But then, you see what I just did there? I tried to describe a woman by comparing her to a man. And this is the problem that women’s cricket – or indeed women’s sport in general – often faces. Women’s cricket, with its emphasis on deft little flicks and sweeps, on deception and control with the ball – and occasionally brute force too – is a subtly different game from men’s. So how do we talk about female athletes, when the overwhelming part of our experience, all our terms and slang and frames of reference, come from watching men? Should we talk about them differently, or just the same? Should women’s sport be played alongside men’s as at Wimbledon, or should we let it grow and flourish and develop a character all of its own? Are they batters or batsmen? These are questions that cricket, like many other sports, is still trying to answer.