Lancashire Thunder’s Laura MacLeod and Lancashire Lightning all-rounder Liam Livingstone visited Bowdon Cricket Club last Thursday 19 May to launch the Thunder and Lightning Roadshow. The Thunder and Lightning Roadshow will visit over 50 local schools and junior cricket clubs in the region to encourage children and their families to visit Emirates Old Trafford for
The Sussex Cricket Foundation have teamed up with the Arundel Castle Cricket Foundation to organise a County ‘Deaf Cricket Day’ for children across Sussex, and neighbouring counties. This event follows on from last week’s annual Sussex Cricket Foundation Disability day, supported by Ortus Business Finance, which was attended by over 250 young people and adults
Watch out for the name Anoushka Williamson because I can guarantee it is one you will be hearing a lot in the future. Anoushka, a pupil at Diss High School, started playing cricket with her brother as a youngster and at 9 years of age was picked to play for Diss Cricket Club under 11
England women’s captain, Charlotte Edwards, has announced her retirement from international cricket with immediate effect. The 36-year-old batsman made her international debut as a 16-year-old in 1996, and during a 20-year career with England has made more international appearances than any other female cricketer in the history of the game, amassing 23 Test Match caps,
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has confirmed that England women will travel to the West Indies in October 2016 to play a five-match One-Day International (ODI) series. All five fixtures will be played in Jamaica during a two-week window, starting on Saturday 8th and Monday 10th October with the first two ODIs at
LCB Women is the county’s top tier women’s first team that compete in the Royal London Women’s One Day Championship (Division 2) and NatWest Women’s County T20 (Division 1). (To avoid any confusion it’s not the same as the Lancashire Thunder team which will compete in a new competition the Kia Super League designed to
On the day that full Kia Super League squads are announced, Loughborough Lightning have confirmed that Georgia Elwiss will captain the side in the inaugural edition of the event. With ECB contracted players and international stars confirmed over the last two weeks, Head Coach Sall Briggs has confirmed that Elwiss will lead the squad on
The ECB have now announced the final squads for the Kia Super League and it is exciting to see that several England cricketing superstars, former World Cup and Women’s Ashes winners will line-up alongside future stars in the summer. It can’t have been easy to pick the final 90 from a pool of 200 potential players
Eighteen of the best international women’s cricketers from across the world will play in the Kia Super League this summer, after the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today announced which overseas players will appear in the inaugural edition of the competition. Each of the six Kia Super League teams will field three overseas players
Loughborough Lightning has announced that Ellyse Perry (pictured above), Sophie Devine and Dane van Nierkerk will play for the team in 2016. Australian Ellyse Perry and South African Dane van Nierkerk are currently ranked one and two respectively in the ICC T20 all-rounder player rankings, whilst New Zealand’s Sophie Devine had an equally strong ICC Women’s
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