In our weekly feature in the ins and outs in women's sport, England head coach Phil Neville has named his squad for the upcoming friendlies while the Rugby World Cup is going gender neutral.
A week in the world of women's sport
Cricket
The Western Storm are still the pace-setters in the Kia Super League as they have made it nine wins from nine matches by thrashing the Surrey Stars by 77 runs in their last outing.
After being asked to bat first, the Storm smashed their way to 171 for four with New Zealand international Rachel Priest hitting 89 from 55 balls and England's Heather Knight contributing a 48-ball 51.
The Stars were then bundled out for 94 with Sonia Odedra doing most of the damage with her four for 24.
Loughborough Lightning are second in the standings, but 12 points adrift of the leaders, as they handed the bottom-placed Lancashire Thunder their eighth defeat of the season.
The Thunder opted to bat first, but they were bowled out for 122 as Jenny Gunn and Sarah Glenn each claimed three wickets before Lightning opener Amy Jones hit 66 from 52 balls to set up the eight-wicket victory.
The performance of the weekend came from Jemimah Rodrigues as her unbeaten 112 helped the Yorkshire Diamonds to a last-ball win over the Southern Vipers in a high-scoring game.
After being asked to bat first, the Vipers posted a solid 184 for four with openers Suzie Bates (47 from 39 balls) and Dani Wyatt (42 from 20 balls) laying the foundation.
But Rodrigues led the chase with a brilliant 112 from 58 balls to earn her side the win, but it wasn't enough as the Vipers had already secured their spot in finals day along with the Storm and Lightning.
On the international scene, Australia Women have announced their squad for West Indies tour and the uncapped Heather Graham and Erin Burns have been included in the 14-member touring party.
They replace Elyse Villani and Sophie Molineux while Nicole Bolton, who was also part of the Ashes squad, was unavailable for selection.
"These selections reinforce our desire to select players with a view to the T20 World Cup next year, who offer versatility, can play a designated role and offer skills in a number of different facets of the game," national selector Shawn Flegler said.
Australia squad: Meg Lanning (captain), Rachael Haynes (vice-captain), Erin Burns, Nicola Carey, Ashleigh Gardner, Heather Graham, Alyssa Healy (wk), Jess Jonassen, Delissa Kimmince, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Tayla Vlaeminck, Georgia Wareham
Football
Four uncapped players have been included in the England squad for the friendlies against Belgium and Norway.
Bethany England (Chelsea), Aoife Mannion (Manchester City), Sandy MacIver (Clemson University) and 20-year-old Anna Patten (University of South Carolina) are the newcomers in Phil Neville's 24-player squad.
Manchester City trio Jill Scott, Ellen White and Karen Bardsley have been left out with Scott rested and the latter two missing due to injury.
"They are probably going to have a period of time on the sidelines," Neville said of White and Bardsley.
"They won't be in the first one or two camps, the second one is too close. They are big players for us, their performances in the summer were outstanding, so we'll miss them and their experience for the next two or three camps.
"Injuries are part of football, they've just got to get back as quickly as they possibly can."
For your information, the BBC will broadcast the Lionesses matches against Belgium and Norway live.
Golf
The automatic spots for the 2019 United States Solheim Cup have been confirmed with Brittany Altomare, Angel Yin and Annie Park joining Lexi Thompson, Nelly Korda, Danielle Kang, Lizette Salas, Jessica Korda, Marina Alex and Megan Khang on Juli Inkster's team.
Altomare qualified from the Solheim Cup points standings while Yin and Park booked their tickets via the Rolex Women's World Golf Rankings.
"I am really happy with my 10 players right now, the problem is I have more players who deserve to be on the team than I have spots available," Inkster said.
"That is always the most difficult part of being captain - calling those players who played well enough to be going to Scotland but who won't make the trip. I owe it to the other 10 players to give them the best teammates possible, the ones who will give them the best chance to win. Are my picks going to be perfect? I don’t know."
Inkster will unveil her two captain's picks in New York City on Monday.
South Korea's Ko Jin-young was the big winner over the weekend as she secured her sixth LPGA title with victory at the CP Women's Open in Ontario.
Ko carded a tournament record 26-under 262 to finish five shots ahead than Broch Larsen.
Over on the Ladies European Tour, Carly Booth from Scotland ended her title drought as she won her first trophy in seven years at the Czech Open.
Booth carded a two-under-par 70 in the final round to finish on nine under par, one shot ahead of England's Charlotte Thompson and Hayley Davis, and Finland's Sanna Nuutinen and France's Anais Meysonnier.
"I was so surprised," Booth said after winning her third LET title.
"I holed my par putt and came off the last hole and had no idea I had won. After seven years, to finally get another victory is amazing."
Netball
England will take on South Africa in a three-match series in November with the tests taking place in Cape Town - the venue for the 2023 World Cup.
The Roses beat the Proteas in the bronze medal match at the recent World Cup in Liverpool.
"They have proven themselves to be one of the top teams in the world with their highest ever finish at the recent Vitality Netball World Cup," England head coach Jess Thirlby said.
"These are just the type of opportunities that we need exposure to as a Roses team early in our four-year cycle.
"Playing back to back high-pressure test matches away from home will be a fantastic challenge which we will learn much from," added Thirlby, who joined as England coach from Superleague side Team Bath.
The matches will take place on November 29 and 30, and December 1.
Rugby
World Rugby has announced that it is scrapping gender titles in World Cup tournaments and the Women's Rugby World Cup 2021 in New Zealand will become the first to be rebranded as it will be known as Rugby World Cup 2021.
"Unintentional gender bias in sport is an ongoing issue," World Rugby Chairman Sir Bill Beaumont said. "As a global sporting federation we need to be leading from the front on the issue of equality.
"By adopting gender balance in the naming of men's and women's Rugby World Cup competitions, we are setting new standards in equality in rugby."
Tennis
The final Grand Slam of the year, the US Open, gets underway at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Monday and you can keep track of the live scores and results pm our sister site Tennis365.com.
By Shahida Jacobs
Tagged in Women's Sport