Bristol to host first non-Ashes women’s Test since 2014Knight highlights importance of Tests in women’s gameEngland
Women will begin their international season with a Test against
India at Bristol in June in a move which their captain, Heather Knight, hopes will signal a revival of the multi-day format in the women’s game.
With women’s
Cricket now centred on the 50-over and 20-over formats, a Test is a rarity in the calendar, normally confined to a one-off biennial event as part of the multi-format Women’s Ashes, in which points across all three formats are taken into account when deciding the overall series winner. The Bristol match will be the first non-Ashes women’s Test since
South Africa played India in November 2014, the same year
England last played India in the format.