{"id":15974,"date":"2020-12-31T01:42:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T02:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=15974"},"modified":"2020-12-31T06:07:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T06:07:21","slug":"double-standards-womens-cricket-tour-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=15974","title":{"rendered":"Double standards? Women&#039;s cricket tour postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three-match ODI series between the Australian and Indian women&#x27;s teams &#8211; originally scheduled for January 2021 &#8211; has been postponed until next season, with plans to expand the tour to include an additional three Twenty20 internationals.<\/p>\n<p>The postponement raises questions of double standards between the sexes given that the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/australia-v-india-scg-gabba-tests-joe-burns-axed\/e813bf1c-f503-4c0d-9c1c-22f96f9836c6\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Indian men&#x27;s cricket tour of Australia has gone ahead as planned.\">Indian men&#x27;s cricket tour of Australia has gone ahead as planned.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> &quot;We had initially hoped to play India this summer, however the impact of the global pandemic made it necessary to postpone until next season,&quot; Nick Hockley, CA&#x27;s interim CEO said via a press release.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"5741e80e-24d1-439c-9dce-38ca592c7393\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/5741e80e-24d1-439c-9dce-38ca592c7393\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"5064\" data-height=\"3376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We are very hopeful of delivering an expanded schedule between the Australian and Indian women&#x27;s teams for next season, which would be an outstanding result for fans in both countries.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It will be wonderful to once again host the Indian women&#x27;s team, who were centre stage for that unforgettable ICC T20 World Cup final at the MCG in March, and to do so with an expanded schedule from what was originally planned.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"a262f89d-81ca-49dc-afd4-99a47d9e1302\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a262f89d-81ca-49dc-afd4-99a47d9e1302\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"2529\" data-height=\"1686\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In March, Australia defeated India in the T20 women&#x27;s World Cup final in front of a crowd of 86,174.<\/p>\n<p>That broke the national record for women&#x27;s sport attendance &#8211; beating the 53,034 at the 2019 AFLW Grand Final between the Adelaide Crows and Carlton at the Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n<p>Dates and venues for the women&#x27;s ODI series will be confirmed &quot;in due course.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true)\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The three-match ODI series between the Australian and Indian women&#x27;s teams &#8211; originally scheduled for January 2021 &#8211; has been postponed until next season, with <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=15974\" title=\"Double standards? Women&#039;s cricket tour postponed\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15976,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15974\/revisions\/15976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}