Ellyse Perry desires Cricket Australia to take a daring path ahead on larger venues for girls’s matches, after the MCG was slated for an Ashes Test this summer season.
Cricket Australia confirmed on Tuesday that the ladies’s crew would play a four-day Test on the MCG from January 30 for the primary time since 1949.
A T20 match within the multi-format Ashes collection may also be performed on the SCG, and Adelaide Oval will host a girls’s worldwide for the second straight 12 months.
Officials haven’t put a crowd goal on any of the matches, after 4 years of promoting prompted 86,174 followers to attend the 2020 girls’s T20 World Cup remaining.
But they’re nicely conscious a big improve for Test matches is required to cease the 100,000-seat MCG showing sparsely attended.
The final girls’s Ashes Test in Australia exterior of COVID attracted crowds of about 4000 a day at North Sydney Oval in 2017.
Since then, the Matildas have repeatedly performed in entrance of sold-out stadiums throughout final 12 months’s FIFA World Cup and within the lead-up to this 12 months’s Olympics.
“That’s the aspiration for everyone involved, to start to regularly play at the best stadiums around the country,” Perry stated.
“And most importantly, have really good crowds attend those matches.
“That’s the following evolution for girls’s cricket, however extra globally as nicely for girls’s sport.”
Realistically it appears most likely that the push for bigger venues will come in the T20 format, which generally attracts larger crowds for women’s matches.
But the backing of the Victorian government and Melbourne Cricket Club prompted CA to play this match at the MCG.
The fixture will also mark the 90-year anniversary of the first women’s Test at the venue in 1935.
It will, however, only be played over four days.
Last year’s Ashes Test was the first played over five days in 21 years, with a day-five Australian victory ending a run of 11 draws in 18 Tests between the nations.
Players from both sides have been vocal in their push for five-day matches, particularly given any rain often renders a result unlikely.
But the view of Australian officials is that a four-day match should lead to more attacking and positive cricket.
“We in all probability have to do some extra quantifiable work on what’s best for the ladies’s sport,” Perry stated.
“I’ve one pattern dimension of 1 five-day Test, and we managed to get a end in that.
“My bias is geared towards that, having played a number of four-day games where we haven’t got results.”
Alyssa Healy’s crew will open their summer season with three T20s towards New Zealand in Queensland in September, earlier than the World Cup in Bangladesh.
Three ODIs towards India in December will comply with what is predicted to be a shortened WBBL, earlier than the Ashes start with a North Sydney Oval ODI on January 12.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
