GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Such a great contest. It sabotaged the plans I had for the morning
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2023–24 Australian women's summer
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Shady Slim
International Coach
the rise of the wbbl has been such an awesome story and it’s been said before but for all their faults, CA has done a great job boosting the women’s game
partnering it with the men’s game at first but now really the women’s game is a force of its own and can stand by itself like the wbbl has here and it’s just awesome
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Was talking about this with my wife this morning while we watched it. The way The Hundred does it has lots of pros for the women’s game but for weekday games does leave them playing in front of tiny crowds often. Giving them their own slot probably carries some downside but also a lot of focus? Crowd seemed good anyway
Shady Slim
International Coach
yeah so for us, cricket australia has spent years really building the womens game as a standalone thing with genuine top effort things. so it was a couple years ago the wbbl started slightly before but ran alongside a big part of the mens bbl, and what you'd get is, a lot of games would be wbbl 2-6ish and then the mens at 7 or so using the same stadium, and with your men's ticket you'd get free entry to the wbbl. stuff like that's super good because especially for the weekend games, really make a day of it and crucially the kids get engaged with the wbbl stars and get their favourites. further crucial to this was and is wbbl games on free to air tv.
added to this is, frankly, social media accounts for all the bbl teams really forced the wbbl down the throats of their audience too. that term is obviously pejorative when it's used generally, but i'm using it in a good way, to say, like, even when the wbbl was way waaaaay smaller, bbl socials for clubs would be posting just as much hype and coverage of wbbl stuff as the men's league, such that if you wanted to follow the sixers or thunder or whoever on facebook, like it or not you're going to be learning about their wbbl side as well, which, for most of the sport's fans who aren't raging ***ists but who'd otherwise give the women's game a miss, it really put it on the map for them too.
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So Healy gets the captaincy.
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Healy looks to 'reset and refresh' Australia for new era of success
Her captaincy appointment had been expected and was ratified on Friday, with Tahlia McGrath named vice-captain
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really?
Molehill
Cricketer Of The Year
I'm wondering where 499 sits in the list of all time first innings leads? Could be a pretty large innings win too. Not sure why SA have been so poor, there shouldn't be this much between the teams.
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I think Kapp's absence has been huge for them, and once Wolvaardt fell for 4 in the first innings, there probably weren't too many names in the rest of that batting line-up that would have worried Australia.
ataraxia
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More to the point, this is the highest team total in women's tests, and it also looks like it will release NZ from this ignomonious record-setting defeat.
vs New Zealand, nearly 30 years ago, in a virtual washout with less than 8 overs of play.