The Women's World Twenty20 cricket tournament has been running concurrently with the men's tournament, and has reached the semi-final stage. Last night (or "yesterday" if you were in the same time-zone as the tournament!) the Aussies beat India to reach the final. Tonight (this afternoon) New Zealand face the West Indian team.
I'm not feeling much like talking lots about the tournament today, and anyway, any information I gave would be gleaned from the link above, so you might as well go there and form your own opinions. But I did want to highlight the pictures from the Australia/India match, and a couple in particular:
Poonham Raut in a classic batting pose. Raut was the kay batter in the Indian team's innings.
http://static.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/117300/117311.jpgEllyse Perry in a classic bowler's action shot pose. Perry did a great job to set up her team mates for the win.
Jhulan Goswami celebrating with her wicket-keeper after taking an early wicket. I can't help imagining how certain elements in society would respond to that image, but I'd rather focus on it as an image of an overjoyed sportsperson in full celebration: again, it's a classic pose from the world of cricket these days.
So I'll just say for now: well done to all the teams who played in the Women's World Twenty20 tournament, and especially well done to the Australian team and whoever will face them in the final.
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