Australia have now won all three editions of the championship, which was instituted in 2014 to grow the women’s game and has been instrumental in ensuring more women’s cricket tours over the past decade.

Lanning skippered Australia's all-conquering women's team for almost a decade, winning four Twenty20 World Cups, a 50-over World Cup and Commonwealth Games gold.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today met the members of the Australia and Bangladesh women’s cricket teams at her official residence Gono Bhaban today.

Bangladesh women's cricket team lost the third and final ODI against their Australian counterparts by eight wickets in Mirpur on Wednesday, losing the three-match series 3-0.

Speaking ahead of the upcoming ODI series against Bangladesh, Australia women's team captain Healy believed that the lessons learned in the recently concluded Women's Premier League (WPL) in India would benefit her side in Bangladesh.

World champions Australia women's cricket team arrived in Dhaka in the wee hours of Sunday for a first-ever series against Bangladesh.

The Australian team will arrive in Dhaka on March 17. The ODIs will be played on March 21, 24 and 27 respectively.

“We've got a couple of venues in Bangladesh that the World Cup will be played at so that will be part of the investigating during the tour.”

The 33-year-old has led Australia since June in series against England, Ireland and West Indies, and has now been handed the role full-time.

Australia made an amazing turnaround to win the final of the Commonwealth Games by nine runs to take home the gold medal.

Shakib Al Hasan continues his fine form in the Caribbean Premier League with a stellar all-round show that helped Jamaica Tallawahs subject St Kitts and Nevis Patriots to a crushing 108-run defeat.

West Indies Women beat Australia Women in the ICC Women's World Twenty20 final by 8 wickets at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India.