Kirsten Pike

Australia have picked the tough 13-player squad they hope will be able to regain the Ashes next month, and also win the five-match ODI series

Ashley Noffke was rewarded for his outstanding all-round season, winning the Ian Healy Trophy for the first time as Queensland's best player in 2006-07

Australia batted and bowled a below-par New Zealand side out of the Quadrangular final to wrap up a comprehensive six-wicket win

New Zealand suffered their first defeat of tournament as they failed to chase down 234 against Australia, falling 49 runs short in Chennai

New South Wales Breakers will aim for back-to-back National Women's Cricket League titles after they sealed second place

A 71-run undefeated stand for the seventh wicket between Sarah Edwards and Julie Hayes sealed a four-wicket wicket win for the Australian women as they wrapped up the series against New Zealand 5-0

Clea Smith and Sarah Andrews have been named in the starting eleven as Australia make two changes for the second ODI against New Zealand

Kirsten Pike and Sarah Edwards have replaced the experienced duo of Melanie Jones and Louise Broadfoot for the Women's Ashes series

The selectors have named four debutants in a 20-member squad for the 2005-06 season

Cricket Australia today announced that the women's national selection panel has chosen a 13-player squad to take on New Zealand in the first leg of the six-match Rose Bowl series beginning in Auckland on 11 February

The Australian Cricket Board today announced the Australian female under-19 team to take on England's under-19 side in two one-day internationals at Bowral in New South Wales on 14 and 15 January.

The Konica Queensland Under-19 women's team today gained a fittingreward for winning the State's first National Under-19 title with sixplayers named in the Australian team to play England next week.