The ACT Meteors are the women's representative cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 team for the Australian Capital Territory

Australian Capital Territory

The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...

 and they compete in the Women's National Cricket League

Women's National Cricket League

The Women's National Cricket League is the national competition for women's cricket in Australia.The league competition involves the six member teams playing each other in two 50-over limited-over matches, with the side finishing at the top of the table after the preliminary rounds earning the...

. The Meteors were granted entry to the Women's National Cricket League for the 2009-10 season, they previously competed in the Cricket Australia Cup

Cricket Australia Cup

The Futures League is the Australian national second XI cricket competition. Run by Cricket Australia, it is part of its development program and includes the various state and territory second XI teams, for the 2009–10 season onwards the tournament was renamed the Futures League because a change of...

. The Meteors finish in third place in both competitions in their first season and finished third in the one-day compition in their second season and fourth in the Twenty20.

See also

• ACT Comets