The fourth season of the Women's Premier League begins on Friday. UK viewers can watch the first game on Sky Sports+ from 2pm. Looks like the tournament will be bouncing between Sky Sports Mix and Sky Sports+ from then on. #WPL #womenscricket

Women's National Cricket League ACT Meteors v Victoria Phillip Oval, Canberra Victoria win the toss and bowl. #WNCL scorecard & livestream www.cricket.com.au/matches/CA:2...

It won't happen, but this is a moment in which solidarity could be used to reshape the ICC (or bring it the destruction it has arguably deserved since its 1909 founding as an imperial instrument). At the very least, it would make it easier to remember which of the 8 million T20 World Cups this was.

Women's National Cricket League ACT Meteors v Victoria Phillip Oval, Canberra ACT win the the toss and bowl. #WNCL scorecard & livestream www.cricket.com.au/matches/CA:2...

Women's T20 Super Smash Northern Brave v Otago Sparks Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui Brave win the toss and bat. #SuperSmashNZ scoring.nzc.nz/match/cf7acd...

Women's National Cricket League Tasmania v Queensland Bellerive Oval TAS win the toss and bowl. #WNCL scorecard & livestream www.cricket.com.au/matches/CA:2...

'Eye on Aussie stars' [lack of] availability as WNCL returns' #WNCL www.cricket.com.au/news/4427211...

Women's T20 Super Smash Central Hinds v Canterbury Magicians Saxton Oval, Nelson Hinds win the toss and bat. #SuperSmashNZ scoring.nzc.nz/match/2e41c9...

Women's T20 Super Smash Auckland Hearts v Wellington Blaze Hearts win the toss and bowl. #SuperSmashNZ scoring.nzc.nz/match/36c370...

'France Cricket faces power struggle as government backing hangs in the balance' This story seems like the tip of an iceberg with regard to the ICC, but it also seems like any wider investigation will never get the required funding from established cricket media. www.france24.com/en/sport/202...

2026 cricket predictions - great chunks of the the game will be sold to Saudi Arabia - the ICC will remain openly corrupt & face no scrutiny - the Women's T20 World Cup in England will have minimal mainstream cut-through in the host nation, regardless of how they perform (most likely badly)

Women's T20 Super Smash Northern Brave v Wellington Blaze Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui Brave win the toss and bowl. #SuperSmashNZ scoring.nzc.nz/match/4c7d25...

The latest episode of No Balls the Cricket Podcast with Kate Cross and Alex Hartley. 'Madness in Melbourne & menstrual moans' www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

5th women's T20I India v Sri Lanka Greenfield Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram Sri Lanka win the toss and bowl. #INDvSL www.bcci.tv/events/268/s...

Women's T20 Super Smash Otago Sparks v Central Hinds Molyneux Park, Alexandra Hinds win the toss and bat. #SuperSmashNZ scoring.nzc.nz/match/27605b...

Women's T20 Super Smash Wellington Blaze v Auckland Hearts Basin Reserve, Wellington Blaze win the toss and bat. #SuperSmashNZ scoring.nzc.nz/match/44f728...

Given preparation has been such a hot topic recently, it's probably worth asking why England women didn't play any ODIs in Asia between December 2019 and the start of the 2025 World Cup, and with a home T20 World Cup next year, they have no international fixtures on the schedule until May. #cricket

4th women's T20I India v Sri Lanka Greenfield Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram Sri Lanka win the toss and bowl, which at least means there won't be a precise replication of the last three very samey results. #INDvSL www.bcci.tv/events/268/s...

Women's T20 Super Smash Otago Sparks v Canterbury Magicians Molyneux Park, Alexandra Sparks win the toss and bowl. #SuperSmashNZ scoring.nzc.nz/match/90d563...

Women's T20 Super Smash Central Hinds v Wellington Blaze Fitzherbert Park, Palmerston North Blaze win the toss and bat. #SuperSmashNZ scoring.nzc.nz/match/7f92bd...

3rd women's T20I India v Sri Lanka Greenfield Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram India bowling first in search of a series win at the earliest opportunity. #INDvSL www.bcci.tv/events/268/s...

NZ Women's Super Smash Northern Brave v Auckland Hearts Seddon Park, Hamilton Brave win the toss and bowl. #SuperSmashNZ scoring.nzc.nz/match/f41264...

Andy Zaltzman managed to include some cricket statting in his prize task on Taskmaster Champion of Champions. The index of the book he created for the task references Kapil Dev's famous 175* at Tunbridge Wells during the 1983 World Cup - a game which Zaltzman saw in person. #taskmaster #cricket

"Blaze captain Kirstie Gordon has committed her international future to Scotland, more than eight years on from her last appearance in blue" www.cricketscotland.com/Article/7eae...

