A winner of two ICC Women's Cricket World Cup trophies and five ICC Women's T20 World Cup titles, Lanning bows out of the game at the age of 31 having amassed more than 8000 runs across all formats for her country.
Australia skipper Meg Lanning is set to make her long-awaited return to the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) after she was included in Victoria's squad for their opening two matches against Western Australia in Perth on September 26 and 28.
Lanning sat out in Australia's recent Ashes series in England due to medical reasons and will remain sidelined through a pair of three-match white-ball contests against the West Indies at home at the start of next month.
Australian Women's team have suffered a huge blow ahead of the Ashes as the Aussie skipper Meg Lanning has been ruled out of the tour on Saturday morning.
This time the total number of women's contracts available has moved up from 15 to 18 under Cricket Australia's new MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the players.
Nat Sciver-Brunt's unbeaten half-century and tight spells from bowlers helped Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals by 7 wickets to become the inaugural champions of Women's Premier League 2023 (WPL)
Hayley Matthews and Issy Wong bagged three wickets each followed by Nat Sciver-Brunt's unbeaten on 60 off 55 balls guided Mumbai Indians to a seven-wicket win over Delhi Capitals in the final of the inaugural edition of Women's Premier League.
Meg Lanning scored the highest for DC with 35 runs off 29 deliveries while Radha Yadav and Shikha Pandey stitched up an unbeaten 52-run partnership to guide their team to a respectable total.