Frankie Mackay

I think if you ask players, you ask people who are involved with the game, of course you want to see the White Ferns playing test cricket.

I think, I guess the hints in the title really test cricket.

It's where, especially our male contemporaries, it's where they are judged.

It is deemed to be the hardest, most challenging form of the game.

That's a good question.

It's a really good question and it can be a little bit of a tricky one to answer if I'm really honest.

I think if you ask players, you ask people who are involved with the game, of course you want to see the White Ferns playing test cricket.

I think the, I guess the hints in the title really test cricket.

It's where, you know, especially our male contemporaries, it's where they are judged.

It is deemed to be, you know, the hardest, most challenging form of the game and

a test in itself.

So I think when you watch it as a female athlete, you watch it as a fan of the game or a lover of the game, you just want to be involved in it.

So I think if you talk to any players, they would say, of course, our New Zealand representative side should be playing test cricket just like their male counterparts.

But there's so many layers that come into it that actually make it not probably just as straightforward as this.

There's no first class

There's no three-day cricket, four-day cricket, no red ball cricket or pink ball cricket being played domestically in New Zealand for women.

There's, of course, the finance side of things that come into it.

And is it the best way to be spending money?

Could that be used instead on development programmes, on A-tours?

There's so many factors that go into it.