ROLE MODEL: Central Districts Hinds captain Kate Broadmore has been at the Wanganui Festival of Cricket this
week with the Taranaki secondary school girls' development team.
ROLE MODEL: Central Districts Hinds captain Kate Broadmore has been at the Wanganui Festival of Cricket this
week with the Taranaki secondary school girls' development team.
KATE Broadmore says a possible White Ferns recall is now in the hands of selectors.
The Central Hinds captain has been at the Festival of Cricket in Wanganui this week coaching a Taranaki secondary schools girls' side.
Broadmore has been in good touch for CD this summer and is pushingfor a recall to the White Ferns squad for matches against England in February. She last played for the national side at the Twenty20 World Cup in 2012. "I've just got to keep putting some scores on the board and keep getting a couple of wickets. It's up to them at the end of the day. I've done all I can with the bat and ball."
Broadmore's Central Hinds sit in the middle of the pack in the women's domestic one-day competition with three wins from seven games ahead of a trip to Auckland this weekend for two one-dayers. "We're in the hunt. We've got two games against Auckland this week and we know what we've got to do," she said. "If all the results go our way on the table we could be sitting second."
Meanwhile, Broadmore tournaments such as the one under way in Wanganui were good for the development of girls' cricket but the women's game needed to be promoted at the top level to show girls it was a great summer game to get into.
Schools also had a role in promoting the game in school. "It's a fantastic summer sport for girls." She said if it could be promoted like sevens rugby had been among schoolgirls, it could take off.
Having 10 female players contracted to NZ Cricket was a "stepping stone" to growing the women's game.
The Wanganui-Wairarapa team have lost both their 35-over games in the schools development tournament this week. On Monday Manawatu chased down the home side's 136/5 in 22 overs.
