AUSTRALIA: England suffer innings defeat to lose Women’s Ashes 16-0

/ Mike Buchanan

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind. An extract:

England captain Heather Knight to ABC Radio: “We’ll be judged on the scoreline.

“We haven’t played our best cricket and we’ve got some brilliant players. [J4MB translation: “We played our best cricket, but because almost all our players are crap, we lost 16-0.”] We haven’t been able to compete for long enough.

“When they had the advantage, they really hammered it down and I think we can learn from that as players and see how we can come back from this.”

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4 thoughts on “AUSTRALIA: England suffer innings defeat to lose Women’s Ashes 16-0”

  1. I went to one of the One Day Internationals at Bellerive Oval in Hobart along with about 2,000 other souls. It was entertaining for all the right and wrong reasons, including a brilliant juggled catch on the boundary and a farcical moment where two fielders, either of whom could have easily caught the ball, decided to let the other one go for the catch. In the end both of them stood and watched passively for what seemed like eternity as the ball landed on the ground between them. The oddest thing was that everyone, including their team mates and the crowd, acted like it was something perfectly natural that happens all the time. I’ve never seen anything like it in men’s cricket, at any level. A real ‘WTF’ moment for the ages.

    England threatened to be competitive on a few occasions, but none of those occasions lasted more than a minute. The key difference between the two sides was that the Australians looked like they might have practiced batting, bowling and fielding at some stage before the game, which was obviously quite unsporting. However, England had impeccable manners and looked just as nice as Australia in their uniforms, which I think is what secretly matters in women’s cricket. It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose, it’s how stylish you look playing the game.

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      • My elderly father is cricket mad and needed someone to drive him to the ground and keep him out of trouble. My wife was also keen to attend and I didn’t want to discourage her from going to a sporting event (I’m playing the long game). My expectations of the game were low and let’s just say that I wasn’t disappointed. I couldn’t help but think that they would have got a bigger crowd if the contest had been moved to Bellerive beach and played in bikinis (though with England playing you’d have to warn spectators about the risk of snow blindness). I’m old enough to remember when people laughed at ‘pyjama cricket’ and I don’t see them laughing now.

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