Australia women's national cricket team
| Nickname | Southern Stars | |||||||||
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| Association | Cricket Australia | |||||||||
| Personnel | ||||||||||
| Test captain | Alyssa Healy | |||||||||
| One Day captain | Alyssa Healy | |||||||||
| T20I captain | Sophie Molineux | |||||||||
| Coach | Shelley Nitschke | |||||||||
| History | ||||||||||
| Test status acquired | 1934 | |||||||||
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| ICC status | Full member (1909) | |||||||||
| ICC region | East Asia-Pacific | |||||||||
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| Tests | ||||||||||
| First Test | v England at Brisbane Exhibition Ground, Brisbane; 28–31 December 1934 | |||||||||
| Last Test | v India at WACA Ground, Perth; 6–8 March 2026 | |||||||||
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| One Day Internationals | ||||||||||
| First ODI | v Young England at Dean Park Cricket Ground, Bournemouth; 23 June 1973 | |||||||||
| Last ODI | v India at Bellerive Oval, Hobart; 1 March 2026 | |||||||||
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| World Cup appearances | 12 (first in 1973) | |||||||||
| Best result | Champions (1978, 1982, 1988, 1997, 2005, 2013, 2022) | |||||||||
| T20 Internationals | ||||||||||
| First T20I | v England at County Ground, Taunton; 2 September 2005 | |||||||||
| Last T20I | v India at Adelaide Oval, Adelaide; 21 February 2026 | |||||||||
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| T20 World Cup appearances | 9 (first in 2009) | |||||||||
| Best result | Champions (2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2023) | |||||||||
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| As of 8 March 2026 | ||||||||||
The Australian women's national cricket team, formerly known as the Southern Stars, represent Australia in international cricket. Currently captained by Alyssa Healy and coached by Shelley Nitschke, they are the top team in all world rankings assigned by the International Cricket Council.
Australia played their first Test match in 1934–35 against England. The two teams now compete biennially for the Women's Ashes. A rich history with New Zealand stretches back almost as far while strong rivalries have also developed more recently with India and the West Indies, manifesting predominantly via limited overs cricket. In the 50-over format of the game, Australia have won more World Cups than all other teams combined—capturing the 1978, 1982, 1988, 1997, 2005, 2013 and 2022 titles. They have achieved similarly emphatic success in Twenty20 cricket by winning the ICC Women's T20 World Cup in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020 and 2023.
In 2003, Women's Cricket Australia (WCA) and the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) merged to form a single governing body, known as Cricket Australia (CA), which remains to this day. CA has expressed a major goal of the organisation is for cricket to be Australia's leading sport for women and girls, citing the performance and exposure of the national team—which is heavily dependent on its increasingly professional domestic structures, namely the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) and the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL)—as a key factor to achieving such an aspiration.
A survey conducted by TrueNorth Research in April 2020 showed the national women's cricket team have the strongest emotional connection with Australian sports fans.