Well this got my attention… Holly Ferling says the ACA are pushing CA to explore “separate owners” for the men’s and women’s Big Bash teams 👀 (55:00 onwards)
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Raf Nicholson
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Women’s cricket historian & journalist. Sports Journalism lecturer at Bournemouth University & writer for Guardian Sport. Vice Chair of The Cricket Society.
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@rossno25.bsky.socialReposted by @rafnicholson.bsky.socialThis is the download link:
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@rafnicholson.bsky.socialDelighted that BBC TMS have released my interview with Dan Norcross & Alison Mitchell as a podcast.
We discuss my book The Women in Whites - plus how I discovered the archive of the WCA in a cowshed...
@rafnicholson.bsky.socialThat's true, but they shouldn't have signed off on the FTP in the first place. An FTP requires the agreement of all parties.
@rafnicholson.bsky.socialWell, exactly. I appreciate that we've got lucky in England because our peak season just happens to not clash with India's... but also, we can all do the maths, folks! There is a very clear reason January is no longer available for you to play bilaterals!
@rafnicholson.bsky.socialThis is an interesting one because it is so clearly linked to the rise of WPL, but no player is prepared to say the quiet bit out loud ("India run the global game & they shouldn't be able to run roughshod through our summer with their franchise comp, but CA refuses to stand up to them").
@rafnicholson.bsky.socialBig news on a Tuesday morning!
@rafnicholson.bsky.socialShame on you Ollie Pope, Luke Wood, Moeen Ali, Reece Topley, James Vince, Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Laurie Evans for caring more about the money in your own pockets than the human rights of women and girls. This was a personal choice by you, and you chose wrong.
@rafnicholson.bsky.socialWe shoot ourselves in the foot, don’t we?
@rafnicholson.bsky.social(Sorry, men of BlueSky. I'll balance this by saying I am married to a very kind man.)
@rafnicholson.bsky.socialWomen are kinder and more diligent. Who could have predicted this? 🤔
@rafnicholson.bsky.socialSuspect this is self-non-selecting. She was offered a pro deal by several Tier 1 counties but doesn't want it.
@rafnicholson.bsky.socialYesterday honestly feels like a massive missed opportunity by Middlesex to cross-promote their men's & women's teams. Example: this was posted about 2 hours after Saskia Horley's century. I guess we can argue about the definition of "List A" cricket but still a bit galling?
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@rafnicholson.bsky.socialThanks for flagging, I hadn't seen that. There we go then. It's essentially a different team with the same name.
@rafnicholson.bsky.socialMy understand is that at least half of the current squad are being moved on - either because they don't want to "go pro", or because they aren't considered good enough.
@rafnicholson.bsky.socialBased on this chart... somebody needs to produce a pink-and-yellow kit next season please 🙏
@rafnicholson.bsky.socialNightmare! And every time they change sponsor, all the road signs to the ground have to change too 😂
@rafnicholson.bsky.socialWhich sports organisation would want to erase a team who have just swept the board in terms of trophies? And yet this, it seems, is the world we currently live in. Some thoughts from me following yesterday's One Day Cup final: