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England champions of the ICC Women's World Cup 2017

JaDed said:
They are good period,they lost a match and if you think this is choking check out the other chases of this tournament to realize this was actually a very good effort but we couldn't close it,not sure what's with the point scoring here, RR of 6 while chasing in women's matches is very hard.

Indian Women's team is as good as any,they lost today but have played well throughout the tournament.
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What I am saying is that they lost today because they weren't good enough to win. India didn't deserve the World Cup so they didn't get it.
 
To me this was a massive choke job. Got overwhelmed by the occasion.

At around 180/4, this was a walk in the park. Brainless runouts has increased the pressure. England tried hard to lose this by dropping sitters. Yet Indian women did not take any advantage.

The moment Kaur threw it away, it was all down hill from there. No one else inthe team believed they could win.

This was a much needed win for Indian women to generate interest in the public for the women's game. But they blew it.

Mithali Raj should retire from ODI's. She is not a hitter and her s/r is atrocious. Kaur should be made the captain.
 
Tamsin Beaumont was named player of the ICC Women’s World Cup after England won its fourth title at Lord’s on Sunday.

The opener, who was playing in her maiden world cup, scored 23 in the final as England scored 228 for seven. India, in its turn at the wicket, was dismissed for 219.

The 26-year-old from Dover finished the tournament as the most successful batter with 410 runs in nine matches at an average of 45.55.

Beaumont started slowly in the tournament when she managed only 40 runs in the first three matches, but turned things around against South Africa in Bristol when she scored a magnificent 148 from 145 balls with 22 fours and a six.

Her other knocks included 14 against India in the tournament opener in Derby, 14 against Pakistan in Leicester, 12 against Sri Lanka in Taunton, 49 against Australia in Bristol, 93 against New Zealand in Derby, 42 against the West Indies in Bristol and 15 in the semi-final against South Africa in Bristol.

Beaumont was selected as the Player of the Tournament by a five-person selection panel that comprised Geoff Allardice (ICC General Manager – Cricket, and Chairman Event Technical Committee), former England captain Charlotte Edwards, former Australia all-rounder Lisa Sthalekar, former West Indies fast bowler Ian Bishop and former India player turned journalist Snehal Pradhan.
 
shaz619 said:
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The sun never sets on the empire...:boycott
 
India lose another final in the space of a few weeks:)) Needless to say I was supporting England in the final like I would have done Pak. India will be kicking themselves having been in such a good position then losing 7 wickets for 30 runs or something. Well done England, awesome!
 
[MENTION=46929]shaz619[/MENTION] i didnt watch any of it tbh bar cricinfo clips. But i have listened to Isa before she is a really good commentator.
 
Feeling proud of the girls. They hardly get a fraction of the fame, encouragement and remuneration as compared to their male counterparts but showed a thousand times more heart and courage in this tournament than the men did in the Champions Trophy final. Kohli and Co. should be ashamed of themselves, the pampered millionaires couldn't even put up a fight and humiliated 1.3 billion Indians by coming back home losing like a minnow by 180 runs. Better we switch the Contracted amounts between the men and women. These IPL Supastars deserve nothing, good for nothing money scrounging selfish egotistical fools.
 
What a match it was. Wanted India to win but great fightback from English girls. I thought Indians were too nervous in the end. But it's okay as Sarah Taylor's team won.
Congratulations to English and we'll played India .
 
Thank God England won. Had India done so we would have kept hearing about how brilliant their women are for the next 10 years.
 
PakLFC said:
Thank God England won. Had India done so we would have kept hearing about how brilliant their women are for the next 10 years.
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Indian women are brilliant (and not just in cricket). You're going to hear that for a *lot* longer than 10 years. With increasingly frequency actually.
 
English August said:
Indian women are brilliant (and not just in cricket). You're going to hear that for a *lot* longer than 10 years. With increasingly frequency actually.
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No they are not any more brilliant then ladies of any other community at all. Even had they won the little WC most of the world would not have took any notice. The world is not hearing any more or less about them in terms of success then other ladies of the world. Only Indian people overrate themselves.
 
PakLFC said:
No they are not any more brilliant then ladies of any other community at all. Even had they won the little WC most of the world would not have took any notice. The world is not hearing any more or less about them in terms of success then other ladies of the world. Only Indian people overrate themselves.
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Kuchch log fir ro rahein hain ... :)

Also, India is a country and not a community. And now repeat after me: Indian women are brilliant!
 
The ICC Women's World Cup 2017

What a fightback from England, what a win! They´ll remember this for the ages to come, as will India I´m afraid. The question is not whether, in a women´s game, and that too in a world cup final, the target of 229 was indeed a tough ask, because even if it was, all the hardwork was done for 90% of the match. The most important piece of information from the match forever go down as 38 needed off 44 with seven wickets in hand. Should´ve been a cakewalk from thereon. The lower-order and the tail bottled it, and very badly. Atrocious and mindless batting snatched away their world cup for the taking. I´m not really a fan of their women´s team and don´t follow them much, but it would´ve been good for the game if a team other than Australia or England had won a world cup for a change. And England gave them chances mind you in the field, so they were under tremendous pressure throughout.

