Somerset players recently spent the afternoon at Selworthy School in Taunton. Selworthy School is a co-educational special school for children and young people with learning disabilities aged 4 to 19 and Adam Hose, Alex Barrow, Michael Leask and Paul van Meekeren visited the school to deliver an afternoon cricket session for the sixth form students.
The ECB has today announced a 15-strong England women’s touring party for the five-match One-Day International (ODI) series against the West Indies in Jamaica next month. The squad includes two uncapped players at this level: 17-year-old left-arm spinner, Sophie Ecclestone and right-arm seam bowler, Beth Langston. Langston had previously been ruled-out of taking part in
Congratulations go to the LCB Women’s First Team as they gain promotion to the Royal London Women’s One-Day Cup as champions of Division 2. After being relegated in 2015 back to Division 2, there was only one thing on the agenda for 2016 and that was to get back into Division 1. Whilst in Division
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has confirmed that England women will complete their ICC Women’s Championship campaign with a three-match One-Day International series against Sri Lanka in November. All three ODI fixtures will be played at the R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium (RPICS) in Colombo, with the action getting underway on Saturday 12th
England women’s performance squad member Beth Langston has undergone surgery to her left thumb after breaking it during an inter-squad training match last week. England’s medical staff anticipate that her rehabilitation programme will now take approximately six weeks, ruling the right-arm seam bowler out of contention for selection for England women’s tour to the West
Charlotte Edwards’ Southern Vipers win the first ever Super League with a seven-wicket win over Western Storm. Western Storm 140-5 (20 overs): Priest 57, Taylor 35; Brindle 2-15 Southern Vipers 143-3 (18.5 overs): Bates 52, Edwards 24; Dibble 1-27 Southern Vipers won by seven wickets The first ever Kia Super League came to a very
Charlotte Edwards and her Southern Vipers are one win away from being crowned the first champions of the Kia Super League. The Vipers beat Loughborough Lightning by 59 runs in front of another four-figure crowd at the Ageas Bowl today to secure top spot in the final table, fired by a fine all-round performance by
England seamer Katherine Brunt took a hat-trick as the Yorkshire Diamonds brushed Lancashire Thunder aside to claim their first Kia Super League win. Brunt mopped up the Thunder tail as they were 71 all out in 15 overs following Alex Blackwell’s 59 which underpinned the Diamonds 166 for six at Emirates Old Trafford. Unfortunately, neither
Alex Hartley and Tammy Beaumont led Surrey Stars to a comfortable 7-wicket bonus point victory at Guildford against an out-of-sorts Lancashire Thunder in the Kia Super League. England left-arm spinner Hartley picked up figures of 3 for 11 off her allocated four overs, whilst Beaumont batted through the innings to finish on 45 not out,
An unlikely eighth wicket partnership of 69 between Thea Brookes and Paige Scholfield saw Loughborough Lightning come close to pulling off an amazing comeback before Lancashire Thunder completed their first win in the new Kia Super League. Lightning had looked dead and buried when they collapsed to 88-7 in the 13th over, chasing a formidable
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