Bulou Mataitoga is set to make her 50th Loughborough Lightning appearance under the floodlights at cinch Stadium at Franklin’s Gardens on Friday evening (kick-off: 7.45pm). The USA international retains her place on the right wing and will lead out the team to take on Trailfinders Women in the 18th and final round of the 2024/25
Loughborough Lightning have added more international quality to their squad after signing Canadian forward Courtney Holtkamp until the end of the 2024/25 Premiership Women’s Rugby season. The 25-year-old second row joins the African Violets for a third spell having made 18 appearances across the 2020/21 and 2021/22 campaigns. Holtkamp enjoyed a meteoric rise in rugby
Catherine Wells will make her Loughborough Lightning debut in this weekend’s Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby clash with Gloucester-Hartpury. Head coach Nathan Smith has selected the England Under-20s prop to start at loosehead for Saturday’s showdown with the reigning Allianz PWR champions at the Alpas Arena (kick-off: 2pm). The 21-year-old joined Lightning in December as she
Wasps had a tough start to this year’s Allianz Cup. In a game that took some time to get going ultimately Loughborough fought their way to a win despite a resolute defence from Wasps while the attack never got going It was 15 minutes in that saw Wasps strike first with a penalty from Flo
Sunrisers vs Lightning at Chelmsford (Essex) on 11 September 2022 (10h30) Both teams have insufficient points to venture beyond the group stage, so the match was a ‘dead rubber.’ Before the match, a minute’s silence was held, followed by the national anthem; and an ECB statement was read out to mourn the passing of HM
Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy on July 2 (11h30) This was reportedly an historic ‘ICC List A’ match. Never before had a cricket match been Umpired ‘on-field’ by a married couple: Jasmine Naeem and Naeem Ashraf former Pakistan International cricketers, now husband-and-wife. Umpires had plenty to do once play got underway in overcast conditions with the
Lightning v Thunder at Leicester (The Uptonsteel County Ground) on May 21 Openers Georgie Boyce (71 runs from 56 balls) and Emma Lamb (56 from 49) made 40 runs from Thunder’s power play, reaching 71 by mid-way. *At the 100 ball benchmark, Thunder were 130 without loss. *Thereafter, both openers were caught behind by Kathryn
‘SE Stars’ vs ‘Lightning’ at Guildford on 25 August (Charlotte Edwards Cup – Regional T20 – Group A) Previous match was on 26 June when SE Stars won at Nottingham by 6 wickets (with 41 balls remaining) *‘Stars’ Bryony Smith (16 runs from 12 balls) joined by Alice Capsey (38 from 28) kept the run-rate
In the battle between two outstanding left-arm spinners, Kirstie Gordon outperformed Sophie Ecclestone to help complete a resounding win for Lightning. Scores: Lightning 259-5; Thunder 125 – Lightning win by 134 runs Lightning had suffered from two drawbacks in the past: a top order that wasn’t producing the runs and a lower order that wasn’t
After a shaky start last week against Firwood Waterloo, Lightning will look to start strongly against visiting side Worcester Valkyries as they welcome them to Loughborough University this Saturday. The game kicks off at 12pm, and forms part of a double header with the Loughborough Students RFC, who play Birmingham Mosely RFC in the National
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