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
Deepti Sharma
Annabel Sutherland
Amanjot Kaur
Sophie Ecclestone
Rhianna Southby (wk)
Darcie Brown
Lauren Bell
I think this team could do well in any format: the batting especially looks very strong. Southby has yet to play international cricket, but I'm sure she'd be able to cope.
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 make 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 all my sporting heroes and heroines: Colin Cowdrey and Moeen Ali, Olga Korbut and Anna Pavlova, Emma Pooley, and many others.
(Postscript: I'm pleased to see that most of my selection have been doing well in the current "Hundred" tournament!)
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