A rising star of women’s cricket
Oh Pink News do stop lying.
Star cricket player attacked for being trans after scoring four centuries
No. Criticised for competing against women, i.e. cheating.
A rising star of women’s cricket has become the target of an anti-trans campaign group.
Because it’s women’s cricket, and the “rising star” has a large male body. The rising star has an unfair advantage, which is cheating.
Maxine Blythin has wowed cricket fans in her first season for Kent Women’s Cricket, hitting four centuries and amassing a batting average of 124.
Because of the male body. Makes it look easy, doesn’t it.
Her position on the team has led to anti-trans abuse from the group Fair Play for Women, who have misgendered her and questioned the validity of her place on the team.
That’s not abuse. What Blythin is doing is abuse; saying so is not. There is no “validity” to Blythin’s place on the team, because it’s a women’s team and Blythin has a male body.
Pink News is a misogynist sewer.
I somehow am reminded of a Key & Peele sketch. Choice quotations:
–”You don’t like my music ’cause I’m gay.”
–”You can’t hand hearin’ about how I’m gay.”
–”You don’t wanna see a close-up picture of my ass, ’cause you hate gay men!”
–”Ooooh, I get it. I’m not persecuted—I’m just an asshole.”
For those not familiar with cricket, a batting average of 124 is ridiculous. The all-times men’s record for first class cricket, held by Don Bradman, is 95.14. But Bradman was a freak. No. 2, Vijay Merchant, is only 71.64.
Is Blythin 25% better than the greatest of all time or in the wrong competition?
Simon, thank you. I was asking my husband about that last night, but cricket is about the only sport he doesn’t follow and he didn’t know.
Oh, I didn’t know that either, I know nothing about cricket apart from what it looks like. Good grief. Wouldn’t you think everyone involved would just be embarrassed?
Huh, that’s pretty good. Startling, even. I wonder what gives her that edge…
Bradmans average is in Test Cricket, the 5 day pinnacle of the game. In ZSheffield Shield, Australia’s 4 day fkrmat, Bra dman averaged 110 and Barry Richards 102, so hisher average is possible.
But yeah, still achieved by cheating
#2 Simon
Yes I was looking for her stats on Kent’s wiki page and on Kent’s squad page, but county level cricket is very spotty in how it is recorded and in frequency of its updates. As an example, Maxine is not recorded as a squad member on their main page, but is listed as a member of the “T20” squad in a Kent Cricket Newsletter.
The go-to site for cricket stats, cricinfo, has only a limited number of games listed for Blythin, spanning only May to June 2019. But I did find a page of cricket stats for Maxine on another (more local/less official?) site, Play-Cricket, and holy shit what a season! a century rate of 57%, when the aforementioned Don Bradman’s century rate is only 35%.
Reminder: Donald Bradman is easily the most legendary cricketer to have lived.
People need to realise when she plays club cricket for St.Lawrence Ladies in Southern League she often faces players of 12 years of age upwards and even sometimes women’s team can’t always field eleven players. She is therefore bullying young girls to all corners, some of which will be put off from playing cricket for life. It’s already on record she put a team mate at Kent County Cricket Club out of the game when driving ball back hard at her at the non-strikers end, injured girl could not continue. This madness needs to stop now. What is going on in the dressing rooms as she shouldn’t be sharing with anyone under the age of 18.
Nor any woman over the age of 18 who doesn’t want to share a dressing room with a male bodied person.
Lets check Ruth, B.’s stats during his off-season Little League play.
Ok if I rock up at Kent next year telling them I also identify as a woman will they pick me. I play a far higher standard than Max(ine) ever did. I would probably be the No.1 all rounder in the World in the Women’s game. Move over Elyse Perry I bowl quicker than you and hit the ball further. I would be made up for life, all over the front pages. I might even consider waxing my bikin line, chest and arse if they give me a full time contract, easy money. Hands up who wants to join let’s see how many blokes we can get into women’s County Championship.
Seriously girls just refuse to play against him then everything stops dead in the water…..just saying be braver especially all those girls playing for Kent refuse to play etc. Game over as Maxine would be left playing with herself.
Just to add if the opposition refused to play against him what would the ECB do. Women stand up to this bullying otherwise you won’t have any sport of your own. Next they will make all sport open, men against all comers. If Conor McGregor changed his name to Connie and wanted to fight Kathy Taylor would they allow it, no, so what’s different in Maxine’s case. I understand he/she has same girlfriend from when he/she identified as a man. Must have been a lesbian trapped inside a man or there’s just some things you can’t give up inthe persuit of making money and grabbing headlines. Maxine loves herself and any attention, trust me I know I was a woman in a former life trapped inside my own mind.
The problem with this is that it shuts the girls out of the sports they love and in some cases have trained for for years. Yes, in the long term it might preserve those sports for women, but these girls would be effectively out of the game, and probably blackballed, so they aren’t going to do that.
While I sympathize with this approach, it is once again shunting aside the women, making them give up their dreams to accomplish something in the long term that will benefit others, but rarely them. It’s like why so few women spoke out about Harvey Weinstein. Keeping their mouths shut was the only way they could have a career, because the women were punished.
The only way it would work is to have mass buy-in, and that so rarely happens because of the loss of opportunities. I think the better option is for those who watch the sports to boycott, and make sure the networks/team owners/rules committees know why they aren’t watching. It’s the consumer, not the worker, that usually has the biggest effect, because that translates into money lost.
Interestingly within her own club there is unrest due to her singular ambition to receive recognition securing a contract, which The Times have confirmed this is her ultimate goal. Check out the scorecards at either Southern League or St Lawrence cc, as every game she is running her batting partners out i.e. no concern for others. She has also let slip she wants to now play for Middlesex having moved away from living in Kent. It’s part of a masterplan as 100 ball competition is not being played in Kent the venues and franchises will be based at Lords and The Oval. We are looking at a very manipulative personality. Who was this so called person at St.Lawrence CC who recommmended her to Kent CC. She wasn’t in the original invited squad as Kent website will confirm, not in team photo or individual ones. Who was the poor girl who lost her place to this man, no thought for her as she is the true victim here. This is a sorry mess how is she been allowed to bully her way into this situation, I suspect she is loving all this attention. The poor innocent young girls who have to play with and against her, what about their feelings do they not matter?
The high scores are probably because women’s sports are designed for women’s bodies. I read on another blog that women’s cricket has lighter bats and closer goals – or something like that. (Sorry, I’m American.) I know women’s basketball uses a smaller ball and I believe a lower net as well. So a largish guy could totally dominate.