Women's Cricket Thread

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Bulgy? 7th one, right? G_B might prefer the coach. :winky: BTW, awesome job with the thread. :good:

Yeah sorry 7th one ... Bulgy as in its like hanging out cause of some hanky or towel I guess.

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The Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars (Australia Women)have recorded a 116-run win over England Women’s A in a two-day tour match at Radlett Cricket Club.

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Bangladesh Women’s cricket team to tour South Africa this September

BCB is giving priority on women’s cricket in both domestic and international track. BCB has decided that the national women’s cricket team will visit South Africa to play 3 ODIs and 3 T20s on September next. Beside that, BCB is planning to invite India women’s cricket team on December-January schedule as well. There is also some good news for the women’s cricketers as the number of contracted players under the Board has been increased to 20 from 15. The Club Cup tournament will be started from 26 or 27 June. Twelve clubs from Dhaka have confirmed their participation in the tournament. All these information were revealed at the meeting of BCB Women’s Wing held on Sunday.

http://news.priyo.com/2013/06/18/women-s-cricket-team-tour-south-africa-september-79169.html

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Zimbabwe cricketer goes missing in Ireland

The Irish Police is searching for a Zimbabwe cricketer, Sharyce Saili, who went missing after the ICC Women's World Twenty20 qualifiers, which concluded in Dublin last week. Saili, who has played 26 matches for Zimbabwe since 2008, was last seen in the team's hotel shortly after their Shield final against Thailand on July 31. Saili, a right-arm fast bowler, was booked to fly home last Friday morning, but was reported missing. The Garda Siochana - the Irish Police force - says it has found no trace of the cricketer. Zimbabwe finished sixth of the eight teams in the qualifiers after losing to Thailand. It was soon after that game that Saili was last seen in Croke Park Hotel, where all the teams and officials were staying. Saili, who is a salesperson in her hometown Harare, finished second on the wicket-takers list, taking seven wickets in five matches, including a career-best 3 for 15 against Japan. Saili has not updated her Facebook page since her disappearance. On the day she was last seen, she posted the following message: 'A strong woman is one who is able to smile this morning like she wasn't crying last night.'

This is height of irresponsibility on the part of the organisers. :facepalm:

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England Announced Squads for Women's Ashes

Test Match Squad

Charlotte Edwards (Kent) (Captain), Tammy Beaumont (Kent), Arran Brindle (Sussex), Katherine Brunt (Yorkshire), Lydia Greenway (Kent), Jenny Gunn (Nottinghamshire), Danielle Hazell (Yorkshire), Heather Knight (Berkshire), Laura Marsh (Kent), Natalie Sciver (Surrey), Anya Shrubsole (Somerset), Sarah Taylor (Sussex), Lauren Winfield (Yorkshire), Danielle Wyatt (Nottinghamshire)

Ashes ODI squad

Charlotte Edwards (Kent) (Captain), Tammy Beaumont (Kent), Arran Brindle (Sussex), Katherine Brunt (Yorkshire), Holly Colvin (Sussex), Georgia Elwiss (Sussex), Lydia Greenway (Kent), Jenny Gunn (Nottinghamshire), Danielle Hazell (Yorkshire), Heather Knight (Berkshire), Laura Marsh (Kent), Anya Shrubsole (Somerset), Sarah Taylor (Sussex), Lauren Winfield (Yorkshire)

Ashes T20I squad

Charlotte Edwards (Kent) (Captain), Tammy Beaumont (Kent), Arran Brindle (Sussex), Katherine Brunt (Yorkshire), Holly Colvin (Sussex), Natasha Farrant (Kent), Lydia Greenway (Kent), Jenny Gunn (Nottinghamshire), Danielle Hazell (Yorkshire), Laura Marsh (Kent), Natalie Sciver (Surrey), Anya Shrubsole (Somerset), Sarah Taylor (Sussex), Danielle Wyatt (Nottinghamshire)

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:hatsoff: Carnish For Maintaining and Updating all your threads So well

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:hatsoff: Carnish For Maintaining and Updating all your threads So well

