6 reasons to watch women's cricket

Are you a cricket fan? Do you wake up or stay awake at ungodly hours to watch your favourite team play? Most probably, you can rattle off the batting and bowling averages and strike rates of your favourite player without a second thought.So if I ask you to name 10 women cricketers, it shouldn’t be difficult for you, but is this really the case? Alas, no. Even if I sugarcoat things, most people wouldn’t be able to come up with more than 4-5. Why is there such a bias against the women’s game? While lakhs of people flock to watch men play all around the world, in the Women’s Cricket World Cup in 2013, the venue of a women’s match was shifted to accommodate a Ranji Trophy match. That is how dire the state is.What is there in the men’s game that women lack? The honest and the first answer to your mind would be ‘money’. Not to forget about the phenomenal pace at which men’s game is played at. Men’s cricket has a variety of international and domestic tournaments all over the year while the women do not enjoy such benefits.By the end of 2014, men’s teams would have played around 40 Test matches while only 3 women’s Tests have been played during the same period.Here are 6 reasons, which would make you want to watch women play cricket:

#1 Fair game between bat and ball

In recent times, the men’s game has become more of a contest between the bat and the bat, where the bowlers are hit all over the park. But not in women’s cricket, the bowlers are as important as the batswomen.

The pacers swing the ball, the spinners flight it and batswomen push it gloriously towards the boundary and steal runs. As Sunil Gavaskar would say, “The 1s are converted to 2s and the 2s to 3s” without dealing only in boundaries.