Womens Test team of the 2010s
While many end-of-the-decade cricket reviews have named multi-genre womens teams of the 2010s, I have decided to drill down and select eleven women based upon the best Test performances of the decade. Why? To recognise an endangered, yet highly valued part of our sport. Highly valued that is, by those who play and follow Test […]
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 Scorecard https://www.instagram.com/p/Bcgit8iAjmB/
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 Scorecard https://www.instagram.com/p/Bcdupz2g-2J/
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, […]
A bit of light reading about the 1999-2000 England womens tour
England’s women’s cricket team headed to the Antipodes in January 2000 to play one-day internationals in Australia and New Zealand. By the time they were ready to head east across the Tasman, England had lost the ODI series to Australia 0-4 and Karen Smithies had resigned as captain. Working for Cricinfo at the time I […]
The birth of a women’s IPL should not be too far away – if the BCCI has enough willpower
The 11th Women’s Cricket World Cup, the third run by the ICC, was without doubt the most successful ever. The final was one of the most thrilling of any Cricket World Cup, female or male.
ICC Womens Cricket World Cup Final 2017, England v India
Highlights from the final of the eleventh Womens Cricket World Cup
A great English victory beckons
Something I thought I would never see, well not in this decade anyway, appears to be unfolding at New Road, Worcester, today. It’s lunch on Day Three of the Second Women’s Test between England and Australia. The visitors made 131 in their first innings. England, after being 227 for 9 at the close of the second day, […]
Worcester Test Day One
Nothing will stop me from cursing the England and Wales Cricket Board for their counterproductive policy of scheduling women’s tours simultaneously with the men. There’s an important, indeed, sudden-death women’s Test match going on at New Road, Worcester which is being totally eclipsed for media attention by the most riveting men’s Ashes series in almost […]
Two billion rupees
News just in via the Press Trust of India following the BCCI’s Working Committee meeting in New Delhi on Monday. The BCCI’s draft annual report and audited accounts for 2004-05 were presented. If they have been made public I’d love to see a copy, but PTI reports that the Board will distribute Rs.52 crore (that’s 520 […]