How New Australians Changed Cricket Forever!

probably the changing diversity of the Australian population meant that perhaps a lot of people newly arrived coming to Australia weren't necessarily going to have that automatic connection to cricket. I think about the sort of Southeast Asian populations, I think would, but there were a lot of people coming from countries that had no interest in cricket. And so I think I could see sort of people sort of thinking about, oh, wow, well, we've got 51% of the population that we're really not engaging with. And this is the side of cricket that had the resources, so the men's game. Women have played cricket in Australia for over 120 years, I think. The first Victorian Ladies Cricket Association was established in 1905. So, there was a long history, but not very well recognised, not very well resourced, run predominantly by volunteers, a lot of passionate women. And I think it was really initially an economic decision or interest that, oh, 51% of the population We can't grow the sport, or it's going to be very difficult to grow the sport if we're going to continue to focus on males and noting that the different sort of cultures that were making up the mix of the Australian population.