, working in women’s cricket. Before the launch, they commissioned a survey of 300 young female cricketers about their experiences. “I know we all feel we have a pretty good idea of what’s going on, but there’s nothing like speaking to people who are coming into the game,” Guha says, “and we were shocked that experiences they were talking about were the same experiences our mentors had had when they were growing up. It made me realise the sport hasn’t moved forward as much as we think it has.
“There were times when I was 12 or 13 when I wanted to quit the game because I felt so isolated,” Guha says. In her case, that loneliness was exacerbated because there were so few British Asian girls playing the game. Guha has been doing a lot of thinking about that. “In the last few years I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on why I was able to succeed when there was such a lack of representation at the England level,” she says. “Asking myself why I was able to get through the system and I realised it was because of the support I had, especially from my mother. It wasn’t just her, but she gave me the confidence and the belief to be able to do what I did.
Surely there has to be an alternative word to 'mentoring' which does not reinforce male dominance?
Still can't stop them being thrashed by any schoolboys u15 side.
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