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The Australian women's national cricket team (formerly also known as the Southern Stars) represent Australia in international women's cricket.Currently captained by Alyssa Healy [8] and coached by Shelley Nitschke, [9] they are the top team in all world rankings assigned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the women's game.
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Australian women's cricket team for at least one women's One-Day International. Australia won the World Cup in 1977–78, 1981–82, 1988–89, 1997–98, 2004–05 and 2021–22. The table of results is complete to the third ODI against the West Indies in October 2023.
The list is arranged in the order in which each player won her Test cap. Until 2001, players making their debut in the same Test would have their cap number determined by appearance in the batting order, [1] [2] except for Margaret Peden who was allocated cap number one due to being Australia's captain in the first-ever Test.
Lisa Carprini Sthalekar (born 13 August 1979) is an Indian-born-Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer and captain of the Australia women's national cricket team. In domestic cricket, she represented New South Wales.
Alyssa Jean Healy (born 24 March 1990) is an Australian cricketer who plays for and captains the Australian women's national team.She also plays for New South Wales in domestic cricket, as well as the Sydney Sixers in the WBBL and captains the UP Warriorz in Women's Premier League in India.
Meghann Moira Lanning AM (born 25 March 1992) is an Australian cricketer who formerly captained the national women's team.Lanning has been a member of seven successful world championship campaigns, winning two Women's Cricket World Cup and five ICC Women's World Twenty20 titles.
Since their first match in 2005, 60 women have represented the Australia national women's cricket team in Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is). [1] A Twenty20 International is a cricket match between two international representative teams, each having WT20I status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
In 1986, Lyn Larsen, at the age of 22, became the youngest captain ever of the Australian women's national cricket team. In 1988, the Australian women won the Cricket World Cup. [17] In 1940, a study of 314 women in New Zealand and Australia was done. Most of the women in the study were middle class, conservative, Protestant and white.