England women scrap West Indies Test to prioritise Ashes preparation
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 3 newsrooms by 11:28am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 58% of the past week’s 3841 stories, and number 181 of 1096 in Sport.Related
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- ScoopSky Sports had it 1 hr before anyone else.
England have scrapped a women's Test match in West Indies this spring with the majority of their red-ball preparations ahead of the 2027 Ashes to take place at home.
ESPNcricinfo didn’t include a summary, so this is Sky Sports’s, from its report on the same story.2
The story so far
3 newsrooms- Reports
- 3
- Newsrooms and sources
- 3
- Last 3 hours
- 1
First with it: Sky Sports, 1 hr 6 min before anyone else.
Reported by 3 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 3
- Over
- 2.5 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 2.5 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 12:40am AEDT | Sky Sports | 1 |
| 1:46am AEDT | BBC Sport | 2 |
| 3:12am AEDT | ESPNcricinfo | 3 |
Bigger than 95% of Sport stories this week. Reached three newsrooms in 2.5 hr; a typical Sport story that gets there takes 7.2 hr.
Where it’s heading
Stories in this position rarely added another newsroom from here.



