2017–18 Women's Big Bash League season
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The 2017–18 Women's Big Bash League season or WBBL|03 was the third season of the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL), the semi-professional women's Twenty20 domestic cricket competition in Australia. The tournament was scheduled from 9 December 2017 to 4 February 2018.[1][2]
Dates | 9 December 2017 (2017-12-09) – 4 February 2018 (2018-02-04) |
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Administrator(s) | Cricket Australia |
Cricket format | Twenty20 |
Tournament format(s) | Double round-robin and knockout finals |
Champions | Sydney Sixers (2nd title) |
Participants | 8 |
Matches | 59 |
Player of the series | Amy Satterthwaite (MLR) |
Most runs | Ellyse Perry (SYS) – 552 |
Most wickets | Katherine Brunt (PRS) – 23 Sarah Aley (SYS) – 23 |
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The final, held at Adelaide Oval, pitted the Sydney Sixers against the Perth Scorchers for the second season running. Sydney comfortably won the match by nine wickets to claim back-to-back championships.[3] Punctuating an emphatic comeback from retirement, Sixers medium-pace bowler Sarah Coyte managed figures of 4/17 in the decider and was named Player of the Final.[4]
Melbourne Renegades captain Amy Satterthwaite was named Player of the Tournament, although her team failed to qualify for the finals. Sixers captain Ellyse Perry was the leading run-scorer of the season, while the leading wicket-taker title was shared between the Sixers' Sarah Aley and the Scorchers' Katherine Brunt.