Sarah Glenn has decided to return to her native county Derbyshire after spending four years in the embrace of Worcestershire. Cricket has remained one of the very few English sports based upon counties. Tennis and rugby used to have thriving county networks, but these days you have to search hard to find coverage of them
The two May bank holidays see the bulk of the competition completed. After Round Six Kent have consolidated their place at the head of the table, seeing off the two Rose counties away from home in the damp. Last year they swamped the opposition at Beckenham; this time round they had to work very hard
A bitterly cold Bank Holiday weekend marked the opening of the last season of Royal London One-dayers in their present form. Kent opened their account with a 49-run win over Notts at the Polo Farm Ground Canterbury. It’s vital for any team not to panic when the top batter goes relatively cheaply. Skipper Tammy Beaumont
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
LCB Women, the Red Rose County’s first and second team for Women, has named a 21 women squad for the 2017 season. First Team Captain Megan Fairclough from Egerton CC, Bolton has new recruits Evelyn Jones and New Zealand Women’s Amy Satterthwaite to offer strength and depth with the bat along with spin options from
Sussex Women have announced the signing of left-arm spinner and top order batsman Linsey Smith from Berkshire. 22-year-old Smith, who is also in the England Academy and will shortly be going on tour to Abu Dhabi with England, was one of the stand out players in the Women’s Kia Super league last year for the
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
The Lancashire Cricket Board and the LCCC Foundation are pleased to have donated old kit to disadvantaged children in Barbados. Ruairidh Barker, student from Lancaster Royal Grammar School got in touch with the LCCC Foundation to see if there was anything they could take on their cricket tour to Barbados for children in local schools
George Lavelle, LCB County Age Group Under 15 wicket keeper batsman was named the Cedric Rhodes Player of the Season for boys and Emma Lamb, LCB County Age Group Under 17 top order bat, named the Cedric Rhodes Player of the Season for girls. Both George and Emma received their awards at the annual Lancashire
Alexia Walker, Sussex Women’s most capped player ever, has announced her retirement from the game following the end of the season after playing 146 matches for the County. Alexia first began playing cricket in January 1992 at the age of 10 for her local side in Bexhill, and it was that same summer she then
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