So proud of DD

[IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads]

DD(14) played her first U15s cricket match yesterdays. There is a strong women’s presence at her tiny club, and the team had 4 girls. Brilliant. She was batting 10th, and was really chuffed that they were still for her to have a bat.

As she went up to bat, the opposition’s wicket keeper said “Are you going to miss the ball, are you going to get caught out???”. He’d been deliberately riling people all match.

She looked at him and said “At least I’m not wicket keeping cos I can’t catch. You’ve dropped every ball”. Then she scored a 6. Her team didn’t win, but she was buzzing.

So proud of her for having the right out form at the right time and putting the toxic male in his place.

Good for her
this kind of behaviour needs calling out every single time!
I encourage my DDs to do the same!

Not very sporting behaviour from a man old enough to know better.

DH commented that the wicket keeper lad would be googling “incel” within 5 years. He’s probably right.

Unfortunately this behaviour, called sledging, is perfectly normal in cricket. Unpleasant but common. Nicer players might do it more jovially. So it may not have been misogynistic it may just have been horrid.

She sounds awesome but yes, that doesn’t necessarily come from misogyny it’s very normal unfortunately for cricket players to wind each other up like that it happens in my son’s games all the time

This. I’ve heard worse said by girls, to other girls.

OP you said yourself he was riling all the players but your daughters team had four girls. How is this misogynistic? Every dickhead isn’t misogynistic - in fact I would say he was equal in his unsporting like behaviour.