Is New Zealand holding back women's Test cricket?

ABC News Australia17 October 2026, 18:39 UTCNew Zealand

New Zealand regularly faces Australia in white-ball formats but refuses to play women's Test cricket, despite being one of the first three nations to do it back in the 1930s. Here's why.

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