Holly Ferling

Maddinson has signed a three-year deal and Ferling a one-year contract

Cricket Australia and the players committed to providing more than AUD30 million to help the lower levels of the game in a significant outcome for two competing sides

Sidelined by an elbow problem for close to a year, the Australia fast bowler wants to utilise the Women's National Cricket League to push her case for national selection

Australia Women pacers Julie Hunter and Holly Ferling are undergoing rehabilitation for injuries picked up at the Women's World T20 in March-April in Bangladesh

In the women's game, West Indies, Pakistan and Ireland stamped their authority on the field, while Australia, New Zealand and South Africa made significant progress off it

Australia took firm control of the Ashes Test, reducing England to 159 for 6 on the second day, but Heather Knight kept the home side fighting and on track to avoid the follow-on

In 12 months, 17-year-old quick Holly Ferling has gone from playing club cricket with her younger brother to impressing on the biggest stage in the women's game

Holly Ferling, a gangling, giggling fast bowler, all of 17, found out she was playing an important World Cup match against the old rivals after the woman she idolizes is ruled out unfit