Talk:2009 Women's Cricket World Cup final

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Fowler&amp;fowler «Talk»  17:57, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 1) Quote for the Background section: "Expansion of the women’s game was relatively rapid after the ICC involvement; in 2009, the [CC Women’s World Cup was played in Australia. Six teams automatically qualified, and these were Australia, New Zealand, England, Sri Lanka, India and the West Indies; this was decided after they finished within the top six in 2005. South Africa and Pakistan then qualified after a World Cup qualifier held in South Africa. This was the first time a qualifier had been played for the women’s game." (p. 102)  Quote for the background section: "The 2009 World Cup was the first tournament to receive global televised coverage and the extent to which the women's game can evoke feelings of national identity and pride is yet to be seen. ..."
 * 2) Quote for use in the Aftermath section: "At a local level, women’s cricket has benefited from the encouragement of the ECB.*’ Also important has been the success of the England women’s team. In 2009, a headline on the Hayes website proclaimed, ‘England Win World Cup with help from Hayes!’ The report began: ‘Congratulations to Lydia Greenway and the England women’s cricket team who won the World Cup during March in a tight final against New Zealand — Lydia has played all her cricket at Hayes and has been a regular in the England side for the past 5 years and we are all extremely proud of her achievements — an example to us all that hard work and commitment does pay-off. We look forward to welcoming Lydia and her medal back to Hayes!’ Some women’s clubs have even chosen to amalgamate with the local men's team.”” And at Denstone College in Staffordshire, in 2006, a woman was appointed to the post of director of cricket for the first time.!" (p. 125)
 * 3)  Quote: (important for context, background, and WP:DUE, for fixing notability from the perspective of the year 2020): "The International Women’s Cricket Council (IWCC) was formed in 1958 to replace the English Women’s Cricket Association (WCA) as the coordinator of the women’s game. In 2005, the IWCC merged with the International Cricket Council (ICC) with the intended purpose of enhancing the development of both the men and women’s game. Test cricket has been mainly been played by England, Australia and New Zealand. As in the men’s game, Ashes test match between England and Australia is the most famous women’s test match. One of the popular forms of the game since the merging of the IWCC and the ICC have been the One Day International (ODI) Championship which culminates in a World Cup every four years. The first World Cup was played in 1973 in England with the support of businessman Sir Jack Hayward who contributed forty thousand pounds and a major role was played by Rachel Hayhoe-Flint, the former English captain in roping the sponsorship. The ODI World Cup have been dominated by Australia with six wins England was the 2017 champions defeating India; the next World Cup is scheduled for New Zealand in 2021."
 * 4) Landmark book.  The first academic study of the history of women's cricket.  It is important for context.  Here are a few quotes.  Quote 1: "In the summer of 1993, England hosted the fifth women’s World Cup. In every quarter, the tournament was heralded as a great success for English women’s cricket: the final at Lord’s was watched by 4,500 spectators (probably the largest crowd at a women’s international in England since the 1950s), including Prime Minister John Major, and crucially, England defied the odds to win the tournament. The BBC featured live coverage of the final on Grandstand, watched by 2.5 million viewers, and the following day saw women’s cricket dominate the front and back pages of all the national newspapers for the first time in the sport’s long history. (Kindle location 6473 of 9710, 67%)"  Quote 2: (a reference to the sexist reporting in the male-dominated sports press in the 2009 final (the picture accompanying the final is incorrect): "A good example is the fact that, while media coverage of women’s cricket has grown since 2000, coverage increasingly appears to compare women’s cricket with the men’s game, and to treat the male version as ‘real cricket’. This 2009 piece from the Daily Telegraph in the wake of England’s World Cup victory (see Figure 15 (wrong picture)) is typical: "'[Claire] Taylor regularly plays with men’s teams, and I don’t see why this shouldn’t be carried to its logical conclusion. The recent pitiful performance of the England [men’s] team against very ordinary opposition has been not least because so many of them were playing like a bunch of girls — though not nearly so well as girls like Miss Taylor. Pick her to play against the Australians this summer, for heaven’s sake. She might do a proper man’s job on behalf of her country.'"The most talented female players, as this suggests, are seen to be ‘batting like men’.Even while their physical abilities challenge norms of femininity, the stereotype of female frailty is still being reinforced by the male-dominated sporting press." (Kindle location 7916 of 9710)
 * 5) Note: This book is not reliable.  The author does not seem to have a background in cricket reporting or writing.
 * 6) (different edition)
 * 7) Quote, which hints at wide divergence in the skills and training of the different competing nations: "For the first time a World Cup qualifying event took place in South Africa, with Zimbabwe and Bermuda taking part. In the 2009 World Cup, held in Australia. eight teams took part: England. New Zealand, Sri Lanka, India, West Indies, Australia, Pakistan, South Africa (ICC, 2009). In the Twenty20 world cup, held in England in 2009. ... There is however evidence to suggest that there is large gap growing between teams with Australia, India, New Zealand and England tending to dominate other cricket playing nations. In the 2009 World Cup, South Africa, Pakistan and the West Indies were bowled out more than once for under 100 runs (ICC, 2009). This suggests that the development of cricket for women in some countries is far behind other cricketing nations. The reasons for this are complex, but are related to the economic, cultural and political history of each country as well as particular gender relations of power and control operating within those nations."
