So the big question is: what next for women’s cricket? One thing I’d love to see is a fixture list with more international games.
The ICC Women’s Championship, external has been one of the big factors in the standard of cricket increasing, with more structured cricket for all countries, but there are still big gaps in the calendar.
We’ve decided to organise this tour to India outside the ICC Championship structure, or we would have been faced with no international cricket for six months.
The first stand-alone Women’s World Twenty20 will happen in November in the West Indies and I think that is a great step. When they have taken place alongside the men’s events in the past, the women’s tournaments have played second fiddle.
This tri-series in India is all about preparation for that World T20 as we haven’t played a lot of T20 in the past few years as an international team, so we’re trying to find the best players who can make an impact in that tournament.
And with the ODIs not counting for ICC Championship points, this tour’s the perfect opportunity to blood a few young players and try a few new things.