At Taunton on Tuesday the England Women’s Cricket team beat Australia in a 50 over International game and won the ODI series, Australia’s first defeat for 10 years in this format. The wider Ashes series was drawn 8-8 over a Test, T20s and ODIs.
It was an impressive achievement and the games attracted record crowds.
What they did not attract was appropriate media coverage. None of Wednesday’s papers features England’s victory on the front or back pages (the Morning Star which has a good record on women’s sport coverage went to press too early for the result). The Lionesses in the Women’s Football World Cup will hopefully do better.
The recent ICEC report into cricket noted widespread discrimination on the basis not only of race but of gender. The lack of appropriate media coverage for the Women’s Ashes underlines the point
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