By Iva Wharton
It is the prevailing view that women cricketers today are not treated as equals compared to their male counterparts. To begin with they earn far less than men, compete in fewer tournaments locally, regionally and internationally and to crown it all, there is less investment.
Claude Raphael, former co-ordinator of women’s cricket on the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and also representative on the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) says that women’s cricket is grossly under developed.
Precious little, Raphael says, has been
