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2016–17 Melbourne Stars WBBL season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ41671543 ↗
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The 2016–17 Melbourne Stars WBBL season was the second in the team's history. Coached by David Hemp and captained by Meg Lanning, the team competed in the WBBL|02 tournament.

At the conclusion of the group stage, the Stars were fifth on the ladder, and were therefore eliminated.

Squad

The following is the Stars women squad for WBBL|02. Players with international caps are listed in bold.

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Ladder

The top four teams qualified for the play-off phase.

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“2016–17 Melbourne Stars WBBL season” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Melbourne, Stars and WBBL can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “2016–17 Melbourne Stars WBBL season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.