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Stage is set for women’s Test between England and India at Lord’s. Lord’s will finally host a women’s Test, 142 years since staging its first such men’s match, when England face India in a four-day game at the ‘Home of Cricket’ starting Friday.”It just boggles my mind that it is just the first (women’s) Test match here at Lord’s,” said India coach Amol Muzumdar, who added: “It is a great occasion and we are looking forward to it.”The match takes place just over 50 years since the first women’s match of any kind at the renowned London venue, with England beating Australia by eight wickets in a one-day international on August 4, 1976.England’s captain at Lord’s that day was the late Rachael Heyhoe Flint, a pioneering figure in a women’s game where players were still wearing skirts rather than, as they do no now, white or coloured trousers.Heyhoe Flint, who died in 2017, now has a gate named after her at Lord’s.But in 1976, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the owners of Lord’s, were still decades away from admitting women as members, with the thought of females walking directly through the Long Room of the pavilion before taking the field a distant dream.England’s No. 5 that day, Megan Lear, compared the experience to the moon landing, telling the Guardian: “On that day in 1976, to walk on to the hallowed turf at Lord’s, it was like one small step for us women cricketers, but one giant leap towards the future of women’s cricket.”It is a sign of how things have changed from those amateur days that a Test between two professional sides will also be England’s second fixture at Lord’s in under a week following Sunday’s defeat by Australia in the women’s T20 World Cup final — a match that attracted a capacity crowd.Nine of England’s World Cup squad are included for the Test, including captain Nat Sciver-Brunt, who is “hoping to play” despite a nagging calf injury. ‘HISTORY IN THE MAKING'”We’ve always known this has been on the calendar,” said England coach Charlotte Edwards.”A lot of our players have been doing Test match prep throughout the T20s so we’re really looking forward to it,” added Edwards, England’s captain when they won the 2009 Women’s T20 World Cup final at Lord’s.”It’s a historic Test match for us as a group and for the Indian team, and we can’t wait to play in front of a lot of people again over the next four days”Teenage England spinner Tilly Corteen-Colman is well aware of the importance of the occasion.”I remember speaking to Lottie (Edwards) about when she used to play here and they weren’t allowed in the Long Room,” said the 18-year-old.”The first women’s Test at Lord’s is history in the making, so to be involved would be incredible. It would mean the absolute world.”As well as a breakthrough, the game will also mark England batter Tammy Beaumont’s farewell to international cricket.Beaumont has made 260 appearances for England since her debut 17 years ago and she was the first English woman to score a double century in a Test — 208 against Australia at Trent Bridge in 2023.”When I fell in love with playing cricket as a young girl, I barely knew that playing cricket for England was an option,” said Beaumont.Th 35-year-old, who will continue to play domestic cricket, added: “Our first ever women’s Test at Lord’s feels like the perfect occasion to sign off on a career that I could never have dreamt would be as special as it has been.” Related Story Source link
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Davide Ballerini dodged a mass of crashes on the final corner on slick Naples cobbles to win stage six of the Giro d’Italia on Thursday as overall leader Afonso Eulalio finished safely in the peloton.As sprinters, jockeying for position for the final run to the line, went tumbling in a series of crashes, Ballerini and Jasper Stuyven emerged upright and alone. The pair surged for line and the XDS Astana man held off the Belgian Soudal Quick-Step rider. “When we arrived at the last corner, I saw the first guys had crashed,” said Ballerini.”I just exited from the corner and I heard on the radio ‘Go! Go! Go! To the finish! To the finish! There’s a gap’.”I was just hoping the line was coming really fast and I made it. I’m really happy,” he added.It was the 31-year-old Italian’s first Grand Tour stage victory.”I was hoping to win one stage on the Giro but it was not the plan today,” he said, adding he was at the front to lead out Astana sprinter Matteo Malucelli.”I was trying to do the maximum for him. In cycling there is always some problems and when you don’t expect the results the win comes.”At the end of a rare flat stage, the sprinters had been eyeing their chances but also the clouds, afraid more rain would turn the cobbled finish into a potential repeat of the carnage last year’s wet and chaotic sixth stage, also into Naples, when racing was neutralised for 20 kilometres after a mass crash 70km from the end.While the rain largely held off, the the cobbles on the final corner were still slick from an earlier shower. “It was really slippery,” said Dutch sprinter Dylan Groenewegen, who went down when perfectly placed. “It’s just bad luck.”After a draining start to the Giro and with a tough weekend ahead, the peloton settled for an easy day in 142km run up the Tyrrhenian coast from Paestum.The pack rolled through the stage in cool and mostly dry conditions untroubled by any sustained breakaways, reaching the finish more than 35 minutes after the arrival time predicted by race organisers.Race favourite Jonas Vingegaard and his Visma-Lease a bike team adopted an unusual strategy, rolling along at the back of the peloton, preferring to minimise the danger of becoming tangled in mass crashes, at the risk of being held up if one occurred and the pack split.Portuguese rider Eulalio, who became the first rider from the Bahrain Victorious to lead the Giro and the first with all five vowels in his family name to lead any major tour when he finished second on Wednesday despite crashing in the final kilometres, remained 2 minutes 51 seconds ahead of Spaniard Igor Arrieta, his breakaway companion the day before.Friday’s stage is a 244 kilometre run starting in Formia and ending with an infamous 7km climb to the Apennine peak of Blockhaus.It will offer Vingegaard, who is 6min 22sec off the lead, a chance make a move on Eulalio, himself a specialist climber. Related Story Source link
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