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With a 71-run win over the West Indies Women’s team, the Australian Women’s Cricket team will play in their fifth consecutive ICC T20 World Cup match on Sunday morning.

Leading into the match, the big question on everyone’s lips was ‘will Alyssa Healy be playing?’ Alyssa is currently Australia’s most in-form cricketer, scoring six centuries in her last eight T20 innings but was under an injury cloud following her departure from the field in Australia’s loss to India earlier this week due to concussion.

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For the Konstantopoulos family, summer is synonymous with cricket.

From when I was a little girl, I have plenty of fond memories playing backyard cricket with my dad and brothers, attempting classic catches into the pool during the hot days and also cuddling up to my dad to watch the Boxing Day Test, often still feeling very snoozy and full of Christmas cheer.

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The Australian women’s Cricket team will tomorrow play their first game of the ICC women’s World T20 in the Caribbean against Pakistan.

Interestingly, it’s only the third time the Australian team has played in the Caribbean – the first was for a Test match back in 1976 and the second time was for their successful World T20 campaign in 2010 where the squad was captained by Alex Blackwell.

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The Australian women’s cricket team have started the international summer with a bang, winning their first two matches in their T20 ODI series against New Zealand.

That means that the Aussies have managed to seal the series before the final game for the first time in a T20 series since 2012 against the Kiwis.

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The summer of cricket well and truly begins tonight when the Australian women’s cricket team take on the New Zealand White Ferns in the first of three T20 matches taking place over the next week.

The first game will take place at North Sydney Oval. If it evokes similar enthusiasm as the Ashes series did last November, spectators are in for an outstanding evening of cricket.

The Australian team features plenty of fan favourites, including Alyssa Healy, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt and Elyse Villani. But there are some new players in the squad too, with two uncapped players – Georgia Wareham and Tayla Vlaeminck, both from Victoria – set to make their international debut.

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This week the New South Wales government signalled its intention to be a heavy hitter in the sporting event space over the next ten years with a strategic decision announced on Monday to bid for ten world cups in the next ten years.

When it comes to women’s sport, I always say it is important to celebrate how far we have come, while continuing to strive to be better because we still have a very long way to go.

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Yesterday, the fixtures for WBBL04 were announced by Cricket Australia and there have been some big developments.

It seems that Cricket Australia has learnt from what worked last year and has made some changes which again prove that they are a sport that is passionate about being a for everyone.

As per usual, the summer will begin with a bang – but this time, with a triple bang.

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My favourite thing that happened in women’s sport this week was watching history being made in India when the first ever IPL Women’s T20 challenge took place in Mumbai.

I have to be honest, I didn’t really care about the result because the Supernovas and the Trailblazers each featured some of my favourite members of the Australian Women’s Cricket Team, but it was the Supernovas (7-130) who beat the Trailblazers (6-129) by three wickets.

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Winter may be fast approaching, but this week there have been plenty of exciting announcements made in the cricket space which have made me feel like summer is right around the corner.

Let’s head straight to India, where next week Ellyse Perry, Alyssa Healy, Megan Schutt and Beth Mooney will join a cast of international superstars in a one-off women’s Indian Premier League exhibition match.

Eight internationals, including these four Aussies, will join players from India to play in two XIs captained by Indian players Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana.

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