The game is looking strong after a traumatic year but there remains the challenge of truly reflecting society, and not just in terms of skin colour
The past year has thrown up challenges like no other in our lifetimes but as we look ahead hopefully to the return of some kind of normality in 2021, to the delayed launch of the Hundred, a hectic international schedule for England’s men including home and away series against India, and the start of a period of real excitement and potential in the women’s game, overall I’m optimistic. We’ve had a hard reset, but we might just come out of it better positioned to face the future.
When we first went into lockdown, and all sport temporarily ended, my fear was that the women’s game would be completely parked until the crisis was over, with all attention going to more high-profile action elsewhere. In many sports it did feel like women were sent to the back of the queue, for obvious commercial reasons, but in cricket what I saw was a shift in the narrative.
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I have to give a lot of credit to Mikey – I wouldn’t have done it without him. Sky too for making the decision to use its platform to get that conversation going
In cricket inequality of opportunity is not limited to skin colour. I don’t think we talk about the white working class enough. Counties need to engage with their local communities
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