Both WBBL Veterans and Emerging Talent Headline the Player-Voted ACA WBBL10 All-Star Team

19-year-old Chloe Ainsworth and 21-year-old Georgia Voll join a group filled with Australian and international superstars to have been voted by their peers into the WBBL10 ACA All-Star Team.

The 2024-25 edition of the Women’s Big Bash League has been a special one.

WBBL10 has marked ten years of one of the best domestic competitions in the world. A mix of Australian heroes, international superstars, and up and coming young guns, makes up an exceptional pool of talent.

The rise of the Women’s Big Bash League has without a doubt been a significant factor in Australia’s dominance at T20 level on the international stage, with our Aussie women winning six out of nine T20 World Cups since the inaugural World Cup in 2009.

The ultra reliable Ellyse Perry has been voted as captain of the side, making her eighth appearance in the player-voted all-star team. She finished her campaign with 424 runs, the most out of anyone in the league, also taking six wickets.

Beth Mooney has been voted in as the wicketkeeper for the seventh time, taking her total of player-voted appearances in the ACA WBBL All-Star team to nine out of ten, including two as a batter. No one has more runs in WBBL history than Beth Mooney, who showed no signs of slowing down in her 10th season, finishing with 386 runs, 2 catches and 5 stumpings.

Beth Mooney agreed that ten years of WBBL is pretty special, saying:

“It's been amazing to reflect on how far we've come in ten years of the WBBL, being the best domestic competition in the world.

“I am looking forward to seeing what the next ten have in store!”

19-year-old Chloe Ainsworth and 21-year-old Georgia Voll provide some youth in this otherwise very experienced side.

In only her second Big Bash season, Ainsworth starred for the Scorchers, picking up some huge wickets - including Meg Lanning and Annabel Sutherland in the same over - and did so economically, with her 5.8 runs per over, one of the best rates in the competition.

Chloe was grateful to be selected by her teammates and opponents.

She said, "To be picked in a team next to players as good as the likes of Beth Mooney and Alana King, by all the other players - it doesn't get much cooler than that, and I'm very grateful."

Georgia Voll enjoyed a run-filled campaign, with two scores in the 90’s on her way to over 300 runs in her first season with the Thunder.

Sam Bates bounced back with a career-best year. One of multiple players voted in to this year’s All-Star team that has been involved in all ten WBBL seasons. Sam took 19 wickets, behind only Scorchers leg-spinner Alana King, whose 20 wickets also gained her selection into this side.

Renegades captain Sophie Molineux returned from a serious injury, and didn’t miss a beat on her way to being voted in to the All-Star team. Quite an impressive feat considering she only played just over half of the season, with 15 wickets and 134 runs from her six games enough to propel her into the team.

International stars Lizelle Lee and Hayley Matthews make their first appearance in the player-voted team, with Heather Knight making it for the second time, as these three proved to be the best of the imports.

As the Melbourne Renegades face the Brisbane Heat at the MCG, in what’s set to be an amazing finish to a spectacular season, the winner will be crowned champions of WBBL10 on Sunday afternoon.

The 2024-25 WBBL10 All-Star Team of the Year is:

Beth Mooney WK

Georgia Voll

Lizelle Lee

Ellyse Perry C

Hayley Matthews

Heather Knight

Sophie Molineux

Alana King

Chloe Ainsworth

Sam Bates

Megan Schutt

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