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Katya Witney: Du Plooy farce the latest own goal as county calamities continue
Katya Witney on the administrative failings and inept decision-making from higher powers that continues to plague the domestic game.
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/ 4 weeks agoKatya Witney: Big decisions ahead for women’s game
Katya Witney on a transition period facing English women's cricket and the key decisions involved.
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/ 1 month agoKatya Witney: A little bit of needle goes a long way
Katya Witney looks back at Trent Boult’s exchange with Jonny Bairstow in this year’s The Hundred and considers what moments of...
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/ 2 months agoKatya Witney: Women’s Blast gets lost in the mayhem
Less than a week before the start of The Hundred, women’s T20 Blast Finals Day played out at The Oval. If...
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/ 2 months agoKatya Witney: England playing catch-up in Test arena
Katya Witney examines why England continue to struggle in women’s Test cricket, arguing the defeat to India at Lord’s exposed deeper...
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/ 3 months agoNO ENGLAND, NO INDIA, NO INTEREST?
KATYA WITNEY Walking the 30 seconds from the Tube station to The Oval last Tuesday afternoon, it felt like there was...
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/ 3 months agoKatya Witney: Sussex still raging against the dying of the light
Katya Witney examines how Sussex’s thrilling title challenge has been overshadowed by financial uncertainty, player departures and fears that a new...
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/ 4 months agoKatya Witney: England’s power game in doubt despite Taunton tornado
The partnership between Alice Capsey and Heather Knight at Taunton last Tuesday changed the complexion of England’s T20 World Cup preparation.
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/ 4 months agoKatya Witney: Catch them while you can
Katya Witney says it is a privilege to witness the last hurrahs of two Kiwi greats.
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/ 5 months agoKatya Witney: Draw your own conclusions
Katya Witney on why so many early season fixtures have ended in stalemate
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/ 5 months agoKatya Witney: Keeping The Faith
Katya Witney on England’s issues behind the stumps
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/ 6 months agoKatya Witney: A testing summer ahead for women’s domestic cricket
This time last year, counties were navigating their new homes alongside men’s sides at the same grounds, looking apprehensively at schedules...
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/ 12 months agoKatya Witney: Emerging batters make it a season to remember
Lancashire’s One-Day Cup win last weekend book-ended their season with silverware. Without wanting to downplay their T20 County Cup win back...
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/ 1 year agoKatya Witney: Fond farewells as World Cup will be legends’ last hurrah
The pinnacle of the men’s game differs from player to player. Ask an England or Australia Test player, and they’ll tell...
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/ 1 year agoTHE CURIOUS CASE OF DANÉ VAN NIEKERK
KATYA WITNEY South Africa’s Women’s World Cup squad has not yet been announced, but – as of Friday morning – one...
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/ 1 year agoKatya Witney: One-woman shows and what they mean
Muneeba Ali hit a sensational hundred in the final T20I between Ireland and Pakistan in Dublin earlier this week, in a...
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/ 1 year agoKatya Witney: Lionesses roar as cricket misses a trick
A record crowd at The Oval, but cricket still needs to follow football’s example, writes Katya Witney The first women’s T20...
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/ 1 year agoKatya Witney: Lack of real jeopardy is masking Blast advances
Katya Witney says that while the first year has been solid, a format tweak would have added excitement It’s not so...
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/ 1 year agoKatya Witney: Shackled England still haunted by Winter demons
England appear unable to shake off the hangover from a confidence-shattering winter, writes Katya Witney England Women’s losses in the first...
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/ 1 year agoECCLESTONE BACK TO BOLSTER ENGLAND
KATYA WITNEY Katya Whitney on the first bump in the road for England’s premier spinner Left out, dropped, rested, injured. All...
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/ 1 year agoKatya Witney: Consistency gives Sophia Dunkley golden chance to shine
Katya Witney on how the new set-up is getting the best out of one of England’s rising stars Beyond the headline-grabbers,...
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/ 1 year agoAGE NO BARRIER FOR ARLOTT AS NEW ERA KICKS IN
KATYA WITNEY Receiving her maiden cap from former Worcestershire and Central Sparks teammate Sarah Glenn on the Canterbury outfield on Wednesday...
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/ 1 year agoKatya Witney: A freak occurrence, the Alice Capsey issue and an opportunity missed
Katya Witney has had plenty to keep her busy this week Bank holiday weekends are all fun and games unless you...
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/ 1 year agoKatya Witney: National Counties reap the rewards of new structure
Katya Witney on the third tier of the women’s game The culmination of a hectic year of immense change began this...
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/ 1 year agoKatya Witney: When two became one…
The early days of co-habiting are usually frantic. There are arguments over whose stuff you keep and what goes where and...
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