India versus Australia ladies’s collection ought to have perpetual trophy: Mel Jones
The collection between Indian and Australian ladies ought to have a perpetual trophy named after legends of the ladies’s sport, just like the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the lads’s groups, advised former Australia participant Mel Jones.
The feedback by Jones, additionally a member of ICC’s ladies’s committee, got here forward of the Indian ladies group’s scheduled tour of Australia in September-October, which can characteristic one Test (day-night match), three ODIs and as many T20Is.
“It’s great to have something like Border-Gavaskar, but that’s the men’s lens of what’s happened in the past. So we should do it our way for the women’s game, and maybe can come up with something a little bit different,” Jones was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.
“Both the men’s and women’s games have got these magnificent storylines behind their Ashes trophies, and maybe we can create one just as special that is being talked about in 100 years’ time with the same sort of reverence as the Ashes.”
The 48-year-old Jones, who performed 5 Tests and 61 ODIs between 1998 and 2003, mentioned it could be magnificent to inform the historical past of the ladies’s sport between the 2 international locations and people concerned via such a trophy.
She mentioned the title(s) to adorn any such trophy would possibly greatest be determined by public enter through social media. She took the names of stalwarts Sanath Ragaswamy and Margaret Jennings from a historic context.
“To talk about Sanath Ragaswamy and Marg Jennings and all those players from that first Test in Perth, to get those to the forefront again would be wonderful,” she mentioned.
The first ladies’s worldwide between India and Australia was a one-off Test on the WACA in January 1977 (which Australia gained by 147 runs) and their inaugural limited-overs assembly got here at a ladies’s World Cup match in Patna in 1978 (Australia gained by 71 runs).
Australia was captained in each these historic matches by opener-keeper Jennings, whereas India’s skippers have been Shantha of their maiden Test and Diana Edulji on the 1978 World Cup (which Australia in the end gained).
Jones mentioned endorsement of an acceptable trophy design could possibly be step one to such a perpetual trophy after which use the upcoming India tour of Australia in addition to any reciprocal go to by Meg Lanning’s group to the subcontinent as autos to drive public consciousness and gauge suggestions.
Cricket Australia’s interim chief govt officer Nick Hockley advised cricket.com.au earlier this week the creation of a brand new trophy was “something we probably need to think about” and added that the multi-format idea was integral to the continued evolution of the ladies’s worldwide sport.