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:two_thumbs_up: for this thread

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The PCB, in a press release, said today that Najam Sethi has approved cash awards to the Pakistan men's and women's teams that have recently won laurels in the West Indies and England, respectively. PCB has announced Rs 4,00,000 each for Misbah, Zulfiqar Babar, Umar Akmal and Shahid Afridi for their performances in West Indies and 2,00,000 each for every member of the team and 1,00,000 each for the team officials and support staff. It decided to award Pakistan women's squad Rs 1,00,000 apiece, while the team officials to be given Rs. 50,000 each. So much Partiality :headshake:

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New Zealand Cricketer Katie Perkins graduates Police College

White Ferns batsman Katie Perkins has a new title to go by – Constable Katie Perkins. The 25 year-old will be one of 40 graduates of the Royal New Zealand Police College in Wellington today, having recently completed a strenuous 18 week course in Porirua. That hard work has certainly paid off for her though, coming first in her class in Physical Training and Defensive Tactics Strategy and first overall in Defensive Tactics across all three areas (strategy, driving and weapons). She will graduate second top in her class overall. The talented right-hander decided on her path in 2008, after a Police Officer came to her church as a guest speaker. Perkins admits that the job of balancing cricket and study has been tough though and wouldn’t have been achievable without support. â€The reality is that the balance hasn’t really been there the last 18 weeks,†said Perkins. “Police College was more intense than I expected and left little time for cricket. Luckily I’ve had the support of my coaches Katrina Keenan (White Ferns) and Haidee Tiffen (Auckland Hearts) who have encouraged me to focus on my studies and really helped me get through. “I’ve still done what I can when I can in terms of playing and managed to attend the White Ferns camp in Lincoln last month which was great. Cricket is my passion, and representing my country is the best feeling. To balance being the best cricketer I can be with the best police officer I can be is my challenge, but one I am ready for.†Perkins was recently selected in the White Ferns side to tour West Indies in October and is confident that she will be able to make the trip despite her new role.

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Australians get early control in women's Ashes Test

AUSTRALIA'S women are off to a strong start in the Ashes, with Sarah Elliott smashing an unbeaten 95 runs on the first day at Wormsley. She helped Australia cruise to 3-243 off 100 overs at stumps in good conditions at the most quintessentially English of cricket grounds in Buckinghamshire. Elliott dominated the day, anchoring Australia's innings after the tourists won the toss and elected to bat on a fairly flat wicket. “The bowlers, I thought, did a great job bowling really tight lines,†Elliott said after a 320-minute stint at the crease. “The pitch definitely had a bit in it early, which is really exciting for our bowlers, but then it's a really great pitch once you're in, I think it's a great opportunity to cash in.†The 31-year-old, whose last match for Australia was the Women's Ashes Test in January 2011, will resume strike on day two with Alex Blackwell, who's on 29. Anya Shrubsole, impressive on debut in front of a crowd of more than 2000, was the pick of the England bowlers with the early scalp of Rachael Haynes. She went for 10 after starting to look comfortable at the crease. Australian opener Meg Lanning notched up 48, including eight boundaries, before being run out shortly after lunch, when Katherine Brunt caught her out with an excellent throw from the deep. Brunt also had solid performance with the ball, with the fast bowler allowing just 28 runs from her 18 overs. Jess Cameron reached a half century in the afternoon session, but the Australian's celebration was short-lived after being trapped leg before the next ball to spinner Laura Marsh, who was the other solitary England wicket taker. Cameron smashed 10 boundaries on her way to a scintillating 50. But it was Elliott who stole the show with 13 boundaries and a display of great patience. “I'm really really pleased to be back in the team,†she told reporters after the game. “It's a great group to be around.†Despite Australia's dominance with the bat, medium pace bowler Shrubsole is optimistic England can come out on day two and get early wickets. “It's a good pitch to bat on, but I think we can be really pleased with the way we've bowled and kept them to less than two and a half an over on what is a fairly flat pitch,†she said. “We expect that the Australians might come out quite hard and try to up that run-rate, so the opportunity for wickets will increase.â€

