{"id":269520,"date":"2025-11-07T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/269520\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:20:09","slug":"wbbl-2025-26-alyssa-healy-injury-ellyse-perry-alana-king-laura-wolvaardt-jemimah-rodrigues-set-to-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/269520\/","title":{"rendered":"WBBL 2025-26: Alyssa Healy injury, Ellyse Perry, Alana King, Laura Wolvaardt & Jemimah Rodrigues set to feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of Australia’s star-studded squad will be featuring in the 2025-26 Women’s Big Bash alongside some big overseas stars. <\/p>\n

Australia captain Alyssa Healy will again play for Sydney Sixers, although she has been ruled out of the first game through injury. <\/p>\n

All-rounder Ash Gardner was announced as Sixers captain on Friday. They are coached by former England men’s white-ball coach Matthew Mott and have New Zealand all-rounder Melie Kerr is their star overseas player.<\/p>\n

Tahlia McGrath captains Adelaide Strikers and she is joined by South Africa opener Laura Wolvaardt. <\/p>\n

Wolvaardt’s compatriot Marizanne Kapp is at Melbourne Stars, who have Australia’s Annabel Sutherland as their captain and former skipper Meg Lanning in their ranks. <\/p>\n

India’s Jemimah Rodrigues, fresh from her epic century in the World Cup semi-final<\/a>, is the star attraction at Brisbane Heat alongside South Africa’s Nadine de Klerk and West Indies’ Chinelle Henry. <\/p>\n

West Indies all-rounder Deandra Dottin is back at Melbourne Renegades, while New Zealand’s Sophie Devine will captain a Perth Scorchers side that includes leg-spinner Alana King. <\/p>\n

Phoebe Litchfield will lead Sydney Thunder again, with Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu and South Africa’s Shabnim Ismail part of their roster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All of Australia’s star-studded squad will be featuring in the 2025-26 Women’s Big Bash alongside some big overseas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-269520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}