Ashes will 証明する to be a seminal moment for women´s cricket - Isa Guha
Isa Guha believes Heather Knight’s England can 完全にする a remarkable turnaround to 勝利，勝つ the Women’s Ashes but feels the series has already proven to be a “seminal moment” for the sport.
England were 6-0 負かす／撃墜する in the multi-判型 series after 狭くする 敗北・負かすs in the one-off 実験（する） and the 開始 T20 at Edgbaston last month, but have 攻撃する，衝突する 支援する to 勝利，勝つ the next three matches to level up the 得点する／非難する／２０s and victories in the final two ODIs over the next week will see them 埋め立てる the urn.
下落する 外交官／大使 Guha has been across the 活動／戦闘 as part of both Sky Sports and BBC’s ニュース報道 and agrees with England bowler Kate Cross that the aura of world 支持する／優勝者s Australia has slowly been chipped away.
She told the PA news 機関: “For me I always believed they could （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Australia, but it was a question of whether they did. Then there is one thing believing it and another thing 現実に doing it.
“There were so many times on that last Ashes 小旅行する where they would get themselves into positions to 勝利，勝つ and almost psychologically break 負かす／撃墜する and not believe they could really get over the line against Australia.
“Something I heard from Kate Cross was they have taken away the Australians aura and that is what has 許すd them to 勝利，勝つ these games.
“That ruthlessness to have the composure in the big moments is what had been 欠如（する）ing, but now they have won games it will 打ち明ける their 可能性のある even more, so that is what makes it even more exciting.”
Each match of the series has 供給するd 新たな展開s and turns with different starring 役割s ? Tammy Beaumont hitting 208 in the 実験（する） at Trent 橋（渡しをする） while Sophie Ecclestone （人命などを）奪う，主張するd a 10-wicket 運ぶ／漁獲高.
Since the 判型 switched to white-ball cricket, Sophia Dunkley, Danni Wyatt, Alice Capsey and Knight have all had 重要な 出資／貢献s and in doing so その上の 固く結び付けるd their place as 役割 models for the next 世代.
Ex-seamer Guha ? 伴う／関わるd in three successful Ashes series as a player ? feels the 衝撃 of this summer’s 戦う／戦い will be 重要な 関わりなく the results in the final two ODIs at the A geas Bowl (Sunday) and Taunton (Tuesday).
“I always knew it could be,” Guha 反映するd when asked if she 心配するd such a thrilling series.
“There was always a feeling it could be possible, but it is mad.
“I remember 存在 part of the 2005 Ashes and we were spurring each other on. People didn’t really know we were playing 支援する then so that is probably the difference to now but there is something in the 空気／公表する. It feels a really seminal moment for our sport.
Heather Knight (権利) and Kate Cross celebrate Wednesday´s T20 victory (David Davies/PA)
“I think women’s cricket is only going in one way. It is the fastest growing area of our sport and to see that 投資 支払う／賃金ing off, that makes us all feel good about the bigger picture of women’s cricket at the 最高の，を越す level.
“There is still a lot more to be done at grassroots level and in the pathways, but certainly the inspiration that is coming out of this whole series is incredible.
“To have a team that is competing with arguably the greatest team that has ever been, yeah that is enough to get excited about. Whatever the result, it has certainly been a 勝利，勝つ for the sport.”
Both the women’s and men’s Ashes are 存在 played against the 背景 of cricket’s struggle to rid the game of 差別.
The 独立した・無所属 （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 for 公正，普通株主権 in Cricket (ICEC) 報告（する）／憶測 published last month identified ingrained 人種差別主義, sexism and classism within the sport in England and むちの跡s, with の中で its 重要な 推薦s that there be 即座の equality in men’s and women’s international match 料金s.
Guha 最高潮の場面d the 見解（をとる）ing 人物／姿／数字s when 反映するing on the need for equal 支払う／賃金.
She 追加するd: “The numbers are there for everyone to see 同様に.
“This is one I thought was really amazing. On Sky 965,000 watched England （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Australia over four days in the third men’s 実験（する） at Headingley, so that is a daily 人物／姿／数字 while 795,000 watched Heather Knight’s 味方する 勝利，勝つ (the T20) on Saturday night.
“If there is any 証拠 the girls need to be paid more, there you go.
“The argument that always comes around is how many eyeballs they get and that is the perfect example of how women’s cricket is 存在 逮捕（する）d. It has 逮捕（する）d the imagination of the 全住民.”
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