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/cricket/australians-get-early-control-in-womens-ashes-test/story-e6frg7rx-1226695446471

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38 posts out of 53 in this thread are mine ... :hysterical: No bloody one is interested :cantstop:

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Who care about women cricket?Meh

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Women's Ashes: Stoic Heather Knight rescues England as records tumble

The biggest prejudices regarding women's international cricket concern lack of pace and slow scoring, so it is unfortunate that the solitary Test of the year is being played on a pitch guaranteed to produce both. "It's the sort of wicket when once the ball goes soft and the bowling is straight, it's hard to get it away. All you can do is concentrate, wait for the bad ball and put it away when it comes along," said Heather Knight, whose 157 was the third highest score by an England player against Australia, and the seventh highest against any opposition. Which for three minutes under seven hours, is exactly what the opener did, ensuring England first avoided the follow-on (which at 113 for six on the second evening had looked almost impossible) before getting to within 17 runs of first-innings parity, and in so doing almost certainly securing a draw. It was, unfortunately, the sort of day for statistics. Laura Marsh's half century was an admirable effort but it occupied 291 balls, with the Kent all-rounder's first boundary being struck off her 225th delivery. This on a ground with a very fast outfield. In terms of slowness, Marsh's innings is believed to be second only to Trevor 'The Barnacle' Bailey's 350-ball 50 in Brisbane in 1958-59. Together Knight and Marsh added 156 for the seventh wicket, only one short of the world record and an England best by a long way, and by the time Knight was run out – it had long looked the only way she was likely to be dismissed – England were only 57 runs adrift. In the circumstances it was impossible to understand the Australia captain Jodie Field's decision to delay taking the new ball, which was available six overs into the day, until fully 26 overs had been bowled. Even more so that she kept her two outstanding young fast bowlers, Elysse Perry and Holly Ferling, flogging the soft ball into the slow pitch. "We were hoping to get a wicket and then take the new ball but it didn't play out the way we were hoping," said Australia's vice-captain, Alex Blackwell. "Both sides are still keen to get a positive result but it's obviously going to be difficult with one day left. We'd have to set them a target they'd fancy chasing." Given the format of the series, however, which awards the winner of this Test six points and the winners of the three one-day internationals and three T20 matches which follow two points per victory, neither side will want to risk defeat. "I like the new system, the way it tests the teams across all formats, but six points is a lot and you're aware that if you lose then two more losses and that's it," said Blackwell. Asked if it would be better if in the future (such as in Australia next January, when these teams will meet again using exactly the same format) the Test was scheduled at the end of the series, Blackwell said it is worth thinking about. "If we played long-form cricket more often maybe we'd be a bit gutsier, but with so much at stake both sides are understandably being careful," said Blackwell.

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The Ashes that's not on your TV sets

