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Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup

The Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup (WT20) was the premier domestic women's Twenty20 cricket competition in Australia. Beginning in 2007 as a series of exhibition matches, the first official tournament took place during the summer of 2009–10. All seven state and territory representative teams from its 50-over counterpart, the pre-existing Women's National Cricket League, participated in the WT20's formal six-year span. The competition was replaced by the Women's Big Bash League in 2015.

Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup
CountriesAustralia Australia
AdministratorCricket Australia
FormatTwenty20
First edition2009–10
Latest edition2014–15
Tournament formatDouble round-robin and final
Number of teams7
Most successfulVictoria (3 titles)
Most runsMeg Lanning – 2,087
Most wicketsJemma Barsby – 62

The Victorian Spirit were the most successful team, having managed to claim three titles in a row. The New South Wales Breakers finished on top of the ladder at the conclusion of every regular season, but they lost three consecutive championship deciders against Victoria before eventually winning two titles of their own. The Queensland Fire also won one title.

Tournament structure

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After experimenting with an informal five-match exhibition structure for each of its first two editions,[1][2] Cricket Australia delivered a fully-fledged competition for the 2009–10 season which was made up of a single round-robin before a final between the two highest-ranked teams.[3] For 2010–11 and onward, the structure of the tournament was expanded to twelve rounds and a final (or, in the case of the 2013–14 edition, a finals series featuring the four highest-ranked teams) to determine each season's champion.[4]

The competition was typically scheduled alongside, and interspersed with, the Women's National Cricket League as each team would draw from the same squad for both formats. In what was promoted as an "unprecedented"[5] boost to the visibility of the women's game, the 2014–15 season featured eight fixtures paired as double-headers with the men's Big Bash League. This included the championship decider which was also broadcast live and nationally on free-to-air network Ten.[6]

On 19 February 2015, Cricket Australia announced that the competition would be replaced by the Women's Big Bash League. The decision was made in an attempt to further heighten the profile and professionalism of elite-level women's cricket, thereby ideally helping to grow grassroots participation and viewership of the game among girls and women across the country.[7][8]

Teams

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Map of Australia with each state/territory shaded in its cricket team's main colour.

The Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup featured the same seven teams that competed in the Women's National Cricket League from the corresponding period of 2009 to 2015. In addition to each team's primary ground, matches were also played at a wide variety of alternate and boutique venues.

Team Nickname Home ground Established Titles won
Australian Capital Territory Meteors Manuka Oval 2009 0
New South Wales Breakers Sydney Cricket Ground 1996 2
Queensland Fire The Gabba 1996 1
South Australia Scorpions Adelaide Oval 1996 0
Tasmania Roar Bellerive Oval 2009 0
Victoria Spirit Melbourne Cricket Ground 1996 3
Western Australia Fury WACA Ground 1996 0

Tournament results

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Season summaries

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Season Champions Most runs Most wickets Player of the Season Sources
2009–10 Victoria Leah Poulton (NSW) – 201 Sarah Elliott (VIC) – 13 Alex Blackwell (NSW) [9][10][11][12]
2010–11 Victoria Karen Rolton (SA) – 440 Renee Chappell (WA) – 17 Karen Rolton (SA) [9][13][14][15]
2011–12 Victoria Melissa Bulow (QLD) – 505 Jemma Barsby (QLD) – 18 Meg Lanning (VIC) [9][16][17][18]
2012–13 New South Wales Alex Blackwell (NSW) – 377 Sthalekar (NSW), Ebsary (SA) – 16 Jenny Wallace (WA) [9][19][20][21]
2013–14 Queensland Elyse Villani (VIC) – 498 Aley (NSW), Pike (QLD) – 18 Elyse Villani (VIC) [9][22][23][24]
2014–15 New South Wales Alex Blackwell (NSW) – 451 Molly Strano (VIC) – 22 Heather Knight (TAS) [9][25][26][27]

Final summaries

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Final 1st Innings 2nd Innings Result Player of the Final Venue
2009–10 Victoria
5/127 (20 overs) 		New South Wales
75 (16 overs) 		Victoria won by 52 runs
Scorecard 		Clea Smith
(Victoria) 		Adelaide Oval
Adelaide, SA
2010–11 Victoria
5/161 (20 overs) 		New South Wales
9/157 (20 overs) 		Victoria won by 4 runs
Scorecard 		Meg Lanning[28]
(Victoria) 		Adelaide Oval
Adelaide, SA
2011–12 Victoria
7/143 (20 overs) 		New South Wales
9/134 (20 overs) 		Victoria won by 9 runs
Scorecard 		Danielle Wyatt[29]
(Victoria) 		Docklands Stadium
Melbourne, VIC
2012–13 Western Australia
5/126 (20 overs) 		New South Wales
5/130 (19.2 overs) 		New South Wales won by 5 wickets
Scorecard 		Alex Blackwell[30]
(New South Wales) 		WACA Ground
Perth, WA
2013–14 Australian Capital Territory
7/107 (20 overs) 		Queensland
3/108 (14.2 overs) 		Queensland won by 7 wickets
Scorecard 		Delissa Kimmince
(Queensland) 		WACA Ground
Perth, WA
2014–15 New South Wales
3/175 (20 overs) 		Victoria
8/124 (20 overs) 		New South Wales won by 51 runs
Scorecard 		Alex Blackwell
(New South Wales) 		Manuka Oval
Canberra, ACT

Team performance

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Team 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15
Australian Capital Territory 3rd 4th 5th 4th 4th (RU) 7th
New South Wales 1st (RU) 1st (RU) 1st (RU) 1st (C) 1st (SF) 1st (C)
Queensland 4th 6th 3rd 5th 3rd (C) 3rd
South Australia 5th 3rd 4th 7th 5th 5th
Tasmania 7th 7th 7th 6th 7th 4th
Victoria 2nd (C) 2nd (C) 2nd (C) 3rd 2nd (SF) 2nd (RU)
Western Australia 6th 5th 6th 2nd (RU) 6th 6th

Source:[31][32][33][34][35][36]

Legend
C = Champions; RU = Runners-up; SF = Semi-finalists; 1st = Ladder position after regular season

Statistics

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Most runs

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Player (Team) Mat Inns Runs HS Ave SR
Meg Lanning (VIC) 66 66 2087 82 40.13 123.86
Leah Poulton (NSW) 68 37 2011 103* 34.67 122.85
Alex Blackwell (NSW) 64 60 1915 99* 54.71 119.46
Elyse Villani (VIC) 65 64 1584 79* 31.06 107.83
Lauren Ebsary (WA, SA) 65 63 1514 85* 30.28 105.80

Most wickets

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Player (Team) Mat Overs Wkts Ave Econ
Jemma Barsby (QLD) 60 187.5 62 17.89 5.90
Erin Osborne (NSW) 60 204 61 17.77 5.31
Sarah Coyte (NSW) 59 182 54 19.19 5.69
Briana Binch (VIC) 65 182.1 54 20.54 6.09
Sharon Millanta (NSW) 57 162.3 49 18.31 5.52

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