T20 Spring Challenge

The T20 Spring Challenge is the Australian women's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition in Australia.organised by the Cricket Australia. The first edition of the tournament took place in 2024.

T20 Spring Challenge

Countries	Australia
Administrator	Cricket Australia
Format	Twenty20
First edition	2024
Next edition	2025
Tournament format	Double round-robin and knockout finals
Number of teams	9
TV	Seven Network Fox Cricket
Website	www.cricket.com.au

Establishment

On 19 January 2014, former Australian national team captain Belinda Clark revealed the planning for a women's Big Bash League (BBL) was in its early stages, with CA keen to take advantage of the rising popularity of women's cricket and the success of the men's BBL in its first season on free-to-air TV. On 19 February 2015, Cricket Australia announced that a Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) would commence in 2015–16, with teams aligned to the current men's competition. Each team's first player signing was unveiled at the official WBBL launch on 10 July 2015.

Teams

Scorchers

Strikers

Heat

Hurricanes

Renegades

Stars

Sixers

Thunder

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Location of WBBL teams

Team		Location	Home ground	Coach	Captain	Titles won
	Adelaide Strikers	North Adelaide, South Australia	Karen Rolton Oval	Luke Williams	Tahlia McGrath
	Brisbane Heat	Albion, Queensland	Allan Border Field	Ashley Noffke	Jess Jonassen
	Hobart Hurricanes	Bellerive, Tasmania	Blundstone Arena	Dan Marsh	Elyse Villani	0
	Melbourne Renegades	St Kilda, Victoria	CitiPower Centre	Simon Helmot	Sophie Molineux	0
	Melbourne Stars	St Kilda, Victoria	CitiPower Centre	Jonathan Batty		0
	Perth Scorchers	East Perth, Western Australia	WACA Ground	Shelley Nitschke
	Sydney Sixers	Moore Park, New South Wales	North Sydney Oval	Charlotte Edwards
	Sydney Thunder	Sydney Olympic Park, New South Wales	Blacktown ISP Oval	Trevor Griffin