ashley bach
International Captain
Fair effort today getting to within 3 balls, but really Aus were never in too much doubt, they just got too many guns to call upon.
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* Official * 2022 Commonwealth Games Women's T20
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Flem274*
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It has to be a disagreement between coach and captain surely.
Devine refuses to bowl her even when Jensen (this game) is getting smoked and bowling down leg. If Devine wasn't going to use her than another batswoman could have swung the game in our favour, though the biggest issue were the drops.
Gaze is very young but her keeping has a way to go. Sharp involvement in the run out tbf.
Figures don't show it but that's the best I've seen Jonas bowl. Very tidy for the youngster under pressure.
Tahuhu should have had 5. Big statement from her to the selectors.
Yeah, I've got to be careful commenting when I didn't watch the game (nor the England bowling effort). I just wondered whether it was a spin thing and the pitch not suiting her, but Tahuhu went well.
One thing that women's sport needs to be very aware of is that if they want more exposure, more funding and generally a move towards more parity with men, is that they'll have to wear the analysis and criticism along with it (or they should). I am 100% for something near, resembling or actually exactly like equity in men's and women's sport. As we've seen with the All Blacks, the last 12 months of the NZ men's cricket team etc, when you get the public to buy into the highs and the investment emotionally and financially, you have to weather the lows of criticism when you get it wrong. Our netball team is not just being beaten, they are being thumped by teams we used to dominate. Our women's cricket team has fallen off a cliff. The Black Ferns rugby team seem to be on the way back up but they've been failing. But there still seems to be a cloak of immunity around these teams when it comes to depth of analysis and negative feedback, which to me doesn't make sense if you want the good stuff as well.
Flem274*
123/5
I said the short version of this during the game this morning to my mate.
Women are finally professionals now, which is awesome, but it also means we need to take our catches and can analyse them like they're professionals.
I did wonder if some of the contracting was breaking up an Old Girls club when I saw the ball go repeatedly to Jensen (and Devine bowling herself). Jensen was having an off day, which happens. It looks bad on the scorecard, and it was insane live.
Rowe is both better and more talented than Jensen too imo. She's one of our few women pacers with genuine height.
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And I understood that the new coach had recognised that potential and done quite a bit of work with Rowe as a project. Seems crazy not to use her at all.
I'm glad that they played better here than they did against England and they weren't disgraced (by the best team in the history of women's cricket, I might add), but at the same time this performance is so frustrating in many ways. I guess I'm just never satisfied.
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Fuller Pilch
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Halliday. Hope this over doesn't get smashed