FILE PHOTO: Cricket - Women’s Ashes - First IT20 - England v Australia - The Cloudfm County Ground, Chelmsford, Britain - July 26, 2019 Australia's Meg Lanning celebrates reaching her century Action Images via Reuters/Peter Cziborra
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Despite their dominance on the world stage, Australia's women cricketers have long toiled in the shadow of the national men's team but with the T20 World Cup kicking off on home soil this week they will finally have the limelight all to themselves.
Meg Lanning's side are bidding for a fifth trophy in six editions of the biennial event, their reign only briefly interrupted by West Indies in 2016 when they finished second.
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