This is my ideal women's cricket team, chosen from those currently playing. It is purely a list of those I most enjoy watching, regardless of statistics.
Laura Wolvaardt (capt.)
Danni Wyatt-Hodge
Phoebe Litchfield
Jemimah Rodrigues
Miane Smit
Deepti Sharma
Annabel Sutherland
Amy Jones (wk.)
Sophie Ecclestone
Darcie Brown
Lauren Bell
The batting looks very strong. If another bowler was thought to be needed, then Alana King could replace one of the batters.
It can be seen that (as in other sports too) I prefer those who are supremely talented and often brilliant, but also vulnerable and liable to making mistakes, rather than those who are constantly and reliably successful, so that I'm perpetually on the edge of my seat when watching them. The same has always applied to my heroes and heroines in other sports too: Colin Cowdrey and Moeen Ali, Olga Korbut and Anna Pavlova, Emma Pooley, and many others.
