Welcome to the women’s section of Port Adelaide where you can find all the details you need about our teams - including news, results and match reports - and how to join us.

We run three teams in grade cricket, South Australia's pathway to state and international honours - only three other clubs field teams in all three grades. Each of our sides has had success in both the one-day and 20-over competitions and we were the first club to win the leagues in all three divisions in the same year. View club statistics and premierships.

We are always very keen for new players of any age and experience, no equipment is required.

We are a diverse playing group who aim for good results but also to have fun! You’re welcome to join us at a training session on Wednesdays (for seniors) or Fridays (for juniors).

Training nights: Wednesdays from 5.30pm at Port Adelaide Cricket Club, Baynes Place.

For further information and player enquires please contact:

Mark Thamm - Women's Cricket Coach
Phone: 0414 647 807
Email: markt@customwines.com.au

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Latest Womens News

The Port Adelaide Women's teams have started the season with new coach Mark Thamm, a new training regime and a totally new and innovative outlook to the game. Firstly, our girls have taken on board two of our young State players, Ashleigh Homes and Blythe Schembri as co-vice captains. 

The girls will take control of the A Grade team whilst Captain Karen Rolton is away performing her State duties. They will also gain valuable leadership experience from Karen under her Captaincy in the local one day and T20 competition. 

We are also looking forward to a new International partnership with Singapore Women's Cricket. Two Singaporean women are heading down under to play for us to gain valuable experience to take back with them to assist in the development of a Singapore Women's competition.

We hope to build on last years efforts and go 'One Step Further' - combining our wealth of experience with the development of the players of the future and take out Premierships across the three grades. Stay tuned for an exciting season.

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Port Adelaide A Grade Women WIN the Twenty20 Grand Final at Adelaide Oval!

A Grade Women’s Twenty20 Grand Final
Port Adelaide V Kensington
Sunday February 14 2010 at Adelaide Oval

Women’s Twenty20 Cricket is a 9 a side competition in South Australia.

Port Adelaide Innings

Kensington’s Sarah Jameson won the toss for the Grand Final and chose to field. Caroline Johnston and Rebecca Pollard opened the batting for Port Adelaide...

5 overs – 0/24
10 overs – 0/71
15 overs – 0/115
20 overs – 1/181

Caroline Johnston n.o. 81 off 64 balls in 73 minutes. 11 - 4’s
Karen Rolton n.o. 22 off 9 balls in 7 minutes.  4 -  4’s
Rebecca Pollard 65 off 65 balls in 65 minutes.  8 -  4’s

Kensington Innings

Sarah Moriarty and Hayley Smith (15 year old) of Port Adelaide opened the bowling.
Hayley took a wicket with her first ball. 

5 overs – 4/15
10 overs – 5/33
15 overs – 5/72
20 overs – 7/93

Rebecca Pollard 2/18 – 4 overs
Hayley Smith 2/21 – 4 overs
Ashleigh Homes (16 year old) 0/11 – 4 overs
Rebecca Pollard – direct hit run out

Port Adelaide Team: Karen Rolton (C), Rebecca Pollard, Caroline Johnston (wk), Sarah Moriarty (coach),
Ashleigh Homes, Amy Worswick, Kate Rush, Hayley Smith, Nicole Murphy & Rachel Thamm.

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Port Adelaide A Grade – One Day Game Round 11 V Tea Tree Gully

Sunday February 21 2010 – Pertaringa Oval (Tea Tree Gully)

50 Over Competition
Tea Tree Gully’s Steff Morrison won the toss and batted.
All out in 46th over – 157 runs
Karen Rolton – 3/22
Rebecca Pollard – 3/40

Caroline Johnston and Rebecca Pollard opened the batting for Port
Caroline Johnston – caught in 7th over for 12 with the score on 53
Karen Rolton joined Rebecca Pollard in the middle

At the conclusion of Port’s 50 overs the score was a massive 1/422

Rebecca Pollard 124 n.o. 14 – 4’s off 131 balls in 189 minutes
Karen Rolton 236 n.o. 15 – 6’s & 25 – 4’s off 140 balls in 162 minutes

Each six Karen hit was bigger than the previous one!!!

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ROLTON SQUAD

The Freeman Rolton Academy launched in season 2009/2010,
following the success of the Port Adelaide Academy last season which
provided an opportunity for talented junior cricketers from within the
Port area to be involved in a coaching program with other talented
players from the area.

The Academy will has 2 squads with the Rolton Squad being for girls
aged between 10 & 16 years of age who are either playing cricket already
or want to get involved in the sport with a fun, game based program that
involves skill development but the focus is on having fun in a game based
training format which encourages maximum participation from all the
Academy members. The program will run for 8 weeks and begin in early
October. Dates to be confirmed. All current PACC junior girls will be invited
to join the Academy along with other interested girls from within our area.

Full name Karen Louise Rolton
Born November 21, 1974, Adelaide, South Australia
Teams Australia Women, South Australia Women, Port Adelaide
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Left-arm medium

Karen Rolton started playing cricket when she was in primary school with kanga cricket and then for her school Wandana Primary school. In year 7 she made the Prospect Shell Shield team in which she was the only female playing cricket with the boys. From then she discovered that women played cricket as she joined the Olympic Women’s cricket club. Karen played at Olympic for several years and was very successful. Eventually Olympic merged with another women’s team and they joined the Adelaide Cricket Club. After a few years there Karen moved to the Port Adelaide Cricket Club where our women’s teams have been very successful over a long period of time.

Karen also played men’s cricket for 4 years which was a fantastic experience for her and increased her development. Karen was 14 when she first played State Cricket, when she made the U/18 State team and then progressed to the State U/21 team when she was 17. From there she made the Senior State team during season 1994/95 and this is when Karen made her debut for the Australian Women's Cricket Team. Karen was awarded the Vice Captaincy in 1997 and later became Captain of the Australian Women’s Cricket Team in 2006.

Karen Rolton has played in 4 World cups, playing in 3 finals and winning 2. She recently captained Australia in the recent World Cup in Sydney. Karen has been named Women’s International Cricketer of the year 4 times, in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006. She was also named the ICC Women’s player of the year in 2006.

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