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BBC News
08-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Filer determined to show women can bowl at 80mph
England's Lauren Filer says she wants to break the 80mph barrier to prove women can bowl with such bowled three of the fastest 10 recorded overs by a woman in Friday's five-run T20 win over India, including claiming the wicket of star opener Smriti Mandhana."It's not necessarily a personal milestone for myself, but actually proving women can get to that milestone, and hopefully others can follow as well," said Filer."I don't want it just to be one or two people - we want loads of women to be able to be bowling at that speed."The 80mph feat has never been officially recorded in a women's international match and Filer says the prospect of inspiring a new generation of fast bowlers acts as motivation."I think after Friday, people are probably talking about it more than they were and hopefully if I can hit it [80mph], then it encourages other people to try and aim for that and actually make the game even more exciting than it already is," Filer, 24, said."Obviously the women's game has gone so prolific over the last few years, and I know that when I come off the pitch, a lot of people say how excited they are to watch the bowling." Beyond the excitement around pace, Friday's win having lost nine wickets for just 31 runs is something that Filer says breeds confidence for a side often criticised for their ability to handle pressure."Even as players we felt there was a shift in mentality," Filer said."The mentality we had moving forward and into that game, when good and bad things happened, we stayed level. And I think that's where we want to be in these pressure situations and show we can do it against the best in the world."With India leading the five-match T20 series 2-1, England need a win at Old Trafford on Wednesday to keep the T20 contest alive, before three one day internationals wrap up India's is part of the ODI squad which will be looking for fine-tuning ahead of a busy autumn including the Women's World Cup in India."We can't wait to see how we go against India. We obviously played very well against West Indies, I think we want to take that into India and hopefully we can get a few wins before the World Cup," added Filer.
BBC News
12-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
McCaughan hits first T20 Blast ton as Hawks beat Essex
Ella McCaughan hit the first women's T20 Blast century to inspire Hampshire Hawks to a thumping win over Essex at a sun-drenched in front of watching England coach Charlotte Edwards, the 22-year-old opener cracked 16 boundaries and shared a competition best stand of 173 with Australian Charli Knott before departing for 106 from 60 balls as the Hawks posted right-hander has now scored 327 runs across five knocks in this season's competition, averaging more than made a solid start to their reply but Hawks skipper Georgia Adams posted figures of 4-26 as her side picked up a bonus point for a 42-run win, restricting their hosts to 153-8 and closing the gap on the top three in the standings. Essex won the toss and elected to bowl first but McCaughan was soon put down on four behind the stumps by Lauren Winfield-Hill after a top-edge, but the breakthrough arrived early as Maia Bouchier got a leading edge to Essex skipper Grace Scrivens in the second over, chipping a catch to Maddie Penna to depart for four from five joined McCaughan and also received another life on nine, with Winfield-Hill missing a stumping, and the Australian made the hosts pay, bringing up her half-century from 39 balls with her seventh four, off Sophia Smale, though she might have been caught just inside the deep square rope by Cordelia raced to her fourth half-century in five innings from just 34 balls, McCaughan kept the pedal down and picked up a single to move to 90 off Esmae MacGregor to retain strike for the penultimate over.A reverse sweep for four off Smale took McCaughan past Bouchier's 92 in the 25-run win against Essex at Southampton on 30 May - the previous highest score in this season's brought up three figures with a single from the 57th delivery she had faced but holed-out to Smale at long-on off Scrivens in the final over to end the 173-run stand with Kemp hit one of her two balls to the rope to end unbeaten on five while Knott finished 72 not out from 55 deliveries with seven fours, having previously scored just 37 combined across her first three T20 appearances for the hosts were 46-0 at the end of the six-over powerplay in reply, with Scrivens finding the boundary four times and Winfield-Hill doing so twice, but Winfield-Hill drove straight to Knott at cover to depart for 18 in the seventh over off Daisy Gibb, bringing Lissy Macleod to the began positively but with the hosts falling behind the required rate, Scrivens miscued Mary Taylor to opposite number Adams at extra cover to depart for 29 from 28 balls to leave the hosts 66-2 at the end of the ninth took a fine catch inside the rope at long-on to see the end of Griffith and leave Essex 82-3 midway through the 12th was fortunate to pin Australian Penna in front for one in the next over to pick up her second scalp before Macleod was run out by a direct hit from Freya Davies to leave her side 90-5, ending a bright knock of 30 from 18 balls, with six hosts reached three figures in the 14th over and Jo Gardner and Smale set about hauling their side to the 156-run mark to deny the visitors a bonus-point win in a tight fight for the top three spots in the added 42 in 25 balls before Smale was lbw for 24 from 16 deliveries trying to sweep Adams at the start of the 18th over and Gardner fell to a diving catch at long-off from Kemp for 18 to give Adams a second wicket in the skipper had 11 runs to play with in the final over in order to secure the bonus point, and tempted Eva Gray (6) into skying to extra cover as she finished with figures of 4-26 and restricted the hosts to 153-8 to leapfrog them into fourth in the table, three points behind the Bears, having played a game fewer.