Anya Shrubsole pulled of one of the ODI greatest spells of all times. Kudos to her!
 
The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced the Team of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 with India’s Mithali Raj as its captain.

The 34-year-old from Hyderabad in southern India, was selected as captain after she led her side by example by scoring 409 runs in the 30-day tournament, which inspired India to reach only its second final, first in 12 years, where it lost to England by nine runs in one of the most thrilling finals in front of a packed to capacity Lord’s.

Raj was at her best in a virtual quarter-final against New Zealand in Derby when she scored 109 to steer her side to 186 runs victory. In the semi-final against Australia, the number-two ranked batter in the world scored 36, while in the final against England, she scored 17 before being run-out.

Her other scores in the tournament were 71 against England in the tournament opener in Derby, 46 against the West Indies in Taunton, eight against Pakistan in Derby, 53 against Sri Lanka in Derby, zero against South Africa in Leicester and 69 against Australia in Bristol.

The side comprises four players from England, including player of the tournament Tamsin Beaumont, player of the final Anya Shrubsole, wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor and left-arm spinner Alex Hartley; Harmanpreet Kaur and Deepti Sharma along with Raj from India; three from South Africa including opener Laura Wolvaardt and bowlers Marizanne Kapp and Dane van Niekerk, and Australia all-rounder Ellyse Perry.

England’s Natalie Sciver, who scored 369 runs and took seven wickets, was chosen as the 12th player.

Raj, Taylor and Shrubsole have been picked in the Team of the Tournament for the second time in their careers. Raj and Taylor were selected in the Team of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2009, which England won in Sydney in 2009, while Shrubsole was named in the Team of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2013, which Australia won in India in January/February 2013.

Team of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 (in batting order):

Tamsin Beaumont (England) – 410 runs
Laura Wolvaardt (South Africa) – 324 runs
Mithali Raj (captain) (India) – 409 runs
Ellyse Perry (Australia) – 404 runs and nine wickets
Sarah Taylor (wicketkeeper) (England) – 396 runs, four catches and two stumpings
Harmanpreet Kaur (India) – 359 runs and five wickets
Deepti Sharma (India) – 216 runs and 12 wickets
Marizanne Kapp (South Africa) – 13 wickets
Dane van Niekerk (South Africa) – 99 runs and 15 wickets
Anya Shrubsole (England) – 12 wickets
Alex Hartley (England) – 10 wickets
Natalie Sciver (12th) (England) – 369 runs and seven wickets

The Team of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 was selected by a five-person selection panel that comprised Geoff Allardice (ICC General Manager – Cricket, and Chairman Event Technical Committee), former West Indies fast bowler Ian Bishop, former England captain Charlotte Edwards, former India player turned journalist Snehal Pradhan and former Australia all-rounder Lisa Sthalekar.
 
Sadly no Pakistani Women in the team of the tournament. Can't really say that any of them deserved to be there. PCB has a lot of revamping and restructuring to do in regards to making sure our women's team competes at the international level.
 
Congratulations to England! Both my teams Mens' Pakistan and England womens take the glory this year. India threw it away but credit to England for fighting all the way.

Im hoping to see a womens cricket match soon.
 
More than 180 million people around the world are estimated to have watched this summer’s ICC Women’s World Cup and there was an almost 300% increase in viewing hours* in comparison to the last edition in 2013. There was significant growth in audiences in all territories, but particularly impressive was an eight-fold increase in viewing hours in South Africa and a huge increase in viewers in India, particularly in rural areas, since 2013.

The ICC’s decision to ensure that every match was available for viewing either on television or via live-streaming as part of its commitment to the global growth of the women’s game has paid dividends. An extraordinary 156 million people viewed the event in India, of which 80 million was rural reach and 126 million were for the final alone. India’s fine performances contributed to a 500% increase in viewing hours in their country.

In the United Kingdom the World Cup final attracted most viewers for any televised cricket this summer, while the entire event saw a 300% increase in terms of viewing hours compared to last time. Similarly, there has been a 131% increase in viewing hours in Australia while it is a whopping 861% in South Africa after its team reached the semifinals for the first time.

ICC Chief Executive David Richardson said: “We are absolutely delighted with the impact the Women’s World Cup has had. Instinctively we felt that the time was right to invest in women’s cricket and take it to the widest possible audience to accelerate the growth of the game and these numbers have confirmed that.

“We congratulate all eight teams for providing the entertainment, the cricket was competitive and compelling and when you have that it makes it much easier to attract an audience. The sport must now work collectively to maintain interest and continue to drive growth.”

