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I challenged an unjust view of the ideal women’s cricketer. It was the right thing to do | Alex Blackwell
There was a time when there wasn’t a lot of diversity of experience at Cricket Australia for them to see things differently
When I first started in the Australian team, we weren’t paid to play at all. Even the fact that we had our flights, accommodation and uniforms supplied was a huge win for some of my more senior teammates, like Belinda Clark, who’d had to pay their own way to travel to overseas tours earlier on in their careers. When we started to be paid as cricketers, part of our contracts included work to promote the game, which we all did quite happily.
Then one day the whole Australian squad received an email, announcing that three players – Ellyse Perry, Meg Lanning and Holly Ferling – had been awarded marketing contracts and congratulating them for this achievement. Eventually that list was extended to four players and Alyssa Healy joined the others. I was quite confused when I received the email because I hadn’t heard anything about these marketing contracts being available and in my view we were all working hard on promoting the game.
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