Cultural change across a sport founded on misogyny is far from straightforward
Len Hutton is reported to have once said that women’s cricket was “absurd, like a man trying to knit”. The comment dates back to 1963, but reading through the report of the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket, it appears there are a number of Len Huttons continuing to lurk within English and Welsh cricket. The report labels them “Type Ks” – white, affluent, middle-class men who still, for the most part, run cricket, and who still treat women’s cricket as, well, a bit of a joke.