Girls’s Take a look at matches must be performed over 5 days to supply extra outcomes, present and former gamers mentioned after England and Australia battled out an exhilarating attract Canberra on Sunday.
Australia’s courageous declaration arrange an intriguing fourth and remaining day at Canberra’s Manuka Oval the place England fell agonisingly in need of a report run chase and the rain-hit Ashes contest led to a draw.
“The best Take a look at match that I’ve been fortunately sufficient to be concerned in…Now for five day Take a look at please,” tweeted Australia player-turned-commentator Lisa Sthalekar.
The problem has been mentioned by the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) however girls’s Take a look at matches are nonetheless performed over 4 days.
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“It is for the ICC Girls’s Cricket Committee to debate this subject,” an ICC spokesperson mentioned when requested about the potential for girls’s exams being performed over 5 days like the boys’s recreation.
England captain Heather Knight backed the concept earlier than the beginning of the one-off take a look at match, particularly contemplating how hardly ever girls’s exams are performed.
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Crew mate Kate Cross mentioned girls cricketers have been match sufficient to deal with the bodily calls for of longer matches.
“I feel we’re prepared for 5 days of cricket now,” the seamer mentioned in Canberra.
“Should you play 5 days of cricket you are most likely going to get extra outcomes out of ladies’s take a look at matches so possibly that will be one thing we might look into shifting ahead.”