captained by Alyssa Healy and coached by Shelley Nitschke, they are the top team in all world rankings assigned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the women's game.
The SCG hosted the second Test match in women's cricket history.
Betty Wilson was the first player to take ten wickets and score a century in the same Test.
A billboard from 1976 promotes the first-ever women's cricket match played at Lord's. Australia lost the ODI to England by eight wickets.
Lisa Sthalekar debuted for Australia in 2001. She became the first woman in the world to take 100 ODI wickets while scoring 1,000 ODI runs.
Women's cricket is the team sport of cricket when played by women. Its
rules are almost identical to those in the game played by men, the main change being the use of a smaller ball. Women's cricket is beginning to be played at professional level in 11 of the 12 full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), and is played worldwide, especially in Commonwealth nations.
Australian batter Meg Lanning plays a sweep shot while Merissa Aguilleira of the West Indies keeps wicket during the 2014 West Indies tour of Australia at the North Sydney Oval.
Watercolor painting from 1779 of a ladies cricket match played by Elizabeth Smith-Stanley, Countess of Derby and other women
A satirical image of a woman cricketer and a woman hunter from 1778. They're both wearing late-Georgian fashion with satirically shortened hemlines and one treads on a piece of paper titled "effeminacy".
Photo from 1934–35 England tour of Australia and New Zealand. The England team (L) wear divided skirts and white stockings. The "Woollengong" (sic) women's cricket team wear trousers, something that was described at the time as disgraceful.