Big Bash League side Melbourne Stars coach Stephen Fleming said that the Stars' men "could learn about decision-making from the women's side when the teams go on pre-season camp together for the first time," according to Larissa Nicholson of THE AGE. He said that the male and female teams "operated quite separately in the first season of the women's competition, but the club was working to change that this year." He added that Australian and Melbourne Stars captain Meg Lanning was a "gun" player. Fleming: "There are lessons there, especially when you have a world-class player like [Lanning], who is lifting that side and lifting Australian cricket." Many female players were "juggling other paid work with cricket, requiring them to prioritise and make decisions about their day." Fleming said, "A men's player can turn up a bit brain-dead and get given a sheet for the day, so you don't have to manage work, you don't have to manage family, you don't have to manage anything apart from being at training at 10. There's lessons in that as well, about prioritizing your decisions and not becoming a brain-dead athlete" (THE AGE, 11/8).
