“And there is an absolute lack of black cricket media in England. “I find it a bit annoying that women who are covering cricket are expected to cover women’s cricket,” says Ehantharajah. But this also instils a hierarchy, that women’s cricket is not what the senior, largely male journalists cover, and the cycle is reinforced. Not least because they cover men’s cricket just as they do women’s cricket: professionally and capably. With a propensity for editors to commission women to cover women, when female writers disappeared this summer, women’s sport, and women’s cricket, disappeared from view too.

Source: BBC November 11, 2020 13:41 UTC