India Ladies’s Workforce Captain Harmanpreet Kaur (Credit score: Twitter)
That India had not hosted a single take a look at in 9 years till this month mirrored the fact that one-off checks solely typically make up the numbers in multi-format bilateral ladies’s worldwide sequence.
Two mouth-watering clashes in and round Mumbai this month involving the “Large Three” have whetted the urge for food for extra take a look at matches within the ladies’s recreation and a minimum of one cricket administrator has mentioned he’s pushing the thought.
Ladies’s checks have at all times been a rarity with solely 147 performed within the practically 90 years since England confronted Australia within the first, they usually have turn out to be even scarcer since white-ball cricket began to dominate the sport.
That India had not hosted a single take a look at in 9 years till this month mirrored the fact that one-off checks solely typically make up the numbers in multi-format bilateral ladies’s worldwide sequence.
That could possibly be about to vary after India, cricket’s monetary powerhouse, received ladies’s checks in opposition to England and Australia in December to spark renewed curiosity within the longest format.
“We didn’t get that many alternatives within the take a look at format however hopefully the brand new era will get many extra video games,” captain Harmanpreet Kaur mentioned after India’s record-breaking victory over England.
Recognized for her power-hitting and aggressive manner, Kaur is without doubt one of the crowd-pullers within the ladies’s recreation however has performed simply 5 checks in her 14-year worldwide profession.
Kaur’s English counterpart Heather Knight, who has performed lower than a take a look at a yr since her worldwide debut in 2010, mentioned the will for the ladies’s take a look at recreation to flourish even formed England’s method to the sport.
“We at all times really feel as gamers once we play take a look at cricket that we’re preventing for the format slightly bit,” Knight mentioned earlier than the match in opposition to India.
We need to make it entertaining and thrilling for individuals to look at as a result of we would like take a look at cricket to hold on.”
Australia captain Alyssa Healy has performed eight checks within the 13 years since she first performed worldwide cricket, a paltry quantity in comparison with the 119 her uncle Ian featured in throughout his 11-year spell carrying the dishevelled inexperienced cap.
Even when Australia suffered their first ever loss to India in a ladies’s take a look at at Wankhede Stadium, Healy mentioned the sport had been an “wonderful expertise” and known as for take a look at sequence slightly than one-off video games.
“It will create an actual contest over three video games,” Healy mentioned.
“That might be an unbelievable expertise for our group, and doubtless a real take a look at of each side’ skills.”
Her phrases haven’t fallen on deaf ears.
Cricket Australia chief government Nick Hockley mentioned he remained a “robust advocate” of girls’s checks and noticed sense in three-test sequence in opposition to groups like England and India.
“We’ll hold advocating for extra take a look at cricket as a part of multi-format sequence,” Hockley informed SEN on Wednesday.
“Possibly that’s one thing sooner or later that we will take into consideration key marquee sequence going to a few checks.”
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