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2026-27 Women's Big Bash League Betting Preview
The 2025-26 cricket season of the Women's Big Bash League will be the twelfth tournament and will also be known as WBBL12.
There will be plenty of pre-season to get these players ready this season. The T20 Spring Challenge will take place for a third tournament. It was created to fill the absence of high-profile matches in Australia, and the Hobart Hurricanes are back-to-back winners.
Heading into the new season, the Hobart Hurricanes will be the defending champions, having won their first-ever title in 2025. This was a vast improvement on previous seasons, having never made the final before, but can they back up that win?
Could they join the list of dual winners of the WBBL, which features the Adelaide Strikers, Brisbane Heat, Sydney Sixers and Sydney Thunder? Could one of those four make it a record-breaking third this season?
Remember that throughout the season, the OLBG Cricket Tipsters will be making predictions on every match; these will include match winner and top scorers for both of the participating teams.
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Women's Big Bash League Teams
Here are the eight teams heading into the new season of the WBBL. The two Melbourne teams (Renegades & Stars) share their home ground at the CitiPower Centre in St Kilda, Victoria.
| Team/Venue | Coach/Captain |
|---|---|
| Adelaide Strikers Karen Rolton Oval | TBA TBA |
| Brisbane Heat Allan Border Field | TBA TBA |
| Hobart Hurricanes Blundstone Arena | TBA TBA |
| Melbourne Renegades CitiPower Centre | TBA TBA |
| Melbourne Stars CitiPower Centre | TBA TBA |
| Perth Scorchers WACA Ground | TBA TBA |
| Sydney Sixers North Sydney Oval | TBA TBA |
| Sydney Thunder Blacktown ISP Oval | TBA TBA |
Past Women's Big Bash League Winners
Of the eight Women's Big Bash League teams, seven have been crowned champions, which, considering there have only been eleven previous seasons, shows that this is a competitive tournament.
Four teams have been crowned champions twice, Sydney Sixers, Brisbane Heat & the Adelaide Strikers, all winning back-to-back championships, whilst the Sydney Thunder are the other dual winners.
The Perth Scorchers (WBBL07), Melbourne Renegades (WBBL10) and Hobart Hurricanes (WBBL11) are the other teams to have won the championship, which leaves just the Melbourne Stars as the only winless team.
| Season | Champions | Leaders |
|---|---|---|
| 2015–16 (WBBL1) | Sydney Thunder | Meg Lanning (560 runs) Rene Farrell (26 wickets) |
| 2016–17 (WBBL2) | Sydney Sixers | Meg Lanning (503 runs) Sarah Aley (28 wickets) |
| 2017–18 (WBBL3) | Sydney Sixers | Ellyse Perry (552 runs) Katherine Brunt (23 wickets) |
| 2018–19 (WBBL4) | Brisbane Heat | Ellyse Perry (778 runs) Heather Graham (22 wickets) |
| 2019–20 (WBBL5) | Brisbane Heat | Sophie Devine (769 runs) Molly Strano (24 wickets) |
| 2020-21 (WBBL6) | Sydney Thunder | Beth Mooney (551 runs) Sammy-Jo Johnson (22 wickets) |
| 2021-22 (WBBL7) | Perth Scorchers | Beth Mooney (547 runs) Amanda-Jade Wellington (23 wickets) |
| 2022-23 (WBBL8) | Adelaide Strikers | Beth Mooney (434 runs) Megan Schutt (27 wickets) |
| 2023-24 (WBBL9) | Adelaide Strikers | Beth Mooney (557 runs) Sophie Day (27 wickets) |
| 2024-25 (WBBL10) | Melbourne Renegades | Ellyse Perry (424 runs) Alana King (20 wickets) Samantha Bates (20 wickets) |
| 2025-26 (WBBL11) | Hobart Hurricanes | Beth Mooney (549 runs) Georgia Wareham (19 wickets) |
WBBL Team Historical Records
The table below shows the record of each team in the WBBL since the tournament's creation.
Women's Big Bash League Team Records and Statistics
What is the highest team total in the WBBL?
The highest score in the WBBL came in 2017 when the Sydney Sixers set the Stars 243 to win and things didn't start great for the Sixers, they lost Healy for just four runs, however, Perry and Gardner put on a 150 partnership, Perry finished the innings 91 not out from 49 balls and Gardner was dismissed for 114 from just 52 balls, a strike rate of over 219%, the team finished the innings with a run rate of 12.10 and figures of 242/4.
