Before the first Kia Super League tournament last year, the custom was to look back for context, drawing on comparisons of what domestic women’s cricket had been to what it was about to potentially become. To reflect on Charlotte Edwards, for instance, having to pay for her own England blazer when her career started, to now playing in a semi-professional Twenty20 league.
What a difference a year makes. Season two arrives with the women’s game bouncing out of a revolution in the space of a month during the World Cup. England’s champions return to local ranks facing one main question: can that emphatic success can be harnessed into enduring gains at a domestic level as well?
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