LET’S BREAK DOWN GENDER DIVIDE AND ALL BE BATTERS

@izzywestbury

Strong views: Melanie Jones, here interviewing David Warner, wants cricket to be more inclusive

There was a time when anyone who played cricket, and held a bat, was a man. By definition therefore, they were all “batsmen”. As cricket evolved, and diversified, however, women entered the scene.
This emergence had the potential for disruption – no longer was it only men wielding bats. Yet the opportunity for women to play the game increased only slowly over the ensuing decades; women remained firmly in...