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The Aussie can float in the batting order. She can hit hard. She can bowl her off- spin in the power play. She can bowl at the death. She is just about as com- plete a package as you can get in T20 cricket. At $ 3.2 crore, she was the jaint most expensive overseas buy at the auction – for a reason.

The coach is an Australian. The teams two biggest buys are Aussies and there are another two from down Under but there, Gujurat Giants just went for the best players at the auction and Australia happened to be, by some distance, the best women’s cricket team on the planet. The latest proof of the came on Sunday at cape Town, where Australia won it’s sixth Women’s T20 world cup.

No other team in the WPL has as strong an Australia flavour. The Giant’s in fact, spent ₹5.2 crore nearly half its purse – on two Australian stars. When you look at the quality and current from of the duo you may not actually want to call it overspending – Ashleigh Gardner was named best player of the T20 world cup in south African, while beth mooney was player of the final.

Mooney is a phenomenonal batter. She is remarks bly consistent, averaging 52.45 in ODI and 40.51 in T20ls. Not many can pace an innings the way she doe’s : case in point being the innings on the slow track in the world cup final . A day after her heroics mooney was named the Giants captain line-up are the batting lineup are the west Indies most capped woman international deandra dottin, sophia Dunkley from England and the Indian pair of s. Meghana and D Hemalatha

Dottin, who as if taking a cue from some of the male Caribbean players has retir from international cricket but continues to appear in league’s across the world, is a ferocious hitter and handy with her seam bowling. The team has also roped in another overseas seaming all rounder in the from of Annabel Sutherland.