Women's Big Bash League
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| Countries |
 Australia
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| Administrator | Cricket Australia |
| Format | Twenty20 |
| First tournament | 2015–16 |
| Last tournament | 2016-17 |
| Next tournament | 2017-18 |
| Tournament format | Double Round-robin and knockout finals |
| Number of teams | 8 |
| Current champion | Sydney Sixers (1st title) |
| Most successful |
Sydney Sixers Sydney Thunder (1 title each) |
| Most runs | Meg Lanning (1068) |
| Most wickets | Sarah Aley (47) |
| TV | Network Ten and One |
| Website | bigbash |
The Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) is the Australian women's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition.
The WBBL replaced the WNCL Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup, which ran from the 2007–08 season through to the 2014–15 season. The competition features eight city-based franchises, branded identically to the franchises in the men's Big Bash League. A number of matches during the competition's inaugural 2015–16 season were broadcast by Network Ten, a free-to-air network. The naming rights sponsor for the WBBL is Rebel Sport. The current champions are the Sydney Sixers.
In early 2014, the formation of an international women's Twenty20 competition, based around the franchise model of the Indian Premier League was announced. Headed by former Australian cricketer Lisa Sthalekar and Australian businessman Shaun Martyn, it was proposed that the six teams, based in Singapore, would all be privately owned, and players earning over $US40,000 per season.
There was strong support from top female players for the concept, and support was sought from the International Cricket Council, while former international cricketers Geoff Lawson and Clive Lloyd were on the board of the organisation.
The concept was dealt a blow in early June, when the England and Wales Cricket Board announced that they would refuse to release centrally contracted English players. At the same time, Cricket Australia announced it would also refuse to release its players for the tournament. Both organisations expressed concern that the tournament was not being centrally run by a national cricket board, but a private company.
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