the article is quite literally referring to transgender athletes who have gone through male puberty who want to partake in women’s cricket.
so yes, we do have to acknowledge male bowlers.
like it’s fine to have an opinion about transgender athletes at the intersections of professional sport and equality, but it’s another to apply your opinion to a sport which i’m assuming you know little about.
my question to you is have you ever been hit with a cricket ball in the face, body or groin? because i can sure as shit tell you there’s a big difference between 120km/h and 150km/h.
it’s slowly becoming that, yeah.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that not many users on Lemmy follow Cricket or understand it fully. My comment isn’t going to cover if the decision by the ICC is correct (or otherwise) but to provide a little insight into the men and women’s games
Speed / pace is a noticeable difference between the sexes. I don’t believe there are any current female players that consistently bowl pace over 120km/h. In contrast, male pace bowlers generally try to meet a consistent speed of 135km/h for the same role. The upper bounds for men is roughly 160km/h and maybe only one or two pro players globally can do this.
There are enough men’s bowlers who can bowl at 150km/h. At this speed an average batter would find it difficult to see the ball. Arguably batters in baseball receive faster pitches but at 150km/h+ including the ball bouncing makes it incredibly difficult to face.
The batting is also different but it might be harder to explain to a non-cricketing audience why this is.
referring to this: https://luckyironlife.com/pages/lucky-iron-story
iOS doesn’t give many options to remove ads from YouTube videos. You can’t really circumvent the native YT app (at least in my experience). What’s worked for me for the past few years is:
- watching Youtube in Safari
- purchasing the Wipr and Vinegar extensions from the App store
I have not seen a single ad on iOS on YouTube this way. I’m pretty sure Vinegar is doing the heavy lifting specifically on YouTube but Wipr picks up the slack on every other website.
same here. nuked my lastpass account and switched everything over to bitwarden. their paid offering was worse from the competition and now i’m very glad i moved from them
pretty sure brazilians brush 3 times a day.
i just brush twice a day and floss + mouthwash at night on top.
the comment isn’t literal. it was an off handed way of saying that it is beneficial to try and improve oneself to get the most out of life.
i perhaps shouldn’t have qualified his profession because this was a conversation over beers, not his place of work.
it depends on what you consider self-improvement to be
one of my psychologist friends said a long time ago “if you don’t keep improving yourself, then what’s the point in living”.
you’re clearly already taking steps on self-improvement and personal introspection, which is probably one of the hardest things a human can do.
honestly you’re already kicking goals if you try and be a better person each day. No one can ask more of you.
i think it might equally show how challenging it is to design an app that provides the user with an optimal experience.
if you want some nostalgia there are gta vice city’s radio channels on yt