Laura Wolvaardt, captain of the Proteas Women’s cricket team, has capped off an extraordinary 2024 season, earning nominations in three categories for the ICC Awards: Women’s Player of the Year, ODI Player of the Year, and T20I Player of the Year. These accolades underscore her consistent brilliance and confirm her status as one of the
Shafali Verma has hailed the ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup as the perfect breeding ground for the next generation of stars. The superstar batter Verma captained India to victory in the inaugural staging of the tournament in South Africa in January 2023. Verma led from the front, scoring 172 runs across the competition and
The start of 2025 sees the ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup take place in Malaysia, with 16 teams set to battle it out to become champions. The second edition of the tournament gets underway on 18 January, with the final taking place on 2 February, but the journey has been going on for far
Harlequins Head Coach Ross Chisholm names his squad for this Saturday’s trip to Trailfinders Sports Ground, as Quins go in search of their ninth consecutive victory in the PWR. The front-row remains unchanged from Big Game with Lizzie Hanlon at tighthead, Connie Powell at hooker and Silvia Turani at loosehead. Wallaroo Kaitlan Leaney comes back
The inaugural ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup was a long time in the making, but when it finally took place in 2023, it was a roaring success. Initially scheduled to be played in January 2021 in Bangladesh, the Covid-19 pandemic saw the tournament pushed back two years while also shifting venues to South Africa.
Excitement on the rise as the ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup 2025 draws near The ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup returns for its second edition in January 2025 with the best young talent in the women’s game in action. Like the first edition which was held in South Africa in 2023, 16 teams
Harlequins have announced that the Club’s Women’s team have broken the World Record for attendance at a Women’s club rugby match for a fourth consecutive year at Big Game, as a crowd of 18,055 were treated to a 42-17 Quins victory at Allianz Stadium. Using high resolution 360 imagery from the event and specialist software
Loughborough Lightning have added more international quality to their squad after signing Canadian forward Courtney Holtkamp until the end of the 2024/25 Premiership Women’s Rugby season. The 25-year-old second row joins the African Violets for a third spell having made 18 appearances across the 2020/21 and 2021/22 campaigns. Holtkamp enjoyed a meteoric rise in rugby
The Women’s Professional Leagues can now confirm details for the four quarter final ties of the 2024/25 Subway Women’s League Cup. All four fixtures will take place on Wednesday 22 January 2025 and will be broadcast live on the Barclays WSL YouTube channel, with venues and kick-off times as follows: Chelsea v Durham – Kingsmeadow,
The Women’s Professional Game is pleased to confirm that Sky Sports and the BBC have made their broadcast selections for round thirteen of the 2024/25 Barclays WSL season. As February gets underway, a hat-trick of televised fixtures will be available on Sunday 2nd, starting with Manchester City against Arsenal at the Joie Stadium live on
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