Proteas squads and fixtures for the Ireland inbound tour:

No Jemimah Rodrigues or Grace Harris for Heat. Lauren Winfield-Hill opens the batting.... Em Arlott in for Athapaththu for Thunder.....

This is a truly dreadful match report almost certainly written by a robot. Have we really come to this?

"Ball just dipped last minute" Sthaleker 🤦🏻‍♂️

TV comms talking up Perry's bowling, as if they haven't watched her bowling for the last 18 months. She is a great player, but she is not bowling well. A bit of realism would be nice.

One door opens and one door closes. Renegades drop Perrin and bring in Wong for their next game.

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Bangladesh women's tour of India to play a series of three ODIs and three T20Is in December has been postponed. The matches were expected to be played in Kolkata and Cuttack, with the ODIs kicking off the new cycle of the ICC Women's Championship for both sides More details: bit.ly/3LJbCrQ

With the Proteas squad to announced soon, here's a look at the players who stand a chance getting called up: Matches include: 3 List A and 3 T20 vs Bangladesh Emerging, 3 List A and 4 T20 vs Capricorn Eagles (Namibia), and the 2025/2026 domestic season up to 16 November.

Some more random thoughts on the WBBL after the second weekend of games comes to an end..... womens-cricket.blogspot.com/2025/11/wbbl...

"Kira Chatli needs to save up for false teeth......"

A quick update on the WBBL before this weekend's games womens-cricket.blogspot.com/2025/11/wbbl...

England have announced their Performance Programmes Squad of 13... Kira Chathli Tilly Corteen-Coleman Jodi Grewcock Cassidy McCarthy Ella McCaughan Davina Perrin Grace Potts Grace Scrivens Seren Smale Rhianna Southby Alexa Stonehouse Grace Thompson Phoebe Turner

**WBBL Live** Strikers beat Renegades by 7 wickets with 14 balls unused. Wolvaardt 71* (48). Two opportunities to get her out badly missed.

Why do commentators insist that "the ball drops at the last second" when a catch is dropped? Physics says this is nonsense. It's a fielding error.

**WBBL Live** Strikers cruising after 10 overs on 79/1. 63 more runs needed. Wolvaardt 36* (26)

**WBBL Live** Strikers 31/0 after powerplay. Decent start. Missed stumping of Wolvaardt could be expensive.

**WBBL Live** Renegades finish on an under par 141/9

**WBBL Live** Renegades 109/5 after 15. Wareham 27*

**WBBL Live** Renegades 26/1 after the powerplay v Strikers Perrin out for 3 (6)

Trump has no legal case against the BBC, but that won't stop him suing & causing the BBC to waste time & money. In the UK there is the status of "vexatious litigant", but not sure this applies in the US.

**WBBL Live** Heat bowled out for 149 & lose to Scorchers by 23 runs. Poor catching left the Heat with too many to chase (not that Scorchers caught much better!)

**WBBL Live** Heat 107/4 after 15 overs. They need 66 off 30 balls.

**WBBL Live** Hoskin gets Harris in the 11th over with a slower ball & Heat's task has just got a lot harder. 77/3.

**WBBL Live** Heat have struggled to 67/2 after 10 overs (Scorchers were 66/0). They need another 105.

**WBBL Live** King leaves the field with a hand injury from a dropped catch earlier. Potential headache for Scorchers.

**WBBL Live** Heat only manage 27/1 in the 4 over powerplay. De Klerk holed out at cow. Behind the clock.....

**WBBL Live** Scorchers finish on 172/3 with the impressive Hamilton taking 2 wickets in the final over & finishing with 2/28. Mooney 105 (70) But looks to be 20 runs short of par.

**WBBL Live** Hamilton bowls the second Power Surge over & only goes for 3. Really well bowled.

**WBBL Live** First over of the Power Surge bowled by Hancock goes for 21. Scorchers 131/1 after 16 overs.

**WBBL Live** Nadine de Klerk is Heat's 8th bowler in the 14th over. Seems unnecessary!

**WBBL Live** After 10 overs Scorchers are 66/0. Thay have only scored 30 in the 6 overs post powerplay. Very few boundaries. Smart bowling by Heat, although poor fielding - 3 drops.

**WBBL Live** Heat have used 7 bowlers in the first 7 overs v Scorchers.

**WBBL Live** Scorchers are 36/0 after 4 overs of the powerplay v Heat. Looks a good wicket. 180+ target. Mack dropped on 0.

**WBBL11 Upcoming** Tomorrow's & Thursday's WBBL games start at a more reasonable hour for UK viewers.... Heat v Scorchers Wed 8:10am Sixers v Canes Thursday's 8:10am

**WWBL11** Thunder 148/7 lost to Renegades 151/6 by 4 wickets. Leaves Thunder 0/2 & Renegades 2/2. Don't think either team will make the finals though.

**WBBL11 First Round** Just a view thoughts after we see all eight teams in action for the first time....... womens-cricket.blogspot.com/2025/11/wbbl...

A look at the contract situation of Somerset's women Last season Somerset had 16 contracted players, excluding 3 England centrally contracted players, 1 overseas player and Ruby Davis who was signed mid-season on a short-term deal Of those 16, 13 are signed for next season 1/4

In the early game Heat put 133 ao on the board & after rain Renegades chased down 66 off 8 overs with 3 balls to spare & 7 wickets in hand.

Sixers have romped home no wickets down in less than 13 overs Dunkley 61* including 5 straight 6s Perry 47* Scorchers have work to do. Thoroughly outplayed.

Sixers racing to victory with 37/0 off the 4 over powerplay. Just 73 more runs needed to win.

Scorchers bowled out for 109 with 4 balls unused. New Sixers' skipper Gardner gets 5/15.

Scorchers manage just 8 off the powersurge 2 overs. They are 91/7 after 15 overs King & Mills at the crease.

Scorchers struggling on 62/4 after 10 overs v Sixers. Sixers bowling tight lines.

Excited to see Freya Kemp in the WBBL. Big prospect for England. Not ideal to come in on a gat-trick ball with the score 44/4.

In Perth after the 4 over powerplay Scorchers are 27/1 v Sixers. Mack the only casualty.

Hurricanes pull off a remarkably comfortable win, despite last minute wobbles, thanks to a 143 run partnership between DWH (90) & Carey (58*). They win by 6 wickets Thunder let that slip badly in the last 10 overs.

After 10 overs Canes have battled to 78/2. They still need 104 runs off the next 60 balls.

Canes are 27/2 after the 4 over powerplay Lee & NSB both gone. Advantage Thunder.

Thunder finish on 181/8 with contributions from almost all the batters. Horribly ragged bowling performance from Canes, including 22 extras & a plethora of full tosses. Thunder favourites if they bowl at the stumps.