Women's National Cricket League

Oh, geez.

The, the, the schedule is that tight that in the guts of our summer that you'll see all the superstars playing in the WBBL and the WNCL if you get along, but I don't think we're gonna see Australian, the Australian women play a series-

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Is there anyone you're liking the look of at the moment heading into the last few trainings into tomorrow being Friday with the first one day? Anyone that's seeing them particularly well or setting them down at a pretty good knot, fair bit of revs on the ball? Who do you like the look of heading into this series?

Everyone was in very good nick for WNCL sides and training's been amazing.

But if I'm going to single out one, it would be Annabelle Sutherland with both bat and ball.

She is an absolute class act and looks like she's seeing beach balls when she's batting at the moment.

We are back for a huge summer of women's cricket today.

We're going to be looking at the season ahead, getting into the opening round of the WNCL and Australia's series against Bangladesh.

We're going to be talking about the WBBL signings and catching up with Taylor Vlaminic.

But of course, I have to reintroduce you to the one and only Molly Strano.

Wow.

Well, there is a lot of cricket to come and a lot to play.

Give us the broad picture of the season ahead because there's WNCL already underway.

We've got Bangladesh coming for the ODIs, New Zealand for the T20s, the Spring Challenge, and then the WBBL.

So m-men's test cricket against India and England makes money, the Big Bash makes money, but just about every other format of cricket we play loses money.

Sheffield Shield, WNCL, Domestic One-Dayers, WBBL, our, our under 19s, the National Inclusion Championships, the National Indigenous Championships, all of those things cost money.

So there is a, is a very small amount of international cricket doing a lot of work.

So over the last 12 months, we have had the Indian One-Dayers and we've had the Ashes, so two of our big, uh, cash or revenue drivers have been played in the last 12 months.

Sam Harper has also been drafted in as a backup wicket keeper with a finger fracture now officially ruling Josh Inglis out of the first test in Durban starting next Friday.

Closer to home, Rose has taken the reins in to the Meteors after Aaron Osborne left midway through the season before linking up with English outfit Somerset, with the new ACT coach now turning his attention to a looming twenty-twenty management before the WNCL begins.

The Meteors open their twenty-twenty spring challenge against the Hobart Hurricanes on October twelve, with their fifty over WNCL campaign to begin against New South Wales on December fifteen.

Rose made a name for himself on the domestic scene as a left arm orthodox spinner with stints at Victoria, Tasmania, and the Melbourne Stars and Hobart Hurricanes before moving into coaching.

And that story, uh, is over two pages, twenty-eight and twenty-nine Canberra Times, and it was by Caden Helmers and Carlene Minner, Minnie.

First up, let's hear from Lauren Winfield-Hill.

[upbeat music] Lauren, the WNCL has started with three matches in round one.

I won't ask you about the Queensland game, um, but did anyone catch your eye in those games? There were quite a few Australia internationals playing, so Beth Mooney scored an unbeaten 100, Georgia Voll scored 83, Tahlia McGrath scored a big 100, um, but there are also a couple of non-internationals who put in strong performances.

Yeah.

Well, Sophie Molineux obviously played that role a little bit when she first became captain in the West Indies as well.

Um, we'll get onto Australia's, uh, winter in a minute because it's quite an interesting calendar they've got coming up over the next couple of months.

But first of all, before we move on from the WNCL, tell me about Aya Stafford, 'cause at Queensland she's 16 years old.

She's already played in the WBBL.