ICC Head of Media Rights, Broadcast and Digital, Aarti Dabas: “The broadcast and digital numbers have far exceeded our expectations and have justified our decision to back the women’s game. It all goes to show that there are millions out there who are willing to follow and watch an event like the ICC Women’s World Cup and the details of these numbers are a reflection of that.”

There were 100 million video views across ICC digital platforms and social media channels with one billion impressions and 67 million unique users on Facebook via posts on ICC’s official pages - [MENTION=2099]Cricket[/MENTION]worldcup and @icc.

On Twitter, the hashtag #WWC17 was the most tweeted hashtag for women’s sport in 2017 with one million tweets, which is a 24-time increase over the 2013 edition. The hashtag #WWC17Final was the most tweeted hashtag ever for a women’s sports final while the launch of the first ever captain ‘emojis’ for a country versus country sporting event was a big success with a 875-fold jump in tweets using captains’ hashtags in comparison to the 2013 event.

The event also attracted almost 50,000 articles in print and online across more than 100 countries for the four week period of the event. India leading the list with close to 16,000 articles, the United Kingdom second at 14,000 and Australia third with close to 9,000 articles. The United States of America was fourth at 4,700 while South Africa had 1,368 articles used in all.

https://www.icc-cricket.com/media-releases/447432
 
First game of the Womens Super League starts in an hour on sky sports if anyone's interested.
 
troodon said:
To me this was a massive choke job. Got overwhelmed by the occasion.

At around 180/4, this was a walk in the park. Brainless runouts has increased the pressure. England tried hard to lose this by dropping sitters. Yet Indian women did not take any advantage.

The moment Kaur threw it away, it was all down hill from there. No one else inthe team believed they could win.

This was a much needed win for Indian women to generate interest in the public for the women's game. But they blew it.

Mithali Raj should retire from ODI's. She is not a hitter and her s/r is atrocious. Kaur should be made the captain.
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Had Indian women team won the final, Indian public would have suddenly become enthusiastic about women's cricket. Women's cricket would have taken off thanks to this interest shown by Indian fans and therefore BCCI.

So Indian women cricketers lost far more than just a final. They lost a golden opportunity to launch women's cricket.

England and Australia women can keep winning all these women's titles, but that will not help much in the progress of women's cricket. That tells you something about the people who are behind Women's cricket in these countries.
 
squarecut said:
Had Indian women team won the final, Indian public would have suddenly become enthusiastic about women's cricket. Women's cricket would have taken off thanks to this interest shown by Indian fans and therefore BCCI.

So Indian women cricketers lost far more than just a final. They lost a golden opportunity to launch women's cricket.

England and Australia women can keep winning all these women's titles, but that will not help much in the progress of women's cricket. That tells you something about the people who are behind Women's cricket in these countries.
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When you say 'in these countries' are you referring to countries such as India?
 
No, I am referring to countries that have won women's world cup. Their title wins did not enthuse people to take interest in women's cricket. Things would have been different had Indian women won the title.
 
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Do you were criticising the stronger nations for not giving weaker nations like India sympathy world cup wins to help develop the game...?
 
What I am talking is that Indian women missed a golden opportunity of taking the Women's cricket forward by choking in the final. The loss is women's crickets.

What I am telling is that the ICC is heavily reliant on BCCI to popularise cricket including women's cricket. And BCCI could get interested in popularising women's cricket had Indian women won. I do not see ECB taking any pro active role in popularising women's cricket.

BCCI took lead in popularising men's T20 cricket after Indian men's fortuitous title win in inaugural T20 cricket tournament. Had India lost the final to Pakistan in that T20 tournament, I am sure that BCCI and Indians would not have taken any interest in T20 and T20 leagues that we see all around would not have happened.
 
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squarecut said:
What I am talking is that Indian women missed a golden opportunity of taking the Women's cricket forward by choking in the final. The loss is women's crickets.

What I am telling is that the ICC is heavily reliant on BCCI to popularise cricket including women's cricket. And BCCI could get interested in popularising women's cricket had Indian women won. I do not see ECB taking any pro active role in popularising women's cricket.

BCCI took lead in popularising men's T20 cricket after Indian men's fortuitous title win in inaugural T20 cricket tournament. Had India lost the final to Pakistan in that T20 tournament, I am sure that BCCI and Indians would not have taken any interest in T20 and T20 leagues that we see all around would not have happened.
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So the BCCI starting the IPL was a proactive attempt to popularising mens t20 but the ECB having started the womens super league aren't making any proactive effort to popularising the womens game? Double standards?
 
ECB's pro active attempts do not enthuse people enough and do not catch the attention of people the way BCCI's attempts do.

