Channel Nine’s famed commentary team has found its newest member, with Meg Lanning set to join the cricket coverage this summer.

The Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars captain, who led her side to World Twenty20 glory earlier this year and has just completed comprehensive one-day and T20 series victories over Pakistan, will add a change of voice to the roster of Wide World of Sports regulars such as Ian Chappell, Mark Taylor, Michael Slater and Ian Healy.

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Lanning will join the broadcast team for October’s Matador BBQs Cup in Queensland and looks set to commentate on the men’s T20 Internationals against South Africa in October.

If the world champion skipper does appear for those fixtures, she is guaranteed to be very familiar with the conditions, with the Southern Stars taking on the West Indies on the same pitches only hours beforehand as part of a series of men’s and women’s doubleheaders at the Adelaide Oval, the MCG and Stadium Australia in Sydney.

Having dominated attacks all over the world, Lanning’s foray into the media will provide a new challenge for the 22-year-old and it’s one she says she is more than ready to tackle.

“I’m looking forward to it,” Lanning told cricket.com.au. “I do watch a lot of sport, especially cricket, and I’m interested in journalism so I do tend to know a fair bit.

“I was speaking to Cricket Australia and they mentioned there might be an opportunity (to commentate) so I had a casual meeting with Channel Nine.

“I watch a lot of cricket, so it will be good.”

Not unfamiliar with blazing a trail in her field, having been named Australia’s youngest captain, male or female, earlier this year, Lanning told cricket.com.au that she hopes there will soon be a time that female appointments to the commentary team aren’t considered out of the ordinary.

“Hopefully it becomes the norm,” she said. “I think it’s a natural progression moving forward.

“(Cricketers-turned-commentators) Lisa Sthalekar and Mel Jones have had a little bit to do with it in the past so it’s good that I had the opportunity to follow on from them.

“I think females, especially those that play, have a lot to offer the viewers in terms of interest.

“They offer a different (type of) player’s insights into the game.”

With the most recent National Cricket Census reporting an increase in female participation of 39 per cent in 2013-14, Ben Amarfio, Cricket Australia’s Executive General Manager - Media, Communications & Marketing, is excited by the opportunity Lanning’s appointment presents.

"We're delighted that Nine's giving Meg an opportunity in a commentary role,” Amarfio told Fairfax Media.

"We want cricket to be a sport for all Australians, so it's important that we reflect that in everything we do, including our broadcast of the game.”

Channel Nine head of sport Steve Crawley agrees, citing the Southern Stars’ recent ICC World Cup success and World T20 three-peat as clear indicators that the time couldn’t be more right.

"The Australian team is the best in the world,” he told Fairfax Media.

“They've won everyone's respect, and she (Meg) has a vibrancy about her, too.

“Meg came along with a wonderful attitude to her cricket, a wonderful reputation and style of play.

“Immediately you could tell she was special off the field and on the field.

“The majority of our commentators are like her – they've captained Australia or vice-captained Australia.

“You'd like to think one day Michael Clarke will be sitting up there, he's got the pedigree for it and so does she."