Post by hhsussex on Feb 8, 2016 12:30:29 GMT
Four English county grounds - Debryshire, Gloucestersgire, Leicstershire and Somerset - as well as Lord's will host the first Women's World Cup held in England since 1993. www.icc-cricket.com/news/2016/media-releases/92207/icc-womens-world-cup-2017-venues-announced
It is very good news for Women's cricket that it has taken the opportunity to spread the game away from the traditional power bases of the men's game and to take it out nationally. It is more than a pity since, as Clare Connor writes in the accompanying press release, there was a full house for the T20 at Hove, as there was for the corresponding 50 over game in 2013, there is no place at Sussex for innovation in a rapidly growing area of the game. Did Sussex put in a bid to host this and were turned down, or did the schedule (26 June to 23 July) threaten to offer too many clashes with men's matches? If the latter, wouldn't that have given a further stimulus to the argument that Horsham should have more, and not less investment, as an alternative to Hove and a way of bringing back the crowds in the western and northern parts of the county?
It is very good news for Women's cricket that it has taken the opportunity to spread the game away from the traditional power bases of the men's game and to take it out nationally. It is more than a pity since, as Clare Connor writes in the accompanying press release, there was a full house for the T20 at Hove, as there was for the corresponding 50 over game in 2013, there is no place at Sussex for innovation in a rapidly growing area of the game. Did Sussex put in a bid to host this and were turned down, or did the schedule (26 June to 23 July) threaten to offer too many clashes with men's matches? If the latter, wouldn't that have given a further stimulus to the argument that Horsham should have more, and not less investment, as an alternative to Hove and a way of bringing back the crowds in the western and northern parts of the county?
