England Netball has announced that highly respected netball coach Jess Thirlby has agreed to take on the role of Vitality Roses Head Coach. Thirlby was selected for the role shortly after Tracey Neville stepped down from the position following Neville’s four year stint at England Netball. Thirlby‘s solid credentials stem from her sixteen year record
England Women U20s head coach Jo Yapp has named her team to play Canada in their second Tri-Nations Cup fixture at Loughborough University on Sunday [28 July]. Yapp makes a number of changes to the side who defeated the USA last weekend with Connie Powell, Florence Long, Anya Richmond and Beth Wilcock coming into the
England Women have named their squad for the Vitality Women’s IT20 series against Australia, the final part of the multi-format Women’s Ashes series. With the score at 8-2 to the visitors, England need to win all three remaining games to tie the series 8-8. Australia retained the urn with the drawn Kia Women’s Test at
Australia retained the Women’s Ashes after the Test match at Taunton ended in a draw on day four. The tourists hold an unassailable 8-2 lead over England heading into the three-match IT20 series, with England no longer able to reach the 10 points needed to regain the trophy. England passed the follow-on target in the
England U20 v USA U20 Tri-Nations – Loughborough 20 July 2019 All the great names (Dow, Perry, Beckett, Botterman, Tuima, Attwood, Galligan, Harrison) had disappeared from the Under 20 roster – upstairs, to the elite squad. And still the new-look squad put ten tries on a hard-pressed USA side. Just as though it was a cricket
Amy Jones and Natalie Sciver both hit 50s as England Women finished day three of the Kia Women’s Test 221 runs behind Australia heading. Australia added 60 to their overnight score for the loss of three wickets. Jess Jonassen was caught well at gully by Sciver off the bowling of Katherine Brunt and Sophie Molineux
Australia enjoyed the best of the first day of the Kia Women’s Test at Taunton, reaching 265-3 at the close. In a must-win game for England their bowlers plugged away with limited success, coming up against Ellyse Perry (84*) and Rachael Haynes (54*) who put on 105 for the fourth wicket. Three wickets fell in
England and South Africa both confirmed their place in the Vitality Netball World Cup semi-finals today, by extending their unbeaten runs in the competition to five games. England coach Tracey Neville chose to experiment with her line-up throughout the Roses’ clash with Trinidad and Tobago, with her much-changed team eventually running out 72-46 winners. Trinidad
England Women have named a squad of 13 for their must-win Kia Women’s Test. Heather Knight (Berkshire, cap) Tammy Beaumont (Kent) Katherine Brunt (Yorkshire) Kate Cross (Lancashire) Sophie Ecclestone (Lancashire) Georgia Elwiss (Sussex) Kirstie Gordon (Nottinghamshire) Amy Jones (Warwickshire) Laura Marsh (Kent) Nat Sciver (Surrey) Anya Shrubsole (Berkshire) Lauren Winfield (Yorkshire) Sarah Taylor (Sussex, wicketkeeper)
A day of barely rivalled sporting excitement in Britain (Wimbledon finals, the British Grand Prix, a ridiculously palpitating World Cup cricket final) concluded with this battle of the Titans far away in Southern California. New Zealand gained immediate revenge for the Black Caps’ titanic battle with England at Lord’s a few hours earlier. The game
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