Sister team for Strikers in new Women’s BBL

James Sutherland says he sees T20 as the premium format of the woman's game. Source: CAS Hamish Blair / News Limited

CRICKET Australia will launch a women's Big Bash League next summer following the wild success of the men's domestic Twenty20 format.

The planned WBBL competition will align eight women's teams with the existing BBL franchises.

Teams will play under the same names as their male counterparts, meaning the South Australian women's side, for example, will also be known as the Adelaide Strikers.

A schedule is yet to be determined but the change is unlikely to lead to women's matches being curtain-raisers before every men's match. SA's Scorpions twice played Adelaide Oval curtain-raisers at Strikers games this summer while the women's T20 final was played before the BBL final at Manuka Oval.

Australian women's cricket has featured a Twenty20 competition for the past seven summers, but has been based on traditional state lines rather than the modern city-franchise phenomenon.

The move to mirror men's and women's competitions means an ACT Meteors side formerly part of the women's Twenty20 competition will no longer feature in the shortest format.

Cricket Australia also conceded the concept left uncertainty over the structure Women's National Cricket League one-day competition. In men's domestic cricket, the 50-over format has been reduced to a Sydney-based carnival that effectively serves as a pre-season tournament.

The expansion to a WBBL is also likely to more broadly spread talent across shorter-format women's cricket. New South Wales and Victoria have dominated the 50-over game since it became a national competition in 1996-97. NSW has won 17 of the 19 titles, including this season's final against SA, while Victoria has won the other two and featured in 10 losing finals.

"We see T20 as the premium format of the women's game and the WBBL is an exciting concept that will increase the promotion and exposure of women's cricket," CA chief executive James Sutherland said.

"We want cricket to be the number one sport for girls and women in Australia."

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