In a win for the ages, the win also finally laid to rest the debate about just how sincere the Australian sporting public is to the women's game.

The crowd set a new Australian record for a women's sporting event, narrowly missing the world record by just a few thousand spectators.

Ten years ago, women's sport could barely attract 30,000 spectators for a T20 final.

So what's the difference between then and now?

North Coast Zone female academy head coach Kate Jackson was in Melbourne for the match.

She said there were two main reasons behind the switch in public perception of the code: exposure and professionalism.

She says the best pointer to the change in the game was opener Alyssa Healy's blistering start to the contest where she registered the quickest half-century in an ICC cricket final ever - men's or women's - ODI or T20I.

And Jackson brought it all back to those two words - professionalism and exposure - as the main reason Healy achieved the feat.

"The ability for the girls to be full-time professional athletes has meant they can now do their gym programs," she said.

"They can spend more time focusing on their skills-based training as well which is now seeing players clear boundaries which is what the crowds want to see in those short-format matches.

"The more that happens, balanced with those delicate nuances of the girls game, is where the crowds will start to come into it because they're seeing those big scores."

Australia's imposing 4-184 wouldn't have looked out of place in any 20-over men's match.

"The girls just have that confidence now; being extremely professional, Australia's culture is about going out and playing your own game," Jackson said.

"Playing an attacking brand of cricket suits Midge's (Healy's) game really well so for her to be able to go out there and have the batting depth behind her to clear the boundary, that's what we need for women's cricket to continue."

The future possibilities for how far women's cricket can progress is endless and Jackson believed crowds around 90,000 would become the norm especially in showpiece fixtures.

"We'll start to see those numbers build as teams get more interested in what's going on in the game," she said.

"There is so much more exposure now and there's more opportunity for girls to play the sport that it's actually creating that hype."

The Mid-North and Coffs Coast conference administrator was also part of a female coaching workshop and planning day organised by Cricket Australia on the day of the final.

She said the growth in the female game extended to a coaching capacity.

"When I went and did my level one coaching course, just from a coaching point of view, I was the only female in the room," Jackson said.

"When I went to do my level two course there was 30 of us in the room and three of us were female and now it's starting to be half and half."

The same thing was now happening in a playing capacity.

"There is such a professional career available to anyone that's good enough to invest the time," she said.

"I never thought anything like that would happen when I was playing and I definitely didn't predict five years ago that 'wow you can actually make a decent living out of cricket'."

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