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Violet_Crumble

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5. Women play it at the professional level, but there's mens and womens teams...

Reply to stevenleser (Reply #3)

Thu Jun 25, 2015, 08:18 AM

Jun 2015

...which is pretty exclusionary, especially seeing me as a casual cricket fan can name a few of the current national mens team, but had to go google it to find out the women's national team is called the Southern Stars and I have no idea who any of them are.

I used to play cricket (the backyard variety) when I was a kid, and I'd always beat my brothers, which always resulted in the sulky one of them pulling up stumps and storming off in a huff

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Baseball's a strange game that makes no sense, but that news is pretty awesome... Violet_Crumble Jun 2015 #2

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Women play it at the professional level, but there's mens and womens teams... Violet_Crumble Jun 2015 #5

Call me pessimistic, but.... Novara Jun 2015 #4