Women’s cricket has produced just as much needle and history as the men’s game, even if broadcasters took far longer to catch up. For fans exploring LiveSportsOdds cricket coverage and looking to follow more of the women’s calendar, understanding these rivalries adds real context to why certain fixtures draw bigger crowds and sharper odds shifts than others. Here are five match-ups worth knowing.
1. The Women’s Ashes (England vs Australia)
The Women’s Ashes, contested between England and Australia, is the oldest rivalry in the women’s game. It’s played across a multi-format points system today, combining a one-off Test with ODIs and T20Is to decide an overall winner, but the historic weight behind an Ashes fixture, whatever the format on a given day, gives it a different atmosphere to almost any other bilateral series.
2. Australia vs India
Australia versus India has become one of the most compelling rivalries of the last decade. The two sides first met in Test cricket back in 1977, when women’s international cricket was still finding its feet, and the rivalry’s early years were lopsided: Australia’s total of 525 at Ahmedabad in 1984 remains their highest score against India and a reminder of how one-sided the fixture once was. It’s the recent contests that have really raised the stakes, though, including a tense 2025 ODI World Cup semi-final in Navi Mumbai. That same year, during a preparatory ODI series against Australia, Smriti Mandhana scored the fastest century ever made by an Indian batter, in either the men’s or women’s game, off just 50 balls, while the two sides also combined for a record aggregate of 781 runs in a single women’s ODI.
3. India vs Pakistan
India versus Pakistan carries all the political and historical weight of the men’s fixture, even if it hasn’t always received the same spotlight. Head-to-head records have historically tilted heavily towards India across both formats, but the occasion itself, playing your closest geopolitical rival on cricket’s biggest stages, has always mattered more to players and fans than the scoreline alone, and matches between the two are still treated as must-watch fixtures whenever a World Cup draw throws them together.
4. Australia vs West Indies
Australia versus West Indies produced one of the great T20 World Cup finals back in 2016, a tense finish at Eden Gardens built around half-centuries from Ellyse Villani and Meg Lanning that’s still cited as one of the tournament’s best matches. It’s a reminder that rivalries in the women’s game aren’t confined to the traditional Ashes and India-Australia axis, and that knockout cricket has a habit of throwing up classics from fixtures that don’t always get billed as historic rivalries beforehand.
5. WPL’s Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capitals
Domestic rivalries have joined the mix too, with the Women’s Premier League building its own fierce match-ups since launching. Mumbai Indians versus Delhi Capitals is a good example, heading into the WPL’s fourth edition in early 2026 locked at four wins apiece, a genuinely even contest that’s produced some of the league’s tightest finishes.
These rivalries matter because they’re what turns a group-stage fixture into appointment viewing. They’re exactly the sort of storylines femalecricket.com’s rundown of the WPL head-to-head battles does well to track.
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