The 30-year-old made her England debut in 2006, and has gone on to make 226 appearances, earning a reputation as one of the world’s finest players. Across that time she has scored 6,533 international runs – second on England Women’s all-time list of run-scorers. In addition, she will be remembered for her work behind the
I can’t claim to have seen all the great English wicket-keepers of the post-war period, but I did see one, Leslie Ames, who dates from before the war. Though by the time I saw him in a Kent county game in the early 1950s he no longer wore the gloves. Who have there been since?
Vitality Roses to face Jamaica, New Zealand and South Africa in a new international competition in 2020 The Vitality Roses; England’s elite netball team, will play in front of a home crowd in January 2020 for the first time since the Vitality Netball World Cup as part of a new international series. The Vitality Netball
Head coach Charlie Hayter has named his England Women’s Sevens squad for the 2019/20 season. 12 of the 15-player group featured throughout 2018/19 as the side secured Olympic qualification on behalf of Great Britain in a memorable Rugby Europe qualifier in Kazan, Russia. Abbie Brown will captain the squad for a second consecutive season while
England Netball has announced the names of 15 athletes that will be traveling to Australia and New Zealand for a behind closed doors tournament later this month. The Vitality Roses squad, which includes Vitality Netball World Cup bronze medalists Fran Williams and Natalie Panagarry, will play and train against Australia’s development team in Canberra, before
England Netball is delighted to reveal the 12 athletes selected to represent England at the Netball Europe Open championships. The highly anticipated competition will take place from 27 – 29 September at the Antrim Forum in Belfast and will see the England side face the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales on court. The
Fresh from being named in the England senior squad for a first time, Imogen Allison has become the fourth player to sign up to Team Bath Netball for the 2020 Vitality Superleague season. The tenacious wing-defence is rated as one of the most exciting prospects in the country, with her dynamic displays earning Allison a
When Mark Robinson announced his intention to stand down as England’s head coach, he caught everyone off-guard, not least the players. He was in charge for four years, which climaxed in the outstanding World Cup win at Lord’s in 2017. As a proud Yorkshire man he is bound to have taken the recent loss to
England’s women were beaten by Spain in a shootout in the bronze medal match at the EuroHockey Championships. Having taken an early lead in the match, England were begged back by the Spanish and so it proved in the shootout as well, England going 2-1 ahead only for their opponents to fight back and win
England’s women were put to the sword by the Netherlands in the semi finals of the EuroHockey Championships. The Dutch scored eight unanswered goals in a totally one-sided encounter in Antwerp. 1-0 down at the end of the first quarter, England then conceded seven in 40 minutes and had no answer to a rampant Dutch
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