'Rights groups condemn new record number of executions in Saudi Arabia' Something to think about as you see the logo of Saudi oil giant Aramco plastered across Cricket World Cups (the ICC proudly state that their partnership "extends beyond traditional sponsorship"). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Despite them taking more self inflicted rakes to the face than Sideshow Bob, this tour has been notably lacking in pious declarations from respected cricket writers, underlining in no uncertain terms that the England men's team haven't earned the right to set foot on the MCG. Odd that.

2nd women's T20I India v Sri Lanka Visakhapatnam India win the toss and bowl. #INDvSL www.bcci.tv/events/268/s...

Sri Lanka post 121/6 (20.0) against India. #INDvSL www.bcci.tv/events/268/s...

@norcrosscricket.bsky.social Today marks the anniversary of the start of the 1984 Women's Ashes Test at Adelaide Oval. The game remains one of the greatest games in women's Test history, and saw England stage a remarkable comeback victory. www.espncricinfo.com/series/engla...

3rd women's ODI South Africa v Ireland The Wanderers, Johannesburg Ireland win the toss and bat. #SAvIRE cricketireland.ie/matches/?tab... livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2-U...

2nd women's T20 North Island v South Island Saxton Oval, Nelson South win the toss and bat. scorecard scoring.nzc.nz/match/b85e60... livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYPQ...

Though no longer a new development, worth noting it's pretty useless that ESPNcricinfo aren't providing live scoring for a women's ODI between two Full Member nations (for which live streaming is freely available). An empty scorecard simply stating/demanding 'Bet' says it all.

Anyone who follows BBC sport knows there are still plenty of male presenters. All this really means - given 'Big Beasts' is a term wholly in the eye of the beholder - is that Simon, though unable to articulate it in a way that doesn't make him seem like a total loser, thinks all the men are crap.

The mind boggling aspect of Meg Lanning's extraordinary record in ODIs, is she suffered a career ruining injury in what should have been her peak years - the period that the likes of Mandhana, Matthews & Wolvaardt have been flourishing in recently - so she could have been even further our in front.

2nd women's ODI South Africa v Ireland St George's Park, Gqeberha SA win the toss and bat. #SAvIRE cricketireland.ie/matches/?tab... livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4sc...

Anyone interested in cricket stats should see women's cricket as a great area to get into, as it's still in the exciting, pioneering stage men's cricket went through a century or so ago - compiling and defining the foundational stats - combined with all the tools of the digital age.

@acscricket.bsky.social Committee agreed a list of women's matches to be judged as first-class. The list can be found at archive.acscricket.com/research/wom... . Comments welcome. We don't have full scores for some of these matches, so any help in doing research to find them would be very welcome.

'How John Oliver’s comedy partner transitioned from stand up to statistics' www.nytimes.com/athletic/686...

Sports media repeatedly using someone with no current connection to professional sport, and no profile or credibility as a pundit as an endless source of clickbait 'content' is weird and desperate, and when the subject is very clearly not all there, it becomes grimly exploitative.

'Hurricanes blow away Scorchers for maiden WBBL title' #WBBL11 www.cricket.com.au/news/4419026...

Champions Hobart Hurricanes finished WBBL11 with an average run-rate of 8.71 rpo, the highest by any team in a WBBL season. Hurricanes hit a boundary off 1 in 5 balls they faced across the season. #WBBL11

1st women's ODI South Africa v Ireland Buffalo Park, East London Ireland win the toss and bat. #SAvIRE www.espncricinfo.com/series/irela... livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCaH...

WBBL11 final Hobart Hurricanes v Perth Scorchers Bellerive Oval, Hobart Scorchers win the toss and bat. #WBBL11 www.cricket.com.au/matches/CA:2...

'Rest or runs? Hurricanes and Scorchers take contrasting roads to WBBL final' #WBBL11 www.espncricinfo.com/series/women...

'Hurricanes v Scorchers, WBBL|11 Final: All you need to know' #WBBL11 www.cricket.com.au/news/4417971...

'Masterful Mooney sets up Scorchers' charge to WBBL Final' #WBBL11 www.cricket.com.au/news/4417995...?

WBBL11 Challenger Sydney Sixers v Perth Scorchers North Sydney Oval Sixers win the toss and bowl. #WBBL11 www.cricket.com.au/matches/CA:2...

'All's well at the top as Sixers solve their opening conundrum' #WBBL11 www.cricket.com.au/news/4417472...

'Caoimhe Bray sidelined after recurrence of back stress fracture' #WBBL11 www.espncricinfo.com/story/wbbl-c...

3rd women's T20I South Africa v Ireland Willowmoore Park, Benoni Start delayed by lightning. #SAvIRE www.espncricinfo.com/series/irela... livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=g18N...