Women's cricket, part 2...

Had a beer last night at the Black Swan, with a couple of locals. We chatted about our sporting affiliations: the travails of Hull FC, Six Nations Rugby, the Premier League aspirations of Leeds United. I tossed women’s cricket into the conversational mix, though, as a subject for discussion, it didn’t last long. The guy to my right declaimed, authoritively, that women “can’t play football, can’t play cricket”. The guy to my left asked “Were they playing in the nude?” And that, in terms of conversation, was that…