First to score ODI 200 runs is Belinda Clark
By tulipstrader
@tulipstrader (1467)
India
February 26, 2010 12:03am CST
The first person to score a One Day International Double Century is Belinda Clark, the former Australian Women's cricket team Captain. She scored 229 against Denmark in 1997. If we keep aside gender bias aside, then she should get the credit for that achievement. The media is biased in its reporting and the ICC itself has become very biased to women. Their achievements should be acknowledged.
1 response
@sudiptacallingu (10879)
• India
26 Feb 10
Well well, somebody should take the ICC to court over this I think…I mean this is serious! I can understand the media and our commentators…after all men’s cricket earns them their bread and butter and supports so much else but ICC should have stepped in and corrected this. As for the ICC I think the least said the better…it has become just another very profitable centre for raking in the moolah…if it had taken its responsibility of promoting all round cricket more seriously then maybe women’s cricket would not have been in the condition it is now. Why don’t they stop the sham of women’s cricket altogether? Nobody goes to watch, nobody’s interested in the records, nobody cheers the ladies or offers them a shoulder to cry in defeat…I mean the very concept of women’s cricket has been reduced to a big joke with leering men on the stands ridiculing the women playing with all sincerity.
@tulipstrader (1467)
• India
26 Feb 10
The media is full of biased people. they dont even know what they talk about. this news item itself came to create a unhealthy situation, by the media. ICC should have kept their record clean, which they did not. media's role is to instigate the feminists and create a negative situation amongst cricket lovers.
I too share the same concern as you do. ICC should promote women's cricket with the same spirit as it promote the men's edition. sadly the women themselves do not come out in large number to cheer when these courageous ladies play. they play to empty stadiums. no effort is made to market the women's version of the game.
here is the link to the news item i got today
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Before-Sachin-there-was-Belinda/H1-Article1-513017.aspx
