Cricket Australia invests $4 million into female talentRYAN PIERSE/GETTY IMAGES Cricket Australia's investment will be used to create new competitions for girls. With the inaugural AFL women's competition set to launch next year, he noted that cricket had been running a national women's competition for decades. "It is an important point ... where we want to get to with women's cricket and girls' cricket is having opportunities where there are enough girls to make up a team and girls feel really comfortable in the cricket environment," he said. "You could go and play in a girls' team on Sunday with 10 of your best mates then play boys' cricket on Saturday if you love cricket that much," she said. "But it's a good time to remind everyone that we've had a national competition for women in cricket for over 70 years now in Australia.

Source: Stuff July 13, 2016 08:37 UTC