Meg Lanning: Women’s Tests needs to be performed extra or by no means

Women’s Test ought to both be performed extra or shouldn’t be performed in any respect reckons former Australia captain Meg Lanning.

In the final decade, solely Australia (7), England (9), India (6), and South Africa (2) have performed at the least one Test match. All of them have been a one-off video games a part of multi-format sequence.

“If you really want the games to be a good contest and more nations to play and players to understand the game a little bit more, I think we probably need to play more. Or you go the other way, and you don’t play any at all and you focus on the short-format stuff,” Lanning, who not too long ago retired from worldwide cricket, mentioned as quoted by AAP.

During her 13-year-long worldwide profession, Lanning performed 235 restricted over video games and solely six Tests. “It’s really difficult to prepare for a Test match,” Lanning mentioned. “In my career, we were playing once every two years. It takes us two days to work out how to play it again, and then the Test is over,” the 31-year-old mentioned.

Australia subsequent performs a Test in opposition to South Africa at WACA in mid-february, making it its third Test in final yr. But Lanning mentioned: “That’s great if that means there can be more Tests in the calendar, I think that’ll happen over time. But that’s where I sit on it. It’s either more or you sort of don’t go there at all because I think once every so often is pretty difficult as a player.”