Ellyse Perry WBBL Profile: Stats, Records & Story

In the 2018/19 WBBL season, Ellyse Perry scored 778 runs. It was the leading tally of that tournament and remains the biggest single-season haul in the WBBL run chart. She won Player of the Tournament for it, and the Sixers still lost the final to Brisbane Heat by three wickets. That season sums up Perry in the WBBL: enormous output, and not always the trophy to show for it.

Ellyse Perry in the WBBL

5,100

Runs

49.04

Batting average, highest of the big run-scorers

Catches, the all-time record

Wickets

111

Highest score

199*

Record partnership with Healy

Perry has played 144 WBBL games and scored 5,100 runs at an average of 49.04, with 34 fifties and three hundreds. Her strike rate is 111.11, lower than most of the other stars here, but her average is the standout. She has also taken 72 wickets at 32.65 with an economy of 7.17, and her 67 catches are the most by any fielder in the competition.

Perry Against Mooney

WBBL career, Cricket Australia figures

Metric	Perry	Mooney
Matches	144	155
Runs	5,100	5,600
Average	49.04	46.28
Strike rate	111.11	126.3
Fifties	34	47
Hundreds	3	4
Sixes	82	42

The comparison shows two different ways to be a great batter. Mooney scores quicker and has hit more fifties across a longer career. Perry averages more and hits more sixes, and she also bowls and holds the fielding record. In fantasy terms Perry adds bowling and catching points where Mooney adds keeping points.

The Story So Far

Ellyse Perry, a WBBL timeline

WBBL|01

Captains the Sydney Sixers in the inaugural season.

WBBL|02 and |03

Sixers win back-to-back titles. Perry tops the WBBL|03 run chart with 552.

WBBL|04

Scores 778 runs and wins Player of the Tournament.

3 Nov 2019

Shares an unbeaten 199 with Alyssa Healy against Melbourne Stars, the highest partnership in WBBL history.

WBBL|10

Leads the run chart with 424 and shares Player of the Tournament with Jess Jonassen, the first time the award was split.

Nov 2024

Named captain of the WBBL Team of the Decade.

WBBL|11

Makes 111 against Adelaide Strikers and is picked in the official Team of the Tournament.

Cricket Australia describes Perry as arguably the best athlete in the country. She is a three-time Belinda Clark Award winner, the ICC Cricketer of the Decade, and a seven-time World Cup winner who has represented Australia at both the cricket and soccer World Cups. She became the youngest Australian to play senior international cricket when she debuted in July 2007 before her 17th birthday. Cricket Australia also reports she has now passed Karen Rolton to become Australia's leading Test run-scorer.

Trivia

Her 67 catches are an all-time WBBL record, which is rare for a player who also averages 49 with the bat.
In 2010 she bowled the last ball of the World T20 final against New Zealand and deflected Sophie Devine's drive to a fielder to secure the trophy for Australia.
She was the first woman to play 300 internationals for Australia.
Her Player of the Tournament award in WBBL|10 was shared with Jess Jonassen, the first time the award was split.

Perry in WBBL 2026 Season Fantasy

Perry is priced at 10 Cr and is classified as an all-rounder, so she earns points for runs, wickets and catches. She has stayed with the Sixers across her career, and Cricket Australia reported her long-term new contract before WBBL|11. She is also in Australia's ODI and T20I squads for the October home series, ending a week before the WBBL begins.

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Perry's catch record is a fantasy advantage that does not show on a scoreboard. A fielder who takes a catch every couple of games adds a steady stream of points that most batters cannot match.