ECB adds Rubicon to its commercial family as Kia Motors signs new deal to support women’s cricket The England and Wales Cricket Board today announced soft drinks supplier Rubicon as the latest addition to its commercial family and extended Kia Motors’ sponsorship of women’s cricket. Rubicon will become the official soft drink of the England
The 1st Central County Ground hosted 3,413 people at the Kia Super League Finals Day last Friday (1st September), an all-time high for a domestic women’s cricket match in England. Attendance at the 2017 Finals Day – the first time it has been hosted at Hove – was up by over 150% from last year.
Lancashire County Age Group girls under 17s duo Danielle Collins and Rebecca Duckworth have been selected for this year’s School Games teams entered in the national competition by the ECB. Danielle Collins plays her club cricket at Tottington St Johns CC as a left hand opening bat. She has scored over 450 runs for the
Lancashire Women have won the two domestic county women’s competitions to take the double, with victory in the NatWest Women’s County T20 earlier in the season, and now the Royal London Women’s One-Day Championship. The Red Rose Women’s 1st XI went into the final round of fixtures in the Royal London Women’s One-Day Championship Division
The second year of the Kia Super League has continued the momentum of England’s ICC Women’s World Cup win with an increase in crowd sizes. The average KSL attendance is up by a third on 2016. Over 20,000 fans have watched this year’s action – compared to 16,000 at this stage last year – with
Loughborough Lightning travelled south to The Kia Oval for their final group game of the 2017 Kia Super League, running out convincing winners over league leaders Surrey Stars. The hosts were unbeaten heading into their final league game, knowing a win would see them head into Finals as favourites, whilst Lightning required a win to
Whilst India and Pakistan celebrate 70 years of independence this year, in the UK women in cricket from both nations came together to raise awareness of gender equality through a charity cricket game against the UK Armed Forces ladies team. Under the Bowling Out Domestic Violence campaign, the game now in its second year has
Loughborough Lightning headed to Blackpool Cricket Club for their fourth game of the Kia Super League, desperately needing a win against Lancashire Thunder and they duly delivered with a clinical 50 run victory. In fact both Thunder and Lightning were eager for victory, neither side having managed a victory in the tournament so far. Lightning
Lightning edged out by Yorkshire Diamonds on a wet evening at Loughborough University. Loughborough Lightning suffered a narrow 17 run defeat at home to Yorkshire Diamonds on Friday in their third Kia Super League game of the season, as the rain quite literally rained on their parade. On a day of intermittent showers at Loughborough
Following a disappointing performance in the first game of the 2017 Kia Super League against Western Storm, Loughborough Lightning looked to bounce back against last year’s champions, Southern Vipers on Tuesday afternoon. It was Vipers who came out on top however, after setting a KSL record of 180-2, Lightning unable to chase them down. With
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