BBC News
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Harris posts third fastest fifty as Bears and Blaze both win
Big-hitting Australian overseas signing Laura Harris gave an instant return on her Warwickshire Bears debut, smashing her way into the record books in a comfortable victory against six days after landing in the UK to take part in the T20 Blast campaign, and on her first start, Harris posted the joint-third fastest half century in women's T20 history as she raced to the milestone in 17 was a barnstorming performance bettered only by Marie Kelly who reached 50 in 15 balls for Warwickshire against Gloucestershire in 2022, and Tess Flintoff whose 16-ball 50 for Melbourne Stars against Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash came in the same 53 came in 17 balls with three sixes and eight fours to put her equal third with Lizelle Lee (Surrey Stars against Lancashire Thunder in 2019).Fellow Bear Davina Perrin contributed a 61-ball 87 as they posted 193-6 at Edgbaston, a target defended comfortably by captain Georgia Davis and her team as they won by 42 were off the mark with a win after sharing a tie with The Blaze in their opening Blast fixture on Friday the Nottinghamshire outfit also got their campaign up and running with a seven-wicket victory against Lancashire Thunder at Old Trafford in the day's other Blast Mack helped Thunder to 169-4 in their 20 overs with a 37-ball 59. But Blaze were always in control of the chase thanks to 53 in 43 balls from opener Georgia Elwiss and more runs from Kathryn Bryce, who followed up her opening day 60 with a 29-ball was secured with five balls to spare and saw the Blaze go second in the table behind Warwickshire Bears.
BBC News
30-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Jersey 'will learn' from World Cup qualifying losses
Jersey head coach Darren Thomas said his side's young players will learn from their failure to reach the next stage of qualifying for the T20 World island's women - who were the second-highest ranked side in the six-team event in Rome - finished third after three defeats from their five meant they were unable to win promotion from European Division Two of the World Cup qualifiers for the second successive campaign. Jersey lost their opening two matches against Italy and Germany - who went on to qualify - before being defeated by Sweden in their final game on Thursday. In particular, Jersey's top order batters struggled at times, but Thomas said the exposure they got over the week will be beneficial for their careers."We can't forget these girls are young. They are young in cricketing experience and they're young in age as well," he told BBC Sport. "They've had experience of Jersey cricket for a little while, but ultimately in cricketing terms they're not particularly experienced, so putting on a lot of ownership on their wickets, they've got to manage a lot of pressure."They either manage it freely or they struggle sometimes to soak it up, and on a couple of occasions in this tournament they struggled to soak it up, but on a couple of occasions they played freely and brilliantly."He added: "You're talking about two 19-year-olds, one 18-year-old, and a 20-year-old in the top four."Every cricketing experience for these girls is essentially going to benefit them in the years to come."I still think you're going to see their best cricket in maybe two to three years' time where they're more mature in their ways, they're more educated in the game, and they're making more calculated decisions in the middle, because they've certainly got the appetite to play the game, that's for sure."
Times
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Times
England to face minimum fitness standards in Charlotte Edwards overhaul
Charlotte Edwards, England Women's new head coach, has warned her players that she will introduce minimum fitness standards over the next 12 months. Speaking on the eve of England's first match under their new leadership team of Edwards and her captain, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Edwards set out how she had begun to address some of the issues that led to England crashing out of last year's T20 World Cup at the group stage and then losing the Ashes 16-0. That whitewash led to both the head coach, Jon Lewis, and the captain, Heather Knight, being sacked. England's lack of fitness and athleticism came under fire in both, and as well as appointing a new coaching team and a new national selector, it has been the
