Loughborough Lightning Cricket played in front of a home crowd for the first time in almost year, putting on an entertaining display for the 600 strong crowd who’d come out to support to get the better of Yorkshire Diamonds. This result makes it three wins from four for Rob Taylor’s side, putting them in a
Vipers v Lightning – Ageas Bowl 25 July 2018 Snakes bitten ‘This is the strongest batting line-up in the league’ (Wyatt, Bates, Beaumont, du Preez) said the pundits of the Vipers; so of course they flopped – Wyatt, Bates and du Preez totalled 20 between them. This accepted wisdom ignored the facts that Wyatt has had
After the success of last year’s inaugural Rainbow Laces campaign ECB and the cricket family will once again lace up this weekend to celebrate lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) players and fans at every level of cricket. For the second year in succession ECB has joined forces with LGBT equality charity Stonewall to bring
Here are the Kia Super League 2018 Fixtures and Results Sunday 22 July 2018 Surrey Stars v Southern Vipers – Vipers win by. 7 wickets Lancashire Thunder v Loughborough Lightning – Lightning win by 6 wickets Western Storm v Yorkshire Diamonds – Storm win by 7 wickets Wednesday 25th July 2018 Southern Vipers v Loughborough
Here is a round up of the first Round of the Kia Super League 2018: Surrey Stars v Southern Vipers Amid a modest blare of trumpets the third and potentially last season on the Kia got under way at Southport, Taunton and Guildford. Attempts had been made to even up the playing strength of the
It has been a breathless summer for England’s women cricketers. Almost unbroken sunshine is fine for sprawling spectators; not so much fun for labouring fielders and bowlers. A carefully choreographed campaign involved two visiting nations, South Africa and New Zealand. At stake were points in the new World Series, world rankings and team and personal
England were two up with one to play as they came to Grace Road for the final act of a demanding international season. Heather Knight won the toss yet again and chose to bat. With the game not scheduled to end till about 9.30 pm, this seemed the wise choice. Lauren Winfield and Kate Cross
A brilliant hundred from New Zealand’s Sophie Devine took the White Ferns to a four-wicket win in the final Royal London ODI at Leicester. Set 220 to win after England collapsed from 156/2 to 219 all out, Devine marshaled her side’s chase perfectly to take the visitors to victory and leave the series at 2-1
Western Storm can today exclusively reveal the return of three members of the squad who they hope will lead them to KIA Super League glory once again this season. The reigning champions have once again secured the services of Claire Nicholas, Lauren Parfitt and Danielle Gibson, all of whom play their cricket for Wales in
Lancashire Thunder is delighted to announce the signing of Nicole Bolton as an overseas player for this year’s Kia Super League (KSL), linking up with former Australia teammate and new Head Coach, Alex Blackwell. Perth-born Bolton has represented Australia 48 times across all three formats and was part of the Perth Scorchers side that finished
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