Proteas women

Regardless of what happened in their forgettable Cricket World Cup semi-final against England in Christchurch on Thursday, the Proteas women's ladies team ...

It's worth remembering that women have shorter careers in sport and they still have to juggle families, academics and the need to set up a life outside of the game. They emerged top of their group, but the rain in Sydney and an ascendant home team in Australia got in their way in the semi-finals to rob them of a spot in the final. It perhaps still comes as a surprise that the women's teams in soccer and cricket are outdoing their better-resourced men's sides, but with the regularity of their excellence, it shouldn't.