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NEIL MANTHORP: In many ways the women’s game is ahead of the men’s
Cricket SA acting CEO Thabang Moroe was bang on the money when he was banging on about the money last week, especially when he said the Momentum Women’s Proteas players should be paid the same as the men. It is most certainly a conversation we should have. South African sport is as guilty as local business of not doing enough to close the gender pay gap and of perpetuating the unspoken myth of male superiority. Here’s an example: at a magnificently hosted and presented annual awards function at the weekend, national captain Dane van Niekerk was named SA Women’s Cricketer of the Year while Kagiso Rabada was named SA Cricketer of the Year. The majority of male cricketers I have spoken to are of the opinion (when "safe" and among themselves) that women’s international cricket is of an equivalent standard to men’s club cricket. They reckon the 1st XIs of any traditional cricket-playing school would beat the national women’s team. It is a typically banal argument — and irrelevant, by the...
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