In men's cricket, the example of IPL in there which was on a far grander scale than anything that ECB could have even envisaged. Today IPL is a bigger global sporting event than EPL. It is that kind of marketing effort that is needed to take women's cricket forward.
 
squarecut said:
ECB's pro active attempts do not enthuse people enough and do not catch the attention of people the way BCCI's attempts do.

In men's cricket, the example of IPL in there which was on a far grander scale than anything that ECB could have even envisaged. Today IPL is a bigger global sporting event than EPL. It is that kind of marketing effort that is needed to take women's cricket forward.
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We've seen one of the first introductions of full time central contracts for women's cricketers, a womens world cup final selling out Lords and even today a few thousand in the ground at 2.30pm on a working day for a televised women's domestic game, to suggest the effort hasn't been put in would be silly.

Yes the IPL is massive in India, but has it really done much globally? In terms of marketing the phrase '**** up in a brewery' comes to mind.
 
The women's world cup final was sold out because Indian women were in final and so Indian audience were interested.

So the lesson is, attract the Indian audience. As for the women's super league, I do not think people outside England know about it. Indians certainly do not know about it. So how many people in the world are following this Women's super league. If Indians are not following, then I assume same is the case in other supcontinent team following cricket. And the bulk of cricket following audience resides here.

So where is this women's cricket being marketed by ECB ? In England only ? Best of luck in that case.
 
squarecut said:
The women's world cup final was sold out because Indian women were in final and so Indian audience were interested.

So the lesson is, attract the Indian audience. As for the women's super league, I do not think people outside England know about it. Indians certainly do not know about it. So how many people in the world are following this Women's super league. If Indians are not following, then I assume same is the case in other supcontinent team following cricket. And the bulk of cricket following audience resides here.

So where is this women's cricket being marketed by ECB ? In England only ? Best of luck in that case.
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The final was sold out before India reached the final with well over half of the ground being sold out before the tournament even started so that logic goes down the drain...

Indians probably don't know much about the KSL because the BCCI do their best to discourage their cricketers going overseas and actually earning both money and experience. Look at the good the BBL did for Harmanpreet Kaur.
 
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There is difference between BCCI and Indian cricket following public. BCCI does not own Indian cricket public but they do sell cricket well to this public, something that ECB are not doing. So it is ECB and ICC are unable to see this women's cricket league in India, it is because that have not tried to.
 
squarecut said:
There is difference between BCCI and Indian cricket following public. BCCI does not own Indian cricket public but they do sell cricket well to this public, something that ECB are not doing. So it is ECB and ICC are unable to see this women's cricket league in India, it is because that have not tried to.
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Not quite sure I get your point, how for example do you suggest the BCCI have marketed the IPL in countries other than India? Foreign players playing in a tournament will play the major part in gathering interest in a tournament in that country.
 
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Right now, Indian public are sold out on Premier Kabbadi League, a sport league that has become the second most popular sporting event in India after IPL. And it is because the PKL organisers have sold their event superbly. So people in India do follow sports be it cricket or even an erstwhile unfashionable sport like Kabaddi, if the sport is properly marketed. This league is being telecast in over 100 nations all over the world.

In how many nations is Women's cricket league being telecast ? It is not being telecast in India, that is for sure.

Any way enough of discussion on women's cricket. As things stand, Indian sporting fans are not interested in Women's cricket, despite ECB "promoting" it.
 
squarecut said:
Right now, Indian public are sold out on Premier Kabbadi League, a sport league that has become the second most popular sporting event in India after IPL. And it is because the PKL organisers have sold their event superbly. So people in India do follow sports be it cricket or even an erstwhile unfashionable sport like Kabaddi, if the sport is properly marketed. This league is being telecast in over 100 nations all over the world.

In how many nations is Women's cricket league being telecast ? It is not being telecast in India, that is for sure.

Any way enough of discussion on women's cricket. As things stand, Indian sporting fans are not interested in Women's cricket, despite ECB "promoting" it.
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Because it's not the ECBs job in any way to be promoting women's cricket in India...?
 
I would have much preferred if ECB had not tried to promote men's T20 in India either. They were hell bent to ensure Indian team's participation in the inaugural T20 tournament and made BCCI to send a team there, even if it was a depleted team.

In any case, it is beyond ECB's capabilities to popularise cricket even in England, forget in India.
 
squarecut said:
I would have much preferred if ECB had not tried to promote men's T20 in India either. They were hell bent to ensure Indian team's participation in the inaugural T20 tournament and made BCCI to send a team there, even if it was a depleted team.

In any case, it is beyond ECB's capabilities to popularise cricket even in England, forget in India.
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Last I checked it was the ICC World t20, not the ECB World T20.
 
It was ICC world T20, but it was promoted by ECB, after they repeatedly failed to win the ODI world cup. Last I checked up, England had not won the ODI world cup despite participating in it since 1975.
 
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