{"id":930954,"date":"2026-10-17T02:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930954\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T02:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T02:34:12","slug":"cricket-news-2026-alyssa-healy-slams-t20-scheduling-womens-game-against-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930954\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket News 2026: Alyssa Healy slams T20 scheduling, women\u2019s game against New Zealand,"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian women\u2019s cricket team<\/a> are calling on their governing body, Cricket Australia, to rethink their scheduling after they warned that poorly timed fixtures threaten to strip the world-champion team of crucial visibility. <\/p>\n

Australia began its home summer with a 3-0 ODI<\/a> victory over Bangladesh in Brisbane, and now have a trio of T20s<\/a> against New Zealand in Sydney, starting on Sunday. <\/p>\n

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The Aussie team is being hit with scheduling problems. \u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

However, frustration is mounting over the fact that all three Sydney matches fall right before school nights, alienating their youngest fans and their parents. <\/p>\n

Following this series, the world no.1 ranked team will endure a massive gap in the calendar, not playing on home soil again until they host New Zealand for ODIs in March 2027.<\/p>\n

Players fear this schedule risks keeping the national team out of sight and out of mind, stunting the momentum generated by yet another T20 World Cup victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The disbelief was vocalised by former Australian captain Alyssa Healy<\/a>, who slammed the decision to host evening games on weekends when the venues are entirely unoccupied during the day.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The games are at night) at North Sydney Oval, when North Sydney Oval is free all day,\u201d she said, speaking on the Keepin\u2019 it Cricket podcast. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is some mind-boggling stuff happening around cricket<\/a> at the moment. It does make a difference. I mean, first and foremost, the scheduling. You\u2019ve got your world champions back on home soil playing cricket. <\/p>\n

\u201cFine, it\u2019s this time of year, it\u2019s not ideal, but this is potentially the only window that we\u2019ll get. Three T20 fixtures at 7.15pm starts. First one is a Sunday night. <\/p>\n

\u201c7.15pm at North Sydney Oval. Kids are going to school on a Monday. I\u2019m sorry, but who\u2019s taking their kids to North Sydney Oval at 7.15pm on a Sunday night when you\u2019ve got the whole of a Sunday free?\u201d <\/p>\n

The bizarre fixturing is compounded by a direct broadcast clash with day one of the men\u2019s Test match against South Africa<\/a>, forcing the two formats to compete for viewership.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet alone clashing with the test match on day one that starts at 7pm on television,\u201d Healy continued. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe women\u2019s game is a real opportunity to grow the game and continue for cricket to be strong in this country.<\/p>\n

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Alyssa Healy has slammed the scheduling fixture. \u00a0Paul Kane<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we\u2019re quite literally shutting down one half of it at the moment by doing what we\u2019re doing with the schedules.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating. Don\u2019t do it to the world\u2019s best team. Give them an opportunity to showcase what they can do. The women\u2019s game is a real opportunity to grow the game.\u201d <\/p>\n

Veteran wicket-keeper Beth Mooney<\/a> was blunt about the logistical hurdles the current schedule creates for families.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just pushing it uphill…(parents aren\u2019t) dragging their kid out to watch a 7pm T20 on a Tuesday night or whatever it is,\u201d Mooney said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s going to stop girls getting into the game because parents aren\u2019t going to take them.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian women\u2019s cricket team are calling on their governing body, Cricket Australia, to rethink their scheduling after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-930954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}