BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra – Test Match Special: ICC Women’s World Cup 2017
Australia v West Indies
26 June 2017
Somerset County Ground, Taunton
Australia
The Roar: We’re all feminists now – a fuss about nothing
Features, Print, Sport, The Roar“We want you to comment on the pregnancy thing with female cricketers.”
“I think it’s a fabricated gender issue.”
“It was a bit over the top wasn’t it?”
“Yes.”
The Roar: A women’s bash, growing up gracefully
Features, Print, Sport, The RoarOn a lazy day in February only last year, the rumours became fact. A Women’s Big Bash League, in some shape or form, would be staged the following season.
The announcement’s timing was discrete, jammed into one of the few rest days during the month-long Cricket World Cup that was unfolding across the country.
The Roar: Cricket’s not dead yet – the hyperbole raging through Australia
Features, Print, Sport, The RoarIn February this year, Hillary Clinton was odds on for a clean run to the White House, Brexit was the name of a breakfast cereal and Leicester’s claim to fame remained a long-deceased monarch buried under a few rusting Ford Fiestas.
Australia, the dominant force in global cricket for the past couple of decades, had also just reclaimed the number one Test spot. Normal service hadn’t resumed – it had hardly faltered.
The Roar: The evolution of the minnows – hear them roar
Features, Print, Sport, The RoarOne of the delights of sport, and one with such longevity and steeped in such history and tradition as Test cricket, is in watching the peaks and troughs of various teams throughout the years, decades, centuries even.
The dominant West Indian side of the 1980s and early 90s, who soon fell away to the Australian superstars of the early noughties, who in turn succumbed to a resurgent South Africa, bouncing back after years in apartheid wilderness.
The Roar: Katich and Clarke – Professional sportsmen acting like… professional sportsmen
Features, Print, Sport, The Roar“I am here because I worked harder than anyone else.”
Perhaps it’s because I never quite reached the top. Perhaps I’m just cynical. Perhaps I’m wrong. Whatever the reason, this expression, of unequivocally attributing one’s success to unparalleled hard work, has always been a bête noire.
The Guardian: Tyler Wright – a wave of change for sport’s gender pay gap?
Features, Print, Sport, The Guardian / The ObserverThe Australian surfer’s achievement this year remains a case of despite, not because, of the support female athletes receive, but her success may herald a wave of change
Sports Integrity Initiative: Australian police investigating NRL match-fixing allegations
Match-Fixing, Sports LawPolice in New South Wales, Australia, are investigating allegations of match-fixing in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph reports.
The investigation reportedly concerns two games in 2015 involving Manly Sea Eagles – one against South Sydney Rabbitohs and the other against Parramatta Eels. All three clubs are based in Sydney.
The Roar: The rise of the silent assassins
Features, Print, Sport, The RoarThis World Cup has been a coming of age tournament for T20 cricket, and no one is to thank more for this than the ‘dot-ball annihilators’ of the game.
The Roar: Cover the sport, not the spectacle
Features, Print, Sport, The Roar“The Test is to be broadcast on Sky – a first for the women’s game – and both are aware of their roles as ambassadors for women’s sport,” gushed one national newspaper of the women’s Ashes Test last year, triumphantly.
Isabelle Westbury 