England’s Under-19 Women's Cricket Team Faces Online Harassment.

A picture of England’s Under-19 Women's cricket team was shared on Twitter by the England and Wales cricket board on Wednesday, which received a lot of unexpected and vulgar comments from random users. They got asked for their Instagram accounts and were advised to stop playing cricket and join beauty contests.

Being a sportsperson is not easy, especially when it comes to being a woman, mostly due to the lack of opportunities and the way people see them. In a recent incident, a user even had the audacity to zoom and circle around the picture of one particular player and asked for her whereabouts. The fact that all the players in the photograph were minors merely under the age of 19 shows that sexualisation has nothing to do with a woman's age.

England's Under-19 Women's Cricket team sexualised

The photograph was taken right before the team was about to depart for the inauguration ceremony of the ICC women's Under-19 cricket World Cup which will be held in South Africa. The event will begin on January 14, 2023, in which women under the age of 19 from different countries around the world will participate and represent the country. In the picture, all the players from the team can be spotted smiling before departing for the first-ever Women's Under -19 world cup which is going to be a mega event.

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Most of the parents of all the players commented on the post with heavy hearts as, due to all the harsh comments that their daughters received, one such parent commented, "As a mum of one of the girls I have had to stop myself from reading the comments!!". A lot of journalists came forward as well to show their anger and disagreement over the comments faced by the players, one such journalist tweeted, "Disgusted by some of the responses on this post. In what world is it okay to just sexualise women? In what world is it okay to SEXUALISE CHILDREN".

In the ICC Under-19 Women’s World Cup a total of 16 countries are going to compete against each other, it will be held between January 14 to  January 29. The England team will have Ellie Anderson, Hannah Baker, Josie Groves, Liberty Heap, Niamh Holland, Ryana MacDonald-Gay, Emma Marlow, Charis Pavely, Davina Perrin, Lizzie Scott, Grace Scrivens Sophia Smale, Seren Smale, Alexa Stonehouse, Maddie Ward.