Women’s Cricket

1finny

1finny

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My mates daughter is currently playing in a mens cricket team in Sheffield - she does a brilliant job in this short documentary discussing some of the challenges they face in a mans world.
Some really positives with coaches saying they are more prepared to listen and learn (the boys just want to crack on and play)

Then the absurd
Young girls want to be called ‘batters’ and the cricketing hierarchy have agreed that should be the way forward.
Just listening to the young girls being interviewed, almost bemused, by some of the dinosaurs who just think they should stick to ‘batsman’ 😩

 
You would no doubt be unsurprised to learn of the anger amongst older members of the cricketing elite with the term batters.

I sat infront of two egg and bacon tie buffers at a test at Lord’s earlier this Summer. They were doing their Waldorf and Statler routine incandescent with rage at the dropping of the word batsmen. So much so bits of their vol - au- vent and Marks and Sparks scotch egg were being sprayed over us.
 
Zoophonic said:
You would no doubt be unsurprised to learn of the anger amongst older members of the cricketing elite with the term batters.

I sat infront of two egg and bacon tie buffers at a test at Lord’s earlier this Summer. They were doing their Waldorf and Statler routine incandescent with rage at the dropping of the word batsmen. So much so bits of their vol - au- vent and Marks and Sparks scotch egg were being sprayed over us.
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Plenty of old blokes about who are pretty much just raging against the fact they will be dead soon.
 
Batter just makes me think of pancakes, Yorkshire puddings or fannies.
P.s. Wny is the thread title not simply cricket?
 
How can anyone have a problem with the term batters? Is batresses better? Batslasses?
 
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