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Kate Chandler is used to playing cricket with the boys, but the Wellington teen has the chance to star amongst the best young women cricketers in the world at the inaugural U19 T20 World Cup next month, Merryn Anderson writes.

As the White Ferns go into their final game of 2022, Melie Kerr tells Kristy Havill how she's surprised herself this year, and how she hopes her video series on mental health will have saved at least eight lives.

From podiums, to pay parity, paddle wars to poi, 2022 has been quite a year for our sportswomen. LockerRoom writer Sarah Cowley Ross lines up her 22 highlights. 

Six years on from the report revealing the dire state of women's cricket in NZ, an update shows the game to be much healthier - but with still much work to do to achieve equity, Suzanne McFadden writes.

As the White Ferns track towards their next pinnacle event, players have their last chance to make their mark on the domestic scene. Merryn Anderson chooses one player from each Super Smash side to star this season.

The White Ferns have a new spin bowling coach heading into the T20 World Cup, who reckons their young spin attack could become world-leading. Merryn Anderson reports. 

Bernadine Bezuidenhout was so sick while playing for the White Ferns, her body started to shut down. But now she’s back stronger, with the help of a Silver Ferns legend. And she tells Suzanne McFadden how she’s found balance in her life, helping at-risk youth through sport.

In a new role created to help future generations of White Ferns, double international Liz Green wants to ensure cricket continues the upswing of momentum for women's sport in NZ.

In a string of firsts, Black Fern Helen Mahon-Stroud was the first NZ women’s rugby captain, who scored the first try in the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1991.

As cricketing teen Aniela Apperley begins making her mark on the game, she could be in line for two World Cups in three months - starting with next month's indoor cricket worlds.

In a week where both the Silver Ferns and White Ferns seek revenge over their Caribbean rivals, their encounters on opposite sides of the globe become more and more curious.