Melbourne Stars Women set to face Sydney Thunder Women in match No. 38 of the Womens Big Bash League (WBBL) 2025 at the Junction Oval in Melbourne on Saturday, December 6.
Preview
In the 38th T20 match of the WBBL 2025, Melbourne Stars Women (MS W) are set to face Sydney Thunder Women (ST W). Melbourne Stars Women performed brilliantly in this season, winning five and losing three of the nine matches played so far, while losing two games. In the last match, unfortunately, they lost against the Sydney Sixers Women by 16 runs. Maia Bouchier performed well and scored 67 runs in 40 balls. But other batters failed to perform well.
On the other hand, Sydney Thunder Women didn’t have a good season this year as they won only three of the nine matches and lost five games. In the last match, they performed well and won by 23 runs against the Brisbane Heat Women. Phoebe Litchfield was the hero for them and scored 61 runs in 43 balls in the last game.
Match Information
Melbourne Stars Women vs Sydney Thunder Women, 38th Match
Women’s Big Bash League, 5 Dec 2025, Fri, 5:10 AM IST ,Melbourne
Probable PlayingXI
Melbourne Stars Women
MM Lanning, SK Maloney, ME Bouchier, DR Gibson, KJ Garth, A Sutherland(C), AE Jones, Rhys McKenna, ML Gibson, Sophie Day, G Prestwidge
Bench: Sophie Reid, Ella Hayward, M Kapp, Ines Mckeon, I Noble
Sydney Thunder Women
Phoebe Litchfield(C), L Harris, Anika Learoyd, HC Knight, Georgia Voll, L Finn, C Atapattu, T Wilson, S Ismail, T Peschel, EL Arlott
Bench: Hasrat Gill, Ella Briscoe, HJ Darlington, S Eve, S Bates, a Mavros, T French
Injury News – (Will be added when there is an update)
Pitch Report
Captains
Meg Lanning MS-W | bat – 9
Meg Lanning is currently in excellent form, scoring 431 runs in the last 10 matches at an average of 53 and a strike rate of over 140 in WBBL 2025. Apart from this, she scored a brilliant hundred and three fifties in this season.
Phoebe Litchfield ST-W | bat – 8
Litchfield is a brilliant batter who has given the team one-sided victories with her outstanding performance. In the last game too, she scored 61 runs against the Brisbane Heat Women. Moreover, she scored 234 runs in the last 9 games.
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Sophie Day MS-W | BOWL – 8
Sophie Day has been a consistent bowler. She has taken 17 wickets in the last 9 games. Moreover, Sophie also took two wickets in the last game against the Sixers Women.
Tahlia Wilson ST-W | WK – 8
Tahlia Wilson is in outstanding form, scoring 275 runs with an incredible average of 34 in the last 10 matches. She has already scored two fifties this season.
Budget
Kim Garth MS-W | all – 4
Kim Garth’s performance is constantly improving. She has taken 13 wickets in the last 9 games with an economy of 7.05. She also scored 17 runs and took a wicket in the previous match against the Sixers Women.
Shabnim Ismail ST-W | bowl – 8.5
Shabnim Ismail has been impressive with her bowling so far, taking 12 wickets in the last 9 matches this season. She also took a wicket in the last game against the Brisbane Heat Women.
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Sasha Maloney – MS-W | BAT – 7.5
Emily Arlott – ST-W | BOW L – 8.5
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