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Yep, don't think Alyssa Healy will be missed too much.
Voll, Litchfield, Sutherland the future.
Nicole Faltum's a good keeper as well, when Mooney's had enough.
Yes agree, I spruiked Voll a couple of years ago. Her and Lichfield are going to decimate attacks at the top of the order for the next 10 years.

Another one to follow is 20yo Chloe Ainsworth, she opens the bowling for Wa and scored a 100 a couple of weeks ago against the Vic's batting at 7.
 
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Anybody read the Sturat Magill podcast blowup article on the foxsports website ? o_O

The drugs have destroyed Mcgill....
 
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Yes agree, I spruiked Voll a couple of years ago. Her and Lichfield are going to decimate attacks at the top of the order for the next 10 years.

Another one to follow is 20yo Chloe Ainsworth, she opens the bowling for Wa and scored a 100 a couple of weeks ago against the Vic's batting at 7.
Litchfield is fantastic to watch. has the best reverse shots I've seen. I wish she would stop going out in the 20s though.
 
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Litchfield is fantastic to watch. has the best reverse shots I've seen. I wish she would stop going out in the 20s though.
I try and watch womens cricket but find the gap to the mens game simply too big. Every now and again I tune in and ultimately it's like watching park cricket. If I had a daughter that played I may have a different view, but the gap is simply too big to enjoy the differences for me.

A bit like watching AFLW.
 
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I try and watch womens cricket but find the gap to the mens game simnply too big. Every now and again I tune in and ultimately it's like watching park cricket. If I had a daughter that played I may have a different view, but the gap is simply too big to enjoy the differences for me.

A bit like watching AFLW.
I get it. i can't watch more than 5 minutes of AFLW. For some reason the difference in cricket doesn't bother me. Perhaps it's a little like women's tennis in that I feel like the men's game has lost some of it's skill and now has just become a contest of power.

How long since you've had a look at Women's cricket? It's come a long way.
 
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Litchfield is fantastic to watch. has the best reverse shots I've seen. I wish she would stop going out in the 20s though.
She's dynamite in the field as well, so is Ash Gardner, drops nothing. Alana King may be the best Aussie leggie since Warnie.
 
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She's dynamite in the field as well, so is Ash Gardner, drops nothing. Alana King may be the best Aussie leggie since Warnie.
I agree on King. When she's on she is great to watch. I'd watch her over Lyon any day of the week.
 
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I get it. i can't watch more than 5 minutes of AFLW. For some reason the difference in cricket doesn't bother me. Perhaps it's a little like women's tennis in that I feel like the men's game has lost some of it's skill and now has just become a contest of power.

How long since you've had a look at Women's cricket? It's come a long way.
In watched some of the recent womens T20 Aust v India - it was very average to watch IMO. Bowling is poor, batters can barely hit it.

The best shine but the overall standard is poor. I faced bowlers in local A grade cricket that would roll through most womens batters. And conversely would dispatch the best womens bowlers all over the place.

IMO womens tennis is miles ahead in terms of standard compared to the mens game - which is only natural given how long girls/women have been playing, and in how many countries it is played.

As I said, if I had a daughter playing I would probably be used to it and not come at the viewing the same way.

And I love cricket, the favourite team sport I have ever been involved in.
 
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