Anya Shrubsole’s six-for led England to their fourth World Cup title © Getty Images
Following England medium-pacer Anya Shrubsole’s match-winning six-for at the Women’s World Cup final, the Marylebone Cricket Club has approved the decision to introduce an ODI honours board for both men’s and women’s cricketers. At the moment, the honours boards at the venue are earmarked only for five-wicket hauls and centuries in Test cricket.
MCC’s chief executive, Derek Brewer, told the Telegraph that the club is planning to add the new board to recognise the exemplary feats of cricketers in the 50-over format. “We are looking into an honours board in one-day cricket for everybody,” he said. “There are some practical issues we have to address first, such as where it will be situated and how long back in time we go but it is certainly on our minds and an ODI honours board for both men and women would be the way forward.”
Lord’s, which gave admittance to women as members only after 1999, hosted a sell-out crowd on Sunday as India’s dramatic collapse handed England their fourth World Cup title. Following the success of the widely watched final, Gerald Corbett, the club’s chairman, told cricket.com.au that “Lord’s is changing”.
“We are much more open than we were. As the game changes we have to be at the heart of all those changes, whether it is T20, one day or women’s cricket because we are the home of cricket.”
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