Women's World T20 2016

He has been in charge of this team for 5 months now, has run various training camps and has had significant resources to draw upon in that time. Has he only just now noticed that some of them are unfit?

Once again his speech is a collection of non sequiturs. What has "players who can play under pressure" to do with "aerobic fitness necessary to do the job"? The former is a mental attitude which many would argue comes from a sense of security about their position in the team and confidence that they are trusted to use their talents to the full, in their own way. It is at least as important to make the right shots to the ball you are receiving as to pace yourself for a long innings or for lots of short singles.

Still, its good to see that he hasn't lost that witty knack for a soundbite, and that teams he's in charge of go forward....just like Sussex did.

Well said, Robinson. He seems to have learnt from his mistakes at Sussex.

I may have told this story before, but my personal experience of women's cricket is limited to one match (which hhs may have played in,too, as he turned out once of twice in the fixture concerned.)

It was in the mid-1980s and I was captaining the Tribune XI in the annual match against the New Statesman. In my side were two twins, who had both represented Lancashire at county level. Their names were Angela Eagle and Maria Eagle.

I batted them at numbers eight and nine. They grumbled mightlily about this and said it was "sexist" not to have put them higher in the order, given their "experience". They were both out for ducks, one of them bowled by  a slow full-toss delivered by Francis Wheen  and the other dismissed by Patrick Wintour. My only reget is that I batted them too high. They should have been ten and eleven.

The story ended up in the Guardian Diary - which at the time was edited by a young cub reporter called Alan Rusbridger.

Many of those involved in this tale have since moved on to greater and better things as newspaper editors, columnists, broadcasters, authors and government ministers. But women's cricket doesn't seem to have moved on very much at all.

Nothing to do with fitness. apart from one to four had no idea how to bat. It may not be much but unbelievable that 7/8 are on central contracts. This is my first time of watching but compared to say womans football and rugby is so far removed from mens game.