IS there anyone I can sue? All those years of feeling excluded after bowling six dot balls in a row and it being called a ‘Maiden’.
Oh the torment for all that effort to be given a word of feminine gender. I don’t know if I’ve ever truly got over it. I jest, of course, yet MCC seem deadly serious about becoming gender neutral, replacing batsman with the word ‘batter’ in their latest draft of the Laws of Cricket.
Both they and the champions of pettifogging reckon it will make the game more inclusive but you’d have to be pretty narrow-mind...