 * 8) Booth, Lawrence, "England’s women have the world at their feet: Team can complete a historic treble by winning the World Twenty20 final against New Zealand at Lord’s today,", Sunday June 21 2009, 1.00am BST, The Sunday Times (subscription required). This is mainly about a different final but talks about the aftermath of the 2009 World Cup in Sydney. Quote (for the Aftermath section): "The contrasting fates of the two captains after that World Cup final in March reveal a lot about the advantage England have over the rest of the world. While Edwards had the continued backing of the board, New Zealand's Haidee Tiffen cited a loss of earnings on tour as her reason for stepping down. "If I was paid properly, I'd still be playing," she wrote on the Cricinfo website. The amateurism of the opposition is doing England's cause no harm at all, and Taylor believes the structure put in place by the England hierarchy is maintaining their edge."  Quote (for the background section): "Crucial to England's rise to the top of the women's game was the introduction in April 2008 of eight coaching contracts - five full-time, three part-time - and the players queue up to praise the backing they received from the England and Wales Cricket Board. "
 * 9) Wilde, Simon, "Bat women: one England side keeps winning: World Cup final against New Zealand is a fair reward for the vision and planning of the ECB and hard work of the squad," Sunday March 22 2009, 12.00am GMT, The Times  This is a long article appropriate for content needed in the Background section, and to the 2009 final; it was written on March 22.  (Subscription required).  Example1: "Possibly the key move was the decision to place up to 10 players on contracts last April. These are not the playing contracts awarded to the men but arrangements by which the player is paid to spend 25 hours a week, eight months a year, coaching the game in state schools. This kills several birds with one stone. A future generation of players is being cultivated (the ECB claims a 49% rise in female participation in the past year). The top players need worry less how to make ends meet (too many players were giving up in their late twenties). And because the contracts are flexible, players can fit the coaching work around their own training and playing schedules. Officially, the contracted players are not professionals. Their coaching work is done under the umbrella of the charitable Chance to Shine project and they continue to draw athlete funding from Sport England. They do not get rich playing cricket — their earnings are undisclosed but believed to be less than £40,000 — although they have never been better off." Example 2: There was some tough talking before today’s final. Edwards, who has been on the losing side in two semi-finals, implored her players to keep going, telling them the job remained only half-done and that today marked the biggest day of their lives. Gary Stead, the New Zealand coach, demanded that his charges go hard at England from the outset. 'Smash them off the ground,' he said."
 * 10) Maul, Rob, "Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year: roll of honour," Tuesday November 03 2009, 8.06pm GMT, The Times  (For Aftermath section): "Team of the Year – England women’s cricket team: Not since the 1950s, the halcyon days for the sport, has English cricket been able to boast that it possesses a champion team — undisputed champions, that is, in all forms of the game — but the past 11 months have managed to dispel that notion. The England women’s team, virtually dominant every time they have picked up a bat or ball, arguably enjoyed the perfect season, winning every competition that they contested. It would be interesting to see if there is any room left in the trophy cabinet. Superbly led by captain Charlotte Edwards, the women’s cricketers were crowned ICC (50-over) World Cup champions in Sydney in March, for the third time in their history but the first time abroad; ... Presented by: Bryony Shaw, Olympic bronze-medal winning windsurfer."
 * 11) "Meet our new world champions: The England women's cricket team," Monday 23 March 2009 02:23, Independent (subscription required) Has small details about the team, not included in the WP articles, which can be used judiciously in this article.
 * 1) Wilde, Simon, "Bat women: one England side keeps winning: World Cup final against New Zealand is a fair reward for the vision and planning of the ECB and hard work of the squad," Sunday March 22 2009, 12.00am GMT, The Times  This is a long article appropriate for content needed in the Background section, and to the 2009 final; it was written on March 22.  (Subscription required).  Example1: "Possibly the key move was the decision to place up to 10 players on contracts last April. These are not the playing contracts awarded to the men but arrangements by which the player is paid to spend 25 hours a week, eight months a year, coaching the game in state schools. This kills several birds with one stone. A future generation of players is being cultivated (the ECB claims a 49% rise in female participation in the past year). The top players need worry less how to make ends meet (too many players were giving up in their late twenties). And because the contracts are flexible, players can fit the coaching work around their own training and playing schedules. Officially, the contracted players are not professionals. Their coaching work is done under the umbrella of the charitable Chance to Shine project and they continue to draw athlete funding from Sport England. They do not get rich playing cricket — their earnings are undisclosed but believed to be less than £40,000 — although they have never been better off." Example 2: There was some tough talking before today’s final. Edwards, who has been on the losing side in two semi-finals, implored her players to keep going, telling them the job remained only half-done and that today marked the biggest day of their lives. Gary Stead, the New Zealand coach, demanded that his charges go hard at England from the outset. 'Smash them off the ground,' he said."
 * 2) Maul, Rob, "Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year: roll of honour," Tuesday November 03 2009, 8.06pm GMT, The Times  (For Aftermath section): "Team of the Year – England women’s cricket team: Not since the 1950s, the halcyon days for the sport, has English cricket been able to boast that it possesses a champion team — undisputed champions, that is, in all forms of the game — but the past 11 months have managed to dispel that notion. The England women’s team, virtually dominant every time they have picked up a bat or ball, arguably enjoyed the perfect season, winning every competition that they contested. It would be interesting to see if there is any room left in the trophy cabinet. Superbly led by captain Charlotte Edwards, the women’s cricketers were crowned ICC (50-over) World Cup champions in Sydney in March, for the third time in their history but the first time abroad; ... Presented by: Bryony Shaw, Olympic bronze-medal winning windsurfer."
 * 3) "Meet our new world champions: The England women's cricket team," Monday 23 March 2009 02:23, Independent (subscription required) Has small details about the team, not included in the WP articles, which can be used judiciously in this article.