Perth Scorchers have brought batter Amy Jones back to the club with their first live pick in the WBBL overseas player draft, but have turned their back on another English star.
Jackson Barrett
Perth Scorchers will leave a call on whether captain and international star Sophie Devine will open the batting this season until after the overseas player draft.
Australian megastar Beth Mooney has shirked offers from rival clubs to pen a three-year deal with Perth Scorchers, because she was confident its core group would stay together.
Perth Scorchers spinner Amy Edgar has signed on with the club for the next two seasons and says there is unfinished business to be taken care of after last summer’s early finals exit.
Perth Scorchers captain Sophie Devine is confident the Women’s Big Bash League can retain its star power amid a packed international schedule.
Perth Scorchers have locked away their best and most important player outside of the overseas draft in a move that opens up their recruiting strategy.
Perth Scorchers spinner Alana King wants the club to target a frontline pace bowler in this year’s recruitment period to replace Taneale Peschel.
Australian white-ball star Alana King has signed a landmark deal to play for Perth Scorchers for the next three seasons.
Swing bowler Taneale Peschel has left Perth Scorchers and signed a two-year deal to play with Sydney Thunder from this summer.
Perth Scorchers will play at two of the country’s most famous cricket grounds this WBBL season as part of the tournament’s expanded Stadium Series.
Mikayla Hinkley is set to strengthen the Perth Scorchers’ middle order after signing a two-season deal ahead of WBBL10.
Aaron Kirby
Western Australia have handed middle-order batter Bhavi Devchand a shock domestic cricket lifeline, five years after her most recent game for the State.
Queensland batter Mikayla Hinkley will join Western Australia for this summer’s Women’s National Cricket League and has declared her new team a sleeping giant.
Cricket Australia is set to backflip on its new State-based women’s Twenty20 tournament just a fortnight after it was announced, instead relaunching it as a tournament played between WBBL clubs.
Australian cricket superstar Meg Lanning has opened up on the reasons she ended her international career aged just 31.
Oliver Caffrey
Australia have totally outplayed South Africa to win the women's Test in Perth by an innings and 284 runs to wrap up victory in the multi-format series.
Justin Chadwick
Annabel Sutherland is no longer an emerging allrounder, stamping herself as a bona fide Australian gem with a famous double century that has her side on the brink of a rollicking victory over South Africa.
Western Australia’s Women’s National Cricket League finals hopes have come crashing down in an unceremonious flogging against Queensland, who booked their own spot in the decider.
Alyssa Healy completed a dominant opening day for Australia that started with 13 wickets in two frenetic sessions, but fell one run short of a maiden Test century against South Africa.
Mystery surrounds the WACA Ground wicket for Test cricket’s return to the historic venue, which means Alyssa Healy is keeping the mystery around Australia’s team, too.
Australian cricket champion Ellyse Perry has declared the WACA the ideal venue for Test matches as momentum grows around the historic venue becoming a go-to for women’s fixtures.
Beth Mooney says she feels “more valued” in Western Australia after making the shift from Queensland, as she prepares to play a Test at her adopted home ground for the first time.
The future of Australian women’s cricket will be on show in Sri Lanka with two WA stars earning the chance to impress in the green and gold in a World Cup audition.
Jake Santa Maria
Australian leg-spinning queen Alana King will be hoping to use her home-ground knowledge to break a two-Test wicketless drought when they take on South Africa at the WACA Ground later this week.
Mitchell Woodcock