Women's cricket

Clare Johnston spends a lot of time in her back shed in Gippsland, Victoria, estled on a property in Berrys Creek, between Mirboo North and Leongatha.

It doesn’t have to be all about making a dollar, it’s actually, put the effort in now and then that will come.” It’s safety equipment, so we’re asking women to get out there in front of the ball, being whacked around and if it’s not correctly fitted it just makes it less enjoyable or less safe. if I change people’s attitudes.” They’ve also claimed the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup five times since 2010. “Ian said it’d be great if there was someone who worked on women’s cricket bats, that he’d had women come up to him to make bats for them … so they just don’t have that opportunity to test different bats. he knew there was an interest in it … “My purpose in life is to make sure that people have the things that they need to make their life more enjoyable and I think that sort of feeds a little bit into cricket bat making,” she said. “ “I think there is some work to be done by people in physiology or sports movement, kinesiology, to actually start to do the research on it so that we can get that data out there.” “For people who play cricket it’s how it feels in their hands, so they kind of know the weight and the style that they like, but it’s not until they actually pick it up that they know. “Ian was a bat maker himself and he also owned a sports store where I lived when I was a teenager, so I used to pop in there and check out the bats and all sorts of things,” she said.