Frankie Mackay

She hits it.

To me, that's what feels sad, is you've got these brilliant female players, these brilliant cricketers in their own right, and there's just a part of the game they've never had the option to access.

And it's sad, and it also perhaps takes away from how they are discussed around being some of the best ever.

If they haven't had the opportunity to play the most challenging format, to test themselves in that format,

Where does that actually stack them up in the lines of, I guess, New Zealand's greatest or the greatest female cricketers ever?

So yeah, it's sad.

And it's something, look, it's something as female players we sit around and talk about all the time.

It's one of those things that if the game's a little bit slow on the sideline or there's rain delays, so often you get together and you're nutting out.

Who would make the test team?

And you're sitting around trying to pick out, okay, who's the opener with the best defensive technique?

Who would take the new ball?

Who's the spinner that's

got the ability to bowl, you know, 30, 40 overs per innings, who would be fielding under the lid?

So the discussions are there, the desire to want to do it with a lot of players is there.

And look, I was absolutely no different.

You know, I'm such a lover of the game and have watched probably too much cricket, to be fair.

It's one of those things that you just think, oh, what would that be like?

What would it feel like to be out in the field for days on end?

What would it feel like to be in those situations and to be able to really test yourself, test yourself against the best in the world in the toughest format?

I guess I'm lucky having a little bit of a broadcasting view to things as well.