{"id":29974,"date":"2025-07-29T01:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T01:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/29974\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T01:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T01:24:08","slug":"issy-wong-warwickshire-bowler-calls-for-womens-teams-to-join-men-at-t20-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/29974\/","title":{"rendered":"Issy Wong: Warwickshire bowler calls for women’s teams to join men at T20 finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

She added: “We earned our place in that final and to have the opportunity to attack it on fresh legs would be a fantastic thing for the competition because those finals should be played to the highest standard.”<\/p>\n

An ECB-led restructure fully aligned women’s domestic cricket with the men’s county game for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

Eight top-tier women’s county sides were chosen to contest the inaugural T20 Blast and One-Day Cup competitions above a 10-team second tier.<\/p>\n

“In terms of how the county structure has taken off, I couldn’t be more pleased with how I feel the game is growing, and it just keeps on growing every year,” Wong said.<\/p>\n

“Today was an example that if you put our game on the biggest stage and you market it well, people will come because it’s entertaining.”<\/p>\n

Wong fell out of favour with selectors after making her England debut in 2022, with World Cup-winning coach Mark Robinson critical of how she was managed<\/a> as an international player.<\/p>\n

But she looked back to her best in Sunday’s eliminator, top-scoring with a 38-ball 59 before removing England star Tammy Beaumont and Scotland captain Kathryn Bryce cheaply on her way to figures of 4-14.<\/p>\n

“I’ve loved every second of playing this year,” Wong said.<\/p>\n

“You can’t come in and have a bad day really because whatever you need someone will give, and it’s been a fantastic place to play cricket this year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She added: “We earned our place in that final and to have the opportunity to attack it on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-29974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}