A relationship which was at odds long before women were given the vote

Cricket and family life have never been easy bedfellows. A relationship which was at odds long before women were given the vote appears to have reached a crisis of late ... The leading players are finding that cricket is making greater demands on them than ever before - and so are their wives.

D. Pringle, 'Don't marry a cricketer', T. de Lisle (ed.), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (2003), 37