If the Women’s World Cup left you wanting more drama then look no further than the Kia Super League, which returns on Thursday, says Isabelle Westbury…
Prospect Magazine: Getting over Gatlin for the greater good
Doping, Features, Miscellaneous, Print, Prospect Magazine, Sports LawWe are a society which purports to endorse rehabilitation. So why do we condemn those who have fallen afoul of strict doping regulations?
The Cricketer: Radio killed the video star
Features, Print, Sport, The CricketerAlmost forty years ago The Buggles topped the music charts with their smash hit, “Video Killed the Radio Star”. A nostalgic hark back to a lost era, the single epitomised a wider anxiety towards impending technological change. Just two years after the single was released MTV, the American music television channel, was launched and the song’s lyrical prophecy appeared to have come true – pictures had come and broken radio’s heart.
The Hindustan Times: India’s run timed to perfection
Features, Print, SportIndia will face England in the final of the 2017 Women’s Cricket World Cup and they will be heavily dependent on their skipper Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur.
Kiki Logan – guest report: ICC Women’s World Cup – England v India, 26 June 2017
Mess, PrintKiki Logan is a 14-year-old pupil from Sussex. She is a keen, and perceptive, follower of the game – not only does she play cricket at school, but she writes about it too. This is her first match report, in which she covers the opening game of the ICC Women’s World Cup between England and India in Derby.
All Out Cricket: A turning point for women’s cricket
Features, Print, Sport, Wisden Cricket MonthlyThe 2017 Women’s World Cup marks another sea change in attitudes to women’s sport in the UK, writes BBC commentator and former Middlesex Women’s skipper Isabelle Westbury.
The Cricket Paper: Behind the scenes – women in county cricket
Features, Interviews, Print, Sport, The Cricket Paper“The business of sport is dominated by men.” Clare Connor, director of England women’s cricket at the ECB and the only female member of the ICC’s Cricket Committee, wasn’t spouting feminist opinion when she made this statement, merely a simple truth. The Women’s World Cup is just around the corner and with reports of record ticket sales, the state of the women’s game on the pitch is arguably in a healthier state than ever before. But what of those off it?
The Roar: Taking the Mickey – Pakistan’s perennial plot twist
Features, Print, Sport, The RoarA lot has been made of England’s transformation since their beleaguered 2015 World Cup campaign Down Under.
Back then, their 50-over tournament came to a fitting culmination as England scraped a win in a rain-ridden dead rubber against minnows Afghanistan. In effect, their revival started as all good English revivals do – drowning in a beer-swilled haze of good intentions.
The Art of the Lost Lament – England Here at Least are Champions
Features, Print, SportWith a premature Champions trophy exit, England’s national habit of failing to win a major sporting tournament continues. Set up by a media complicit in placing the weight of a nation on our athletes’ shoulders, at least when the fall does come, it makes for compelling reading.
When England’s male cricketers last got knocked out at the group stage of a global tournament, Australia had the courtesy to go on and win the thing. Two years on from their humiliation at the hands of a burgeoning Bangladesh side, the tables appeared to have turned; England were favourites and well set going into the knockout stages of this year’s Champions Trophy.
All Out Cricket: Ansari’s Exit Exposes Culture Clash
Features, Print, Sport, Wisden Cricket MonthlyIsabelle Westbury considers what we can learn from Zafar Ansari’s retirement about the direction cricket is headed in.
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