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WBBL|10: All you need to know, teams, squads, overseas players

Friday, 25-Oct-2024
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The Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) 10 is set to kick off on October 27 (Sunday), bringing a sense of enthusiasm among fans. This season marks a significant shift, as the tournament has been streamlined to align more closely with the Big Bash League (BBL), reducing the number of matches to 40. Each club will play a total of 10 games, down from last season’s 14, ensuring an action-packed schedule. 

Team finishing on top of the points table will host the final, which will be held on December 1 (Sunday). Adelaide Strikers will enter the tournament as the defending champions after they beat Brisbane Heat in the final by three runs last year. Having clinched title victories in the last two editions of the tournament, Adelaide Strikers Women would aim to seal three-peat of WBBL titles. 

The tournament will begin with a triple-header, with Adelaide Strikers taking on Brisbane Heat and Melbourne Renegades facing off against Sydney Sixers. The third match will be between Perth Scorchers and Melbourne Stars. 

Here are the overseas players each of the eight teams is carrying: 

Adelaide Strikers - Smriti Mandhana (India), Laura Wolvaardt (South Africa), Orla Prendergast (Ireland)

Brisbane Heat - Jemimah Rodrigues (India), Shikha Pandey (India), Nadine de Klerk (South Africa)

Hobart Hurricanes - Danni Wyatt-Hodge (England), Chloe Tryon (South Africa), Lizelle Lee (South Africa), Suzie Bates (New Zealand)

Melbourne Renegades - Deandra Dottin (West Indies), Hayley Matthews (West Indies), Alice Capsey (England)

Melbourne Stars - Deepti Sharma (India), Marizanne Kapp (South Africa), Yastika Bhatia (India)

Perth Scorchers - Sophie Devine (New Zealand), Amy Jones (England), Hemalatha Dayalan (India)

Sydney Sixers - Sophie Ecclestone (England), Amelia Kerr (New Zealand), Hollie Armitage (England)

Sydney Thunder - Heather Knight (England), Shabnim Ismail (South Africa), Chamari Athapaththu (Sri Lanka), Georgia Adams (England)

Squads:

Adelaide Stikers - Jemma Barsby, Darcie Brown, Maggie Clark, Ellie Johnston, Eleanor Larosa, Katie Mack, Smriti Mandhana, Anesu Mushangwe, Tahlia McGrath (c), Bridget Patterson, Maddie Penna, Orla Prendergast, Megan Schutt, Amanda-Jade Wellington, Laura Wolvaardt

Brisbane Heat - Bonnie Berry, Nadine de Klerk, Sianna Ginger, Lucy Hamilton, Nicola Hancock, Grace Harris, Laura Harris, Jess Jonassen, Charli Knott, Shikha Pandey, Grace Parsons, Georgia Redmayne, Jemimah Rodrigues, Mikayla Wrigley

Melbourne Stars - Sophie Day, Tess Flintoff, Yastika Bhatia, Kim Garth, Maisy Gibson, Hasrat Gill, Liv Henry, Marizanne Kapp, Meg Lanning, Rhys McKenna, Ines McKeon, Sasha Moloney, Sophie Reid, Deepti Sharma, Annabel Sutherland

Perth Scorchers - Chloe Ainsworth, Stella Campbell, Piepa Cleary, Maddy Darke, Dayalan Hemalatha, Sophie Devine, Amy Edgar, Mikayla Hinkley, Ebony Hoskin, Amy Jones, Alana King, Carly Leeson, Lilly Mills, Beth Mooney, Chloe Piparo

Sydney Sixers - Hollie Armitage, Maitlan Brown, Erin Burns, Mathilda Carmichael, Lauren Cheatle, Sophie Ecclestone, Ashleigh Gardner, Alyssa Healy, Amelia Kerr, Isabella Malgioglio, Kate Pelle, Ellyse Perry, Kate Peterson, Courtney Sippel

Hobart Hurricanes - Nicola Carey, Zoe Cooke, Heather Graham, Ruth Johnston, Lizelle Lee, Hayley Silver-Holmes, Tabatha Saville, Amy Smith, Lauren Smith, Molly Strano, Rachel Trenaman, Chloe Tryon, Elyse Villani, Callie Wilson, Danni Wyatt-Hodge

Melbourne Renegades - Alice Capsey, Sarah Coyte, Emma de Broughe, Josie Dooley, Deandra Dottin, Nicole Faltum, Ella Hayward, Milly Illingworth, Hayley Matthews, Sophie Molineux, Georgia Prestwidge, Naomi Stalenberg, Tayla Vlaeminck, Georgia Wareham, Courtney Webb

Sydney Thunder - Georgia Adams, Chamari Athapaththu, Sam Bates, Ella Briscoe, Hannah Darlington, Sienna Eve, Saskia Horley, Shabnim Ismail, Sammy-Jo Johnson, Heather Knight, Anika Learoyd, Phoebe Litchfield (c), Claire Moore, Taneale Peschel, Georgia Voll, Tahlia Wilson

 

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