West Australian wicketkeeper Maddy Darke has explained why Test cricket is still the pinnacle of the women’s game, despite their being no red-ball domestic competitions as she begins a three-day hit-out.
Jackson Barrett
Growth. Togetherness. Power and pride. That’s what six of Western Australia’s leading female athletes are celebrating this International Women’s Day.
Caitlin Bassett
Western Australia has finished their Women’s National Cricket League season with a rare win, but it wasn’t enough to pull them off the bottom of the ladder.
Western Australia will have to win their final game of the season with a bonus point and hope another result goes their way to climb off the bottom of the Women’s National Cricket League table.
West Australian swing-bowling sensation Chloe Ainsworth will miss the rest of the season with a stress injury in her foot.
An English debutant — plucked from a season in Perth grade cricket — has helped Western Australia power to just their second win of the Women’s National Cricket League season.
Western Australia are confident injury-plagued pace bowler Taneale Peschel can return in time for their final two Women’s National Cricket League games of the season.
CAITLIN BASSETT: It’s 2025 and I can’t believe we are still having to justify female sporting accomplishments on the cricket pitch.
Newly-crowned Young Cricketer of the Year Chloe Ainsworth will race to Canberra from the Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia to play for Western Australia later this week.
West Australian rising star Chloe Ainsworth has been rewarded for her outstanding performances this season named the Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year at the 2025 Australian Cricket Awards.
Alana King has spun another web as her golden Ashes continued during the opening day of the historic day-night Test at the MCG.
Aaron Kirby
Christina Matthews is the latest inductee into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame after the former star wicket-keeper turned WA cricket CEO was recognised for her immense contribution on and off the field.
Jake Santa Maria
These have been Alana King’s Ashes. Now the West Australian leg-spinner looks set to be given a chance to round out her best series yet in a historic Test match at the MCG.
Western Australia has bottled a chance to upset Victoria, falling victim to a lone-wolf innings by all-rounder Tess Flintoff and giving up a 21-run final-wicket partnership
Perth Scorchers WBBL and New Zealand captain Sophie Devine will take an immediate break from the game with no clear timeline for when the star will return.
Chloe Piparo will become just the third women’s cricketer to play 100 games for Western Australia on Monday. The WA skipper has reflected on her life in the sport.
Western Australia’s women’s cricket captain Chloe Piparo is in the process of changing her international allegiances to Italy and hopes to give back to her grandparents, who fled the country.
West Australian quick Taneale Peschel has suffered another injury setback and will miss two matches against Victoria this week.
Australia has one hand on the Ashes after a clean sweep of the ODIs but the task has become harder after a shock new injury.
Alana King has claimed a five-wicket haul for the first time in her one-day-international career to seal a clean-sweep over England and spark calls for her to be recalled to the Twenty20 team.
Australia's Alana King has been the player of the women's Ashes so far, but the star spinner is still unlikely to keep her spot for the T20 part of the series.
Oliver Caffrey and Scott Bailey
An inspired bowling performance and an Amy Edgar four-fer have broken Western Australia’s WNCL duck in a pressure-relieving ...-wicket victory over New South Wales at the WACA.
England have thrown away a golden opportunity to level the women’s Ashes series as a wild finish saw Australia sneak home by 21 runs.
Western Australia has confirmed English all-rounder Naomi Dattani is in line to make her Women’s National Cricket League debut as part of a fresh side to start the back half of the season.
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