Four years ago Australia and England’s female teams played out a deathly Test match at Canterbury that prompted a backlash against the format. With the teams in action this summer, Raf Nicholson, writing for Wisden Cricket Monthly, asks where women’s Test cricket fits in the modern game.
This article was first published in issue 21 of Wisden Cricket Monthly. Subscribe here
When this summer’s Women’s Ashes Test gets underway at Taunton on July 18, one thing is for sure: both sides will be hoping to avoid a repeat of the last women’s Test played in England. That was at Canterbury in August 2015, a match which England lost to Australia by 161 runs, along the way playing out 34 maidens and 436 dot balls in a first-innings total of 168 all out.
