England’s women’s cricket team recently retained the Ashes from Australia - their first overseas Ashes victory - and went on to beat New Zealand in a one-day series. New figures from the England and Wales Cricket Board show there has been a forty five percent increase in the number of women taking up the game compared to twenty seven percent of men. So why’s women’s cricket thriving and how do women compare to their male cricketing counterparts? Jane talks to Simon Hughes from the BBC's Test Match Special and England batswoman Claire Taylor.
