'Cricket Team and The Indian Woman\r'

'Wo workforce’s delight in play is a sudden develop workforcet, propelled most(prenominal)ly by the advertisements projecting players as demigods. In the year 2003, model and actress Mandira Bedi became popular for hosting a play-discussion computer program during the World Cup cricket matches. Her wide popularity had little to do with her subsistledge nigh cricket and to a greater extent with the plunging neckline of her saris and the un parryable list of cleavage on exhibit. Today, women are clearn jolly a spaciousful for their favourite players on television and come acrossance cricket-celebration routineies at pubs and restaurants where they join the men in post-cricket drunken revelry.And these women go in’t witness women’s cricket. They do non roll in the hay rough(p tearingnessicate) the captain of the Indian women cricket team and they don’t cheer for them at pubs and discos. Advertisers spend lesser funds on women’s cricket because most women don’t bother to attend the matches and on that point has never been a sozzled demand for women cricket. Fact: Most women don’t drive in the sport. And their cheering and fan-following has more sexual tones than any proof of their do it for the sport. This is perfectly healthy.However, it is a problem if these women scratch line commenting on cricket and assume the enjoyment of critics. They are fooling their self and adding to their misery. They whitethorn feel left out during cricketing discussions because their friendship is immature. Women are gulling cricket because men watch it a lot. And watching cricket brings attention to women. It is enough for most women to fare the names of the players and which player is ‘hot holding’. Cricketers disposition on r deoxyadenosine monophosphate shows and women inhere in them or foreign models dance close to them.These women don’t agnize the content of a reverse-swe ep. They don’t know if the batsman’s strength lies in his front-foot strokes or his back foot-drives. They don’t even know the meanings of drives and hooks. They will parade around the cricketer because he makes lots of currency and is seen on television. And standing next to a cricketer would give the models lots of attention. These advertisements tell the women seance at home that cricketers are successful people because they play cricket; never mind their stature in the sport, their proficiency or their skills.Advertisers are selling cricket and women are being naive in accepting the advertisement. Not celebrated by Indian women: Jhulan Goswami is recognised as the fleet bowler in wo mens cricket. She was recently appointed as the captain of the Indian team. instantly say the advertisers decide that women ought to be meliorate well-nigh the sport to sustain their interest. They get models (Ruby Bhatia, Mandira Bedi) to slop about cricket on televisio n. These models are non expected to know much about the sport. They have been hired so that they can make the men talk about the sport.Also note that substantial women-cricketers are not asked to do this job, obviously because they do not project sexiness. at a time again, thither would be women who wouldn’t watch the cricket chat programs to learn about the sport unless would wait for something ‘ raise’ to happen in the sport. This is healthy; the women know what they want from the sport and they are not feigning any extra interest in the sport. merely there would be women who would hear opinions about the sport from the models and the experts who talk on television.In recent days there has been a concerted effort from the media and crickets politics bodies to promote women’s cricket, giving the persuasion that women playing the coarse-grained is kind of new. But the role of women in cricket has actu all toldy been significant since its origin s. â€Å" The girls bowled, batted, ran and catched as well as most men could do Women whitethorn have actually invented overarm bowl and could be the foremost cricketers to use a non-red cricket lump, long before the mens game sampled the white balls that we now see in one-day and twenty20 cricket.So what evidence is there to paint a picture that women were involved in the playing of the game right from the start? The two images infra show women playing forms of cricket long before the modern game was formed. The first picture shows a woman about to bowl in a knightly sketch †taken from a curious strip called ‘Focus on accompaniment: Cricket, lovely cricket, that was published in the seventies and use manuscripts from the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The second appears to show monks and nuns playing a interpretation of cricket together in the 14th century.So women whitethorn well have contend cricket from its very beginning. The first save game, however, was in 1745. The Reading Mercury account: â€Å"Eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambleton, dressed all in white, the girls bowled, batted, ran and catched as well as most men could do. ” In the years following the women’s game became quite popular. A game in Sussex in 1768 attracted a crowd of 3,000. One of the damp cognize facts about women and cricket is that legendary cricketer W. G.Grace was taught how to play my his mother. Less well known is that women may have invented overarm bowling. It is claimed Christina Willes apply to bowled overarm to her brother lavatory, who played cricket for Kent and England in the early nineteenth century, to avoid getting her arm tangled up in her skirts. John then tried out the method at sea captain’s, and the rest, as they say, is history. Whether this is true or not may never be known, but women have certainly been at the watch of the game’s development.I was listening to an wonder on the MCC audi o archive betwixt Ken Medlock, the former chairman of John Wisden & Co, and David Rayvern Allen, the cricket writer and broadcaster. During a section when Medlock is discussing the making of cricket balls, the interviewer Allen of a sudden drops in a comment about unforgiving cricket balls being used for the women’s game so ladies wouldn’t be frightened by the red balls! A myth surely? corresponding(p) piano legs being covered up for decency’s sake in nice times. I had to find out †and found evidence that they did exist almost straight person away.A ball specially made for womens cricket, slowness 5oz and coloured puritanical. According to an exhibition muniment from a 1963 Exhibition of Women’s Cricketana: â€Å"The blue ball made specially by Alfred Reader at the request of Gamages Ltd. in 1897 to ensure that lady cricketers would not croak at the sight of a red one, did not prove practical as it could not be seen again the mise e n scene of grass and sky. â€Å"Of interest is the fact that the weight unit of this ball, of which a limited supply was produced, is 5ozs. , the same as has been used by women cricketers since 1926.The ball on exhibit is the only uphold memento of this curious experiment. ” The above blue ball, on loan from the Womens Cricket Association, is part of the MCC Collections and is stamped ‘A. W. Gamage Ltd. ;A. W. G. ‘, Holborn, E. C. ‘. It was commissioned by a part store in central capital of the United Kingdom called Gamages, and made by A. Reader & Co, the famous ball makers from Kent. So there you have it, the evidence to suggest that women may well have introduced overam bowling to cricket and played the first ever cricket game with a non-red ball.\r\n'