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Benedict Bermange
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Watch a live broadcast of all four days of the English and Indian Women’s Test Competition, live on Sky Sports Cricket on Wednesday; Click on the video below to watch Sky Sports ’most memorable 25 years of women’s cricket
Last Updated: 16/06/21 6:30 am
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Watch some of the most memorable moments as Sky Sports celebrates 25 years of covering women’s cricket
Sky Sports is celebrating 25 years of spreading women’s cricket in 2021 by showing more live games than ever before, starting with Wednesday testing in England and India.
Sky Sports is committed to showing 52 live women’s cricket games this year, more than double the previous high score of 249 set in 2019.
Click on the video above to watch some of the most memorable moments from filming Sky Sports ’25-year women’s cricket and read below …
England vs. India
June 16, 2021, at 10:30 a.m.
Go on with life 
Sky first showed women cricket on June 16, 1996, when England played New Zealand in Leicester as the second one-day international of their series. Debbie Hockley scored 75, leading New Zealand to 56 runs. Charlotte Edwards ’international debut was still a month away. Edwards earns 309 tickets in all forms.
Two years later, it was the first Ashes clash when England faced Australia in Derby. Australia finished the winners in this situation with 64 runs, and future commentator Mel Jones scored 58.
The highlight of the 1999 season saw Clare Connor – the future leader of the ECB’s women’s cricket – take the hat trick at the ODI against India.
1:44 Clare Connor, ECB’s female cricket director, describes how both she and English players have experienced cyber-violence and how the sport’s united stance against hatred
The first ever international match for T20 men or women was held in Hove in 2004 between England and New Zealand. It was close to the goal. And three years later, Sky cameras were on hand to see New Zealand’s Amy Satterthwaite recording Taunton’s T20I Series, a world-record-breaking bowling analysis 6-17.
In 2009, the year began when England won the Women’s World Cup in Australia and won the hosts at four gates in the finals to win their first World Championship in 16 years.
England continued to dominate the summer by winning a memorable Australian Women’s World Cup semi-final at The Oval behind a run inspired by Claire Taylor. Two days later, they won the New Zealand final in the Lord to double the World Championship.
1:06 Sarah Taylor is looking forward to retiring and playing with longtime Australian rival Meg Lanning at Welsh Fire at The Hundred
In 2013, Sarah Taylor pulled one of the biggest catches ever seen in Sky Sports to get out of Jodie Fields in Hove, and a few days later a thousand women were defeated again in another T20I in Southampton.
Australia claimed that the T20 final wins of the Women’s World Championships will be won in England in 2012 and 2014. Then in 2015, when the entire women’s ash series was shown live for the first time, Australia won the test competition in 161 rounds and returned two ashes. a week later by winning another T20I in Hove.
England is celebrating the victory of the 2017 Women’s World Championships in front of an audience at Lord’s
2017 was the most memorable year for Sky women’s cricket. England won the Australian Bristol Women’s World Cup group competition in three rounds and won the World Cup final by winning India’s nine rounds in a thriller in front of the sold-out audience at Lord’s. Later that summer, the Kia Super League Final Day was broadcast live on Sky.
It was the second England and Australia final in the women’s world T20 series in 2018, and again it beat Australia – this time by eight gates.
Number of women’s cricket days shown at Sky Sports in recent years:
| Year | Days |
| 2008 | 2 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2010 | 3 |
| 2011 | 4 |
| 2012 | 4 |
| 2013 | 3 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 11 |
| 2018 | 21 |
| 2019 | 24 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2021 | 52 (designed) |
In 2019, another series of women’s Ashes was seen live on Sky Sports. The test race ended in a draw, while Australian Ellyse Perry lit the ODI series with numbers 7-22 in Canterbury, and Meg Lanning 133, who was not out in Chelmsford, was the highlight of the T20I.
On March 8, 2020, Australia won the fifth Women’s World Championships by winning India’s record 86,174 crowns on the Melbourne cricket ground.
Then that summer, the Southern Vipers won the opening Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, while England won the West Indies 5-0 in the T20I Series – all live on Sky Sports.
Watch a live broadcast of all four days of the England and India Women’s Test Competition, live on the Sky Sports Cricket site on Wednesday at 10.30am.
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