SKIRT-BEFORE-WICKET
TT is going to be interesting to see X How the Women's Cricket Association will be forced to adapt the rules of cricket to feminine abilities (says an English writer). Physical reasons and clothing are going to be the main causes for any deviations from the men’s rules. Already any W.C.A. match is played with a five-ounce ball, for it was found that very few women could spin and bowl consistently with the full-sized one. A further alteration will probably have to be made. Twice recently it has occurred that a “batsman" in making her stroke missed the ball, which pitched on the wicket. As the batsman was moving, so her skirt swung round and deflected the ball from the wicket. This is obviously hard on the bowler, but when the M.C.C. laws of cricket were framed no possibility of having to legislate for “skirt-before-wicket” was foreseen. If skirts are abolished there will be an outcry against that.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 743, 16 August 1929, Page 6
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