T20 Spring Challenge

T20 Spring Challenge

Countries	Australia
Administrator	Cricket Australia
Format	Twenty20
First edition	2024
Next edition	2025
Tournament format	4 Matches per Team, then Knockout Finals
Number of teams	9
Current champion	Hobart Hurricanes
Most successful	Hobart Hurricanes (1 title)
Most runs	Lizelle Lee (252)
Most wickets	Nicola Hancock (10)
TV	Seven Network Fox Cricket
Website	www.cricket.com.au
Current season

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.^[1][2]

The competition began in 2024 and currently features eight Women's Big Bash League teams plus the ACT Meteors competing in a round-robin group stage. The competition runs before the Women's Big Bash League.^[3]

In July 2024, Cricket Australia introduces a new domestic Twenty20 Cricket event, called T20 Spring Challenge. that forms part of the Australia domestic cricket season. The league was aimed to make up for the absence of high-profile matches in Australia every year and to expose talented players from Country.^[4]

The league's structure is based on the structure of the WBBL.

Initially there are nine teams, with sides playing against each other in a double round robin format, and the four teams finishing with the most points entering the knockout-stage of the competition.

The first season of the league took place from 11 October to 20 October 2024, and featured 21 matches, all held at and in Sydney and Adelaide. Tickets were made available free to women during the first season.

Scorchers

Strikers

Heat

Hurricanes

Renegades

Stars

Sixers

Thunder

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Location of teams

Australia
Adelaide	Adelaide Sydney	Sydney
Karen Rolton Oval, Adelaide		North Sydney Oval, Sydney	Cricket Central, Sydney	Allan Border Oval, Mosman, Sydney

A summary of the most notable statistical records associated with the tournament is provided below:

• Source: ESPNcricinfo

In July 2024, Fox Sports, announced it had acquired the global media rights for TV and digital broadcasts for the tournament. The initial season of the league is broadcasting in Australia on the Fox Sports TV channel and the Kayo Sports app.^[1]

The first season of the competition was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sky Sports, in India by Fancode, in the United States and Canada by Willow TV and in South Africa by SuperSports, in New Zealand it is aired by Sky Sport NZ.