Shortlisted for the first round of our Emerging Sports Writers Program, Cat Jones shares her reflection of the 2020 T20 World Cup, one year on. For this sports nut, 2020 has thrown up many challenges. Not being able to play sport, or watch sport in a stadium for the majority of the year has meant …
Siren Collaborator Mary Konstantopoulos reviews the new two-part documentary, The Record, a doco about more than just cricket and an event we’ll all remember forever. In 2016 when a group of cricket executives spoke to the Australian Women’s Cricket team about their vision of filling the MCG for the ICC T20 Women’s World Cup Final …
Compelling and full of drama, heartache and joy, The Record does so much more than simply tell the story of the 2020 T20 World Cup. There’s a moment in The Record—a new documentary from Angela Pippos and Nicole Minchin that tells the story of the 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup—where archival footage from Australia’s …
In what has been a strange year, women’s cricket has lit up the sporting calendar. Mary Konstantopoulos shares her reflections on the year, and WBBL06. Sunday 8 March 2020 was one of the best days of my life. I gathered with 86,173 other people to watch the Australian Women’s Cricket team defeat the Indian Women’s …
Sarah Burt reviews Netflix’s cricket documentary Beyond the Boundary with one big question: can it be both a light and a lesson for women’s sport? What do you get when you cross two Perrys and one hundred dancing cricket bats? Apparently a five-month lockdown and a ban on all live sports… and a documentary full …