Multi-day cricket, mostly played with a red ball and occasionally with a pink ball, inevitably requires a different skillset to short-format cricket. <\/p>\n
The red ball swings more, generating more movement in the air for bowlers. <\/p>\n
It can also be shined, in comparison to the white ball which cannot, and quickly deteriorates. <\/p>\n
Multi-day cricket requires execution of skills over a much longer period of time, bringing in a heightened necessity for fitness, focus and discipline. <\/p>\n
It is played consistently throughout the men’s domestic summer, with all 18 men’s counties competing in the County Championship divisions. <\/p>\n
However, as a female professional cricketer, unless playing in international fixtures, you will be unlikely to pick up any ball other than the white one.<\/p>\n
Personally, as an opening bowler whose main skills are swinging the ball and consistency, it is easy to feel as though the longest format of cricket could be the one that I am best suited to.<\/p>\n
The idea of playing red-ball cricket is one that appeals not only to myself, but to many of my team-mates. <\/p>\n
With no multi-day cricket being played in the women’s domestic sphere, the only avenue to compete in this format is by playing Test cricket for England. <\/p>\n
How one may go about proving their ability and therefore getting selected to play Test cricket becomes very difficult when there is simply no red-ball cricket for women to play. <\/p>\n
While Test cricket is still sparse in the women’s international calendar, England have still played at least one Test annually in recent years. <\/p>\n
Selecting an international team in a format that domestic cricketers do not play seems not only difficult, but illogical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multi-day cricket, mostly played with a red ball and occasionally with a pink ball, inevitably requires a different…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-331109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331109","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=331109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}