Opportunities abound for women`s cricket as T20 World Cup arrives | Geoff Lemon
(The Guardian Sports News)

The women´s side of the ledger can get a huge boost with the tournament in one of the game´s most important economiesStrategically, Cricket Australia has been building up to this home season for five years. The impressive growth of women´s cricket in Australia over that time has not been the result of hitting and hoping. It was calculated, and so far the sums have proved accurate. But in substantial part it has been achieved domestically, not by the input the national women´s team.Such teams have their moments of ignition. England enjoyed theirs in 2017, when their winning 50-over World Cup campaign saw pool matches packing out smaller grounds, then the triumph of 27,000 people selling out the final at Lord´s. India in the same tournament went from barely noticed to national sensations in their own country, a surge that peaked when current captain Harmanpreet Kaur downed Australia in the semi-final with her outrageous unbeaten 171. Continue reading...