The Final Frontier

The Maiden Summer

Episode 6 - The Final Frontier: Those at the top of the women's game know there's only one solution if women's cricket is going to thrive, and that's to amalgamate with the men. But how is that going to happen? And who will help deliver it? It takes some inspired help from a future governor general plus several key moments - on field and off - to keep the momentum building. And to set up that golden moment at the MCG in March, 2020, when 86,000 fans turn up to cheer Australia on to win the T20 World Cup.

ABOUT THE MAIDEN SUMMER:
Australian women's cricket has been a feature of our summers for almost 150 years. And today's World Champion Australian team stands proudly on the shoulders of the bold and daring women who have gone before them. Featuring the voices of some of the women who were there and archival audio from the formative periods in Australian and International women's' cricket history, this podcast tells the story of women's fight to play Australia's national sporting pastime.

Written and Narrated by Nick Richardson, visit nickrichardsonwriter.com.au
Production by Chris Plumridge at Jet Streamer, visit jetstreamer.com.au

RESOURCES:
Audio:
Footage supplied by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s Film Australia Collection.
Oral History Collection, the National Library of Australia
Oral history Holdings, the National Museum of Australia
Thanks to Cinesound Movietone Productions

Books:
Jacquie Triffitt, On The Front Foot – The Rise of Tasmanian Women’s Cricket (Forty South Publishing, Hobart, 2021).

https://shop.fortysouth.com.au/products/on-the-front-foot-the-rise-of-tasmanian-womens-cricket-by-jacqui-triffitt-hb

Rafaelle Nicholson, Ladies and Lords: a History of Women’s Cricket in Britain (Peter Lang, Oxford, 2019)

Richard Cashman and Amanda Weaver, Wicket Women – Cricket & Women in Australia (UNSW Press, Kensington, 1991)