{"id":592955,"date":"2026-04-08T07:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592955\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:33:08","slug":"changes-made-as-australia-reveal-womens-contract-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/592955\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes made as Australia reveal women&#8217;s contract list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cricket Australia\u2019s Head of Performance (Women\u2019s Cricket) and National Selector, Shawn Flegler, highlighted the inclusions and continuity within the group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to see Lucy Hamilton and Chloe Ainsworth earn their first national contracts, which is a testament to the impact and talent they\u2019ve shown at domestic level, while Nicola Carey retains her recent upgrade after some strong performances over the last two series.<\/p>\n<p>While Tayla and Tess aren\u2019t on the list this year, we\u2019ll continue to support their development and they are both very much still in contention for selection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Australia face a packed calendar that includes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/womens-t20-worldcup-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026<\/a> in England, alongside home series against Bangladesh and New Zealand, and away tours to Sri Lanka and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a major ICC event and several key series coming up, we\u2019re confident this group has the skill and depth to perform, while also creating opportunities for others to push into the squad across the year,\u201d Flegler added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket Australia\u2019s Head of Performance (Women\u2019s Cricket) and National Selector, Shawn Flegler, highlighted the inclusions and continuity within&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,95836,95846,95842,95845,95843,1950,95844,95841,95847,95853,95852,95833,7301,95851,95835,95834,90626,95839,95840,95849,85,95848,95850,95838,95831,95837],"class_list":{"0":"post-592955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-cricket-breaking-news","12":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","13":"tag-cricket-live-score","14":"tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","15":"tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","16":"tag-cricket-match-result-today","17":"tag-cricket-match-today-live","18":"tag-cricket-news","19":"tag-cricket-results-today","20":"tag-cricket-scorecard-live","21":"tag-cricket-series-updates","22":"tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","23":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","24":"tag-cricket-world-news","25":"tag-icc","26":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","27":"tag-international-cricket-live-score","28":"tag-international-cricket-news","29":"tag-latest-cricket-news","30":"tag-latest-cricket-scores","31":"tag-live-cricket-match-update","32":"tag-odi-cricket-live-score","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-t20-cricket-live-score","35":"tag-test-cricket-live-score","36":"tag-today-cricket-live-score","37":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","38":"tag-todays-cricket-match-score"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592955","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=592955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}