I was coaching grass roots cricket ten years ago and England women winning the World Cup lead to an explosion of girls wanting to play the game. It’s been growing ever since. They now have a professional game and girls don’t need to play in lads teams and they can aspire to have cricket and football as a career now.

Some of the attitudes around it from middle aged men is deeply depressing. They can’t just let them have a game on prime time tv without wading in and explaining how shite it is. Compared to etc etc etc

Hopefully after we’re long gone these sports can exist alongside each other without ridicule.