Just Men's World Cup! Twitter divided as Isa Guha sparks debate over name and coverage of tournement

Isa Guha took to Twitter and reuquested the journalists to refer the England team as the men's team when talking about them having never won the Cricket World Cup. Guha pointed out that England already have won Cricket World Cup four times when the women took the trophy home in 1973, 1993, 2009 and 2017.

Sorry to rant but for all the journalists out there when writing pieces, pls remember that the women have won the tournament before in England so would be awesome if you could at least refer to England as England’s men when saying they have never won a tournament before

— Isa Guha (@isaguha) July 13, 2019

If fact, New Zealand have also won the Cricket World Cup before with the women's team winning the title in 2000. This is the second time when England and New Zealand are facing each other in World Cup final. In 1993, England women had defeated New Zealand to win the title.

Many people agreed with Isa Guha's point and called for more recognisation for women.

And, of course, one of those wins was in 1993 at Lords against - New Zealand!! Good omens, all round!!

— Carole Cornthwaite (@cacorn158) July 13, 2019

A few days ago, BBC 5live led with the headline that England have not reached a semi final for 20 odd years. A simple addition of one word isn’t hard to do but either they are reluctant or ignorant. Plus it really does matter.

— Kate (@KJTweetster) July 13, 2019

Well said Isa! Anyone who was at Lord's for the final is unlikely ever to forget - what a great day that was!

— Tina Atkins (@TinaAtkins1) July 13, 2019

Well said. Getting bored of women being forgotten about in sport.

— Sam Tracy (@sammylee158) July 13, 2019

Sad isn’t it? You still have to remind them!

— cricketmaan (@cricketmaan1) July 13, 2019

However, most of the replies were in not in favour of Isa Guha's point. Many pointed out that men's game was far more advanced and popular and thus Cricket World Cup implied the Men's World Cup only.

It’s the women’s team that should require a separate qualifier. Just the nation name means and will always mean the Men’s cricket team, unless specified otherwise.

— v2.0 Tony (@rant_e_azam) July 13, 2019

The men’s game, when discussed, is the default isn’t it though - due to its popularity, history, etc. Like in football: if you say “The World Cup” you’re obviously referring to the men’s World Cup; and then “The Women’s World Cup”. It’s not perfect, but that’s the reality of it.

— Jonathan Williams (@JJWilliams123) July 13, 2019

Stop it now please. Everyone is aware of which World Cup is being spoken about. Let’s not turn it in to that kind of debate 

— Sheedy’s Two Fingers (@HarpoMarxxxx) July 13, 2019

I'm all for equality i really am but I'm sick of people now searching for tenuous examples of inequality such as this. The pieces are about the current World Cup, the fact women are not mentioned is in no way inequal or sexist as you are implying. It's getting ridiculous.

— Daniel Skyver (@danielskyver) July 13, 2019