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- Feb 14, 2023
I love this. Cricket - has cricket been infected by troons yet? I don’t think it has, has it? Let’s have cricket month instead. Gentle, English cricket on the village green, the thwack of leather on willow, the clink of ice in the gin and tonic, and a nice break for lunch. Yes, I declare cricket month.
Cricket is a degenerate aristocratic sport played exclusively by Britbongs, Aussies and third worlders (West Indies, Pajeets and Africans), Troons will not infect such a sport as far as I can see into the future. I could be wrong.
Fun fact: Babe Ruth was fascinated by cricket. Cricket’s equivalent, Don Bradman, was fascinated by baseball. They are very similar. Both games take forever, induce enormous levels of autistic statistics-hoarding and spergery about how they’re not really games but well akshually explain [insert your favourite thing here], are played by only a few countries, and are so dull they can be safely ignored by spectators for long stretches of time.
Onto the important question. Cricket’s global governing body, the ICC, has expressly banned anyone who has gone through male puberty from playing women’s cricket at the international level. It did so because Australia selected a Canadian-born male for its international women’s team. At the domestic level, transwomen can play in Australian competitions if their T is below a certain level. At community level, anyone who deeply feels they’re a woman can bowl 100 miles/h bouncers at women’s heads, safe in the knowledge women can’t bowl that fast back at them. I don’t know about other countries’ domestic rules.