Neither England’s men or women are doing well in the Ashes at present. Let’s pray for rain or a batting miracle tomorrow.

Either way I feel sure we’ll read pages and pages in our papers about the men’s game and not the women’s game tomorrow, no matter how well the women performed in the World Cup.

It’s the same with football too.

But now that Wimbledon have decided to do the decent thing for women and to give them equal earnings under the same annual billing as the men, perhaps it’s time for the sporting authorities to do the same thing for women cricketers and footballers and to share the TV coverage more equitably.

Why not start off the women’s football league alongside the men’s and give both the same exposure? And play and announce both the men and women’s cricket events and football results at the same time…

Maybe then the women’s game would get the audience it deserves and whilst the female football game is undoubtedly different from the men, I’m not so sure that women can’t take on the men in tennis and/or cricket in future.

And I have no doubt that women can and will drive as fast as men in future, much as they have done in the past.

I am reading a new book from Veloce Publishing called ‘Fast Ladies – Female racing drivers 1888-1970′ and it is fascinating to read about the daring and brave women who took part in speed trials, rallies and Grand Prix events.

Why not women drivers in Formula One today?

FOXY Steph