The coronavirus pandemic stalled all cricket in the world. In Australia, the World T20 was postponed to 2022 while the Test and ODIs against Afghanistan and New Zealand respectively were postponed to 2021. Australia has close to 27,000 cases of the coronavirus with the hotspot being in Victoria. Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, women’s cricket took a backseat with no games played since the end of the ICC World T20 in March.
However, things are slowly returning to normal. The England women’s cricket team is currently playing a five-match T20I series against West Indies in a bio-secure environment in Derby. In Australia, the reigning World T20 champions clashed against New Zealand in the first T20I at Allan Border field in Brisbane.
New Zealand chose to bowl and they had Australia in trouble when Alyssa Healy and Beth Mooney both fell cheaply. Meg Lanning and Rachel…