Gold medallists' next challenge after Games celebrations

Australia's top players will get to march in Monday's Commonwealth Games closing ceremony, but for most, the celebration will be the briefest of breaks before they are back in action this week.

The national women's side will not play again until their five-game T20 tour of India in December, but 11 members of the gold-medal winning squad have contracts for The Hundred, where the women's tournament will kick off on Thursday after the men's began last week.

Alyssa Healy will make her debut for the Northern Superchargers in that opening game at The Oval, playing alongside Tasmania allrounder Heather Graham against Oval Invincibles.

Ellyse Perry will continue to call Edgbaston home and will link up with allrounder Sophie Molineux and former Aussie assistant-turned New Zealand coach Ben Sawyer at Birmingham Phoenix.

Southern Brave will have a strong Australia flavour with Tahlia McGrath, Amanda-Jade Wellington and Molly Strano, as will Trent Rockets with Meg Lanning, Alana King and Elyse Villani, and Welsh Fire with Nicola Carey, Rachael Haynes and Annabel Sutherland.

Beth Mooney and Megan Schutt will get to call Lord's home as they join forces at London Spirit.

Image Id: 3B02045BC7114A5693AEF579D00887F6 Image Caption: Eleven of Australia's 15-player Comm Games squad will take part in The Hundred // Getty

"I'm no spring chicken so doing something new is going to be really refreshing and I'm looking forward to it," Schutt said after Australia beat India to claim the gold medal on Sunday.

"It'll be actually really cool to play (a different format) outside of Cricket Australia or ICC rules."

The four Commonwealth Games squad members who are not part of The Hundred – Ashleigh Gardner, Darcie Brown, Grace Harris and Jess Jonassen – will return home to re-join their state squads ahead of the start of the one-day domestic season on September 23.

The eighth edition of the Weber WBBL will run from October 13 to November 27, with Australia's T20 squad to depart for India shortly after, with the schedule for the five-game series yet to be confirmed.

Australia next play on home soil in January, where they will host Pakistan in three ODIs and three T20Is, before they travel to South Africa for the 2023 T20 World Cup which will run from February 9-26.

Australians at The Hundred 2022

Women

Birmingham Phoenix: Sophie Molineux, Ellyse Perry

London Spirit: Beth Mooney, Megan Schutt

Northern Superchargers: Heather Graham, Alyssa Healy

Southern Brave: Tahlia McGrath, Molly Strano, Amanda-Jade Wellington

Trent Rockets: Alana King, Meg Lanning, Elyse Villani

Welsh Fire: Nicola Carey, Rachael Haynes, Annabel Sutherland

Men

Birmingham Phoenix: Kane Richardson, Matthew Wade

London Spirit: Nathan Ellis, Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell, Ben McDermott

Manchester Originals: Sean Abbott, Ashton Turner

Oval Invincibles: Hilton Cartwright

Southern Brave: Tim David, Marcus Stoinis

Trent Rockets: Daniel Sams

Welsh Fire: Adam Zampa