#womens cricket

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WPL 2026's Two-Venue Format — Controversy Over Lack of Home-and-Away Cricket

WPL franchises

January 2026

The 2026 Women's Premier League was played across only two venues rather than the IPL-style home-and-away format that some sections of cricket commentary had advocated for. The BCCI's logistics-and-broadcast-efficiency framing of the decision drew criticism from women's-cricket advocates who argued that the format was holding the WPL back from its full development potential.

#WPL 2026#two venue format#home and away

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Mithali Raj vs Ramesh Powar — Public Fallout

India Women

24 November 2018

India's greatest women's cricketer Mithali Raj was sensationally dropped from the T20 World Cup semi-final, leading to a bitter public war of words with coach Ramesh Powar.

#mithali raj#ramesh powar#bcci

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Women's Cricket Association Founded — England, October 1926

Women's Cricket Association

1926-10-04

On 4 October 1926, at a women's cricket week at Colwall in the Malvern Hills, 70 players agreed to form the Women's Cricket Association — the first national governing body for women's cricket in any country. Within nine years the WCA had organised the first women's Test, between England and Australia at Brisbane in December 1934.

#womens-cricket-association#england#1926

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Marjorie Pollard — Founder of English Women's Cricket Journalism

Pollard / Women's cricket in England

1925-08-15

Through the 1920s Marjorie Pollard was the leading all-rounder in English women's cricket and the founding journalist of the women's game. Her playing career, her organisation of the 1926 Colwall cricket week, and her editorship of Women's Cricket magazine from 1930 onward made her the central figure in the institutional history of women's cricket in England.

#marjorie-pollard#womens-cricket#england

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Women's Cricket in the 1850s — Charity Matches and Village Traditions

Various women's teams, England

1853-08-01

Women's cricket in the 1850s existed as a scattered tradition of charity and novelty matches, usually organised for local fundraising, in which village women played against each other in informal matches that drew curious crowds. While far removed from the professional game, these fixtures kept the women's cricket tradition alive between the formal matches of the 1790s and the organised women's cricket clubs of the 1880s.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1850s

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Women's Cricket in the 1840s — Village Matches and the Continuing Tradition

Women's cricket clubs, principally Surrey and Kent

1846-08-01

Women's cricket in the 1840s continued the tradition of village women's matches that had been established in the eighteenth century, with fixtures between women's sides from villages in Surrey and Kent drawing curious crowds who came as much to watch an unusual spectacle as to follow the cricket. The matches were informal and commercially insignificant but their persistence through the mid-Victorian era maintained a continuous women's cricket tradition that the late Victorian women's clubs would later build upon.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1840s

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Married vs Single — Women's Cricket Match, 1838

Married women vs Single women

1838-08-13

Through the late 1830s the rural Married vs Single women's cricket match — a tradition dating from at least the 1740s — continued to be played in several English villages. The 1838 fixture, reported in the Sporting Magazine, is one of the better-documented examples of women's cricket in a decade in which the men's first-class game was rapidly professionalising and the women's tradition was carrying on alongside.

#womens-cricket#married-vs-single#1838