The male Australian batting collective hangs together as robustly as those early-20th-century balsa-wood flying machines. There they go, lurching forward valiantly, with a patched-up propeller, a wing and a prayer, heading for the edge of the cliff, surging into the air, wobbling, dipping, straining aloft; then, just when you think they've cracked it and you can feel the cheer rising in your throat, the whole contrivance turns rudder over strut and ends up in a sad-looking heap of debris and despondency. Australia's women, on the other hand, can bat for long periods of time without suffering a collective panic attack, as Raf Nicholson reminded us recently. I wanted to watch the only women's Ashes Test, but sadly no television broadcasters are covering it, and the only footage I could find was the official ECB highlights. Surprisingly there was no charge for watching the official ECB highlights. Hopefully I am allowed to talk about the official ECB highlights without stumping up a royalty payment, but if I disappear mid-paragraph, you know that Giles Clarke's secret police have tracked me down. The highlights are a little basic; a throwback to a world where Kerry Packer didn't exist, and one camera was all the camera you were entitled to. Not being able to see ball, bat or pad at the moment of truth creates an anguished uncertainty for the viewer, and reminds us how tough commentary-box speculation must have been in the old days. "I wonder if the fielding side will refer that, Ray?" "They may do, looked like it hit him in the leg." "Which leg, do you think?" "Hard to say at this stage, but one of them certainly." "Well here comes the replay. The ball leaves the bowler's hand and… disappears completely behind the batsman's body. Not too conclusive from that angle." "I think by the way he's leaning, I'd say it's hit him on one of his thighs, possibly a knee, or maybe somewhere on his left or right shin." "The third umpire is having another look at it, but to be honest, I'm not sure there's enough to overrule the on-field umpire. Yes, as we expected, he's not out; the 57th consecutive time that's happened. I do wonder whether this system needs a little tweaking." "Tony, if we had more cameras, we'd get these decisions right every time." Watching cricket from the wrong direction is a little like reading the book instead of going to see the film. You have to rely greatly on your imagination, particularly when, as in the highlights from Wormsley, the camera is unable to pan left and right either, so most catches take place off stage, like a murder in a Shakespearean sub-plot. "Hark! Whither did that ball fly?" Enter narrator, stage left. "Oh good highlights narrator, pray tell, what news of Elliott?" "She perished, caught i' the point region." "Alas, I should have liked to see that." But even from the perspective of a spectator in a surgical collar standing atop a pair of step-ladders at deep straightish fine leg, I was still able to appreciate watching Anya Shrubsole's deliveries curving prodigiously away from the bat, the mesmerising flight of Erin Osborne's offbreaks, and Sarah Taylor's array of perfect straight drives. The only good thing about the paltry coverage is that it should persuade us off our backsides and out into the fresh air to watch more of what should be an enthralling series. Perhaps that was the plan all along. In which case - brace yourself reader - well done, Giles Clarke.

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Women's Ashes Test ends in stalemate

England and Australia had to settle for two points apiece in the new multi-format Women’s Ashes after the solitary Test at Wormsley was drawn. Australia adopted a positive approach with the bat on day four, skipper Jodie Fields striking 78 not out from 122 deliveries to hasten an afternoon declaration at 231 for five. Yet, on a placid surface, a target of 249 from 45 overs was never likely to prove tempting for the hosts, who reached 93 for two before hands were shaken at 5:17pm. The teams therefore remain on a level footing ahead of three one-day internationals and the same number of Twenty20s. Having been in danger of following on earlier in the game, England can be happy with the grit and determination they showed. Heather Knight’s magnificent first-innings 157 represented the highlight and ensured she walked away with the match award. England got off to an excellent start in the field today, with the exception of an early drop from Charlotte Edwards at midwicket that reprieved Meg Lanning on 30. Lanning added six to her total before falling in the next over, caught at mid-off via a leading edge off Anya Shrubsole. Lydia Greenway then produced an outstanding piece of work to account for Sarah Elliott, England’s star fielder springing to her right in the covers, picking the ball up one-handed and effecting a direct hit at the non-striker’s end. Jess Cameron collected three fours and a slog-swept six over cow corner off Shrubsole as Australia continued to attack. Yet she was then clipped Jenny Gunn to Edwards at square-leg and England grabbed another wicket before lunch as Alex Blackwell fell lbw on the sweep to Laura Marsh. By that stage, Fields was into her stride and the touring captain really opened her shoulders after lunch, passing 50 from 95 balls and then striking a succession of boundaries in the company of Erin Osborne. Fields was put down at long-off on 74 by a diving Jenny Gunn, yet that mattered little as the declaration came at the end of the next over. First-innings centurion Knight was run out - for the second time in the match - early in England’s reply following hesitation between the wickets and a direct hit from Ellyse Perry at square-leg. Fellow opener Arran Brindle reached 20 before offering a return catch to Elliott, but there were no further breakthroughs for Australia as Sarah Taylor and Edwards eased to 38 and 23 respectively.

http://www.ecb.co.uk/news/articles/womens-test-ends-stalemate

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Great job with the thread Carnish.......:nice:

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Great job with the thread Carnish.......:nice:

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Not sure about others, but I do.

Who care about women cricket?Meh