Mick Hartley

That trans cricketer who's playing for Canada? The Telegraph reports on his first game:

History arrived quietly in a most peculiar setting on Monday afternoon, as cricket entered a new era with Danielle McGahey’s debut for Canada’s Twenty20 women’s national team.

McGahey became the first transgender player to appear in an official international match, at the ICC T20 Americas Qualifier for next year’s World Cup, and if it was big news around the cricket world, it barely made a splash at Woodley Park’s cricket grounds in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley….

The Canadians toppled Brazil on the opening day of the regional qualifying tournament played in a cricket wasteland, and McGahey’s presence was merely noticed.

What it means is uncertain, as is McGahey’s future in the women’s game, but it’s another step into modernity for the sport.

Another step into modernity? Oh please. It's another step backwards for women's sport….