The two-hundred run mark has only been breached eleven times during the history of this tournament. The closest anyone got to the record was the Heat in 2023, when they scored 229; the Thunder have hit 200+ four times during their history.
What is the lowest team total in the WBBL?
It was an embarrassing day for the Stars in 2023 when they set the lowest score in the history of this tournament. They were set 178 to win by the Strikers; however, not a single Stars player got into double digits, and the team were bowled out for a total of just 29 with Dunkley top scoring with 9!
That is by far the lowest total, with the next being 42, which was achieved in 2025 by the Sixers. In total, ten teams have scored sub-80. Of the bottom fourteen lowest scores, the Renegades (x4) appear the most and then the Hurricanes (x3).
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What is the largest victory by runs?
There have been four games which have finished with a victory of over 100 runs, and top of the pile are the Strikers with their 148-run victory over the Stars in the already mentioned match, when the Stars were bowled out for 29.
The other three matches saw the Stars beat the Sixers in 2025 by 111 runs, the Scorchers defeat the Renegades by 104 runs, and the Sixers beat the Hurricanes by 103 runs; the Scorchers also beat the Hurricanes by 98 runs, giving them two of the top four largest victories.
What is the largest victory by wickets?
There has been a total of ten victories by ten wickets, which means the team chased down the target without losing a single wicket, and six of those ten targets were over 100 too.
From those ten matches, the Scorchers appeared four times chasing down targets of 141, 135, 98 & 134 without losing records; the other teams were the Renegades (x2), Heat (x2) and the Sixers (x2).
Women's Big Bash League Batting Records and Statistics
Who is the all-time leading run scorer in the WBBL?
The all-time leading run scorer in the WBBL before the 2026-27 season is Beth Mooney, who in 154 innings has picked up a total of 5,600 runs, which is an average of 46.28 and a strike rate of 126.29. She has ended 33 innings not out, she has hit four centuries and forty-seven half-centuries, finding the boundary 703 times with 661 fours and 42 sixes, she is only one of two players to have passed the 5,000 run mark, with Ellyse Perry being the other.
Top Five Women's Big Bash League Run Scorers
- 5,600 Runs - Beth Mooney
- 5,101 Runs - Ellyse Perry
- 4,195 Runs - Sophie Devine
- 3,841 Runs - Elyse Villani
- 3,646 Runs - Meg Lanning
Who set the highest-scoring innings?
There have been plenty of 100+ innings from the players over the years, with thirty-one in total. The highest of those came from Lizelle Lee in 2024 when she scored 150 not out for the Hurricanes against the Scorchers, which came from just 75 balls, a 200 strike rate with twelve fours and twelve sixes during her seventy-nine minutes at the crease.
The closest to her is Grace Harris, who during the 2023 season hit 136 not out for the Heat against the Scorchers with an impressive 230.50 strike rate. Meg Lanning went close to the top two when, during the 2025-26 season, she hit 135 against the Stars.
Top Five Women's Big Bash League Six Scorers
- 155 Sixes - Sophie Devine
- 108 Sixes - Lizelle Lee
- 92 Sixes - Ashleigh Gardner
- 90 Sixes - Grace Harris
- 82Sixes - Ellyse Perry
Women's Big Bash League Bowling Records and Statistics
Who is the all-time leading wicket-taker in the WBBL?
Jess Jonassen tops the list for most wickets taken in the WBBL. She has taken 184 wickets in her 153 matches, and her best figures have been 4/13. In fact, she has taken a four-wicket haul a total of seven times! Her economy is 6.65, her average is 19.56, and her strike rate is 17.63.
Heading into the 2026-27 season, she is currently twelve wickets clear of Molly Strano, who is in the second spot and nineteen ahead of Amanda-Jade Wellington back in third.
Top Five Women's Big Bash League Wicket Takers
- 184 Wickets - Jess Jonassen
- 172 Wickets - Molly Strano
- 165 Wickets - Amanda-Jade Wellington
- 157 Wickets - Heather Graham
- 150 Wickets - Megan Schutt
Top Five Women's Big Bash League Economic Bowlers (100+ Overs)
- 5.38 - Katherine Sciver-Brunt
- 5.71 - Marizanne Kapp
- 5.92 - Kristen Beams
- 6.03 - Megan Schutt
- 6.11 - Lea Tahuhu
Contributor Information
We take great pride in the information provided in our cricket betting previews, and the Women's Big Bash League Preview & Betting Guide is no exception. James and Andy work seamlessly together to collate and present the data in this superb guide to this event.
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Records were sourced from ESPN cricinfo and past winners and team information from Wikipedia.
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