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WBBL Sydney Thunder v Sydney Sixers, 10 Dec 2017
Womens Big Bash League #WBBL03, Match 3
Sydney Thunder v Sydney Sixers
North Sydney Oval, 10 December 2017
Sydney Sixers won with 8 balls in hand
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WBBL Sydney Thunder v Melbourne Renegades, 9 Dec 2017
Womens Big Bash League #WBBL03, Match 1
Sydney Thunder v Melbourne Renegades
North Sydney Oval, 9 December 2017
Sydney Thunder won by 11 runs
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The grim trial of strength that went mainstream: women’s Test cricket
Before the Australian women’s cricket team played their touring England counterparts in Brisbane in December 1934, the following directive appeared in the Courier Mail:
No one in the press or elsewhere paid any attention to this instruction, and the first women’s Test match concluded at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground on New Year’s Eve 1934, the visiting English winning by nine wickets.
It’s taken 83 years for Australia and England to come together for their 49th women’s Test (plus one washed out), and their four-day meeting at North Sydney Oval beginning on Thursday 9 November 2017 was a special occasion as the first to be played as a day-night fixture. Continue reading “The grim trial of strength that went mainstream: women’s Test cricket”
Enjoyable claptrap, but you knew that
New South Wales v Queensland, Big Bash Trophy
North Sydney Oval, 8 January 2006
Queensland 167ao (17.3), NSW 5/168 (18)
New South Wales won by 5 wickets with 12 balls to spare
Scorecard
I attended my first Twenty20 game yesterday. While I won’t be hanging out for the second, there are plenty who will. And that’s a good thing. Continue reading “Enjoyable claptrap, but you knew that”