On the first day of the women’s Ashes Test, 11,643 were in the stands at the MCG, with the match on track to surpass the aggregate record for a women’s Test – 23,207 set at Trent Bridge in 2023. But what happened to the other 70-odd thousand who lined the rows in 2020?

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England's cricketers have been demolished in the Women's Ashes, but their management insist they are close. Change is needed at the top when reality is denied.