Katherine Brunt, England’s passionate opening bowler, never set out play to play cricket.
Not seriously at least. ‘I never saw cricket as a long-term career,’ says Brunt.
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The Independent: Natalie Sciver is going places thanks to roving lifestyle
Interviews, Print, Sport, The IndependentNatalie Sciver was just another fan when, along with two and a half million others, she tuned in to watch England beat Germany for the first time in 31 years at the Women’s football World Cup last month.
The Independent: Record-breaker England must halt to win the Ashes
Interviews, Print, Sport, The IndependentEnglish cricket is seeking solace after the debacle at Lord’s but while the men were left bruised and battered by Mitchell Johnson, for the women, who begin their Ashes series on Tuesday, the name that strikes fear into the hearts is Meg Lanning.
The Independent: Women’s Ashes – England’s cricketers are fired up for the Ashes
Features, Print, Sport, The IndependentAfter success at the rugby and football World Cups, women’s sport is riding high in England, now it is the turn of the cricketers who will fly the flag against Australia.
Sports Integrity Initiative: Gerard Elias QC – The UK needs a specific law to combat match-fixing
Match-Fixing, Sports LawGerard Elias QC’s role as Chairman of the Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) for the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is one that has seen him oversee issues that have varied from players’ spitting on the pitch through to racism allegations and corruption of the sport. Appointed as the CDC’s chairman in 1996, it’s a role he’s held for almost twenty years; even he concedes that such a term is too long. Appointed a QC in 1984, Elias is also a former Chairman of Glamorgan County Cricket Club and has chaired Disciplinary Tribunals for many other sports including the Welsh Rugby Union.
Sports Integrity Initiative: Salman Butt hopes confession will accelerate return to cricket
Match-Fixing, Sports LawThe former Pakistan cricket captain, Salman Butt, has signed a written statement specifically confessing to spot-fixing. In the statement, which was published by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Butt admits that he was ‘guilty of breaching the International Cricket Council (ICC) Anti-Corruption Code in the manner found by the Anti-Corruption Tribunal’ and admits specifically to being a ‘party to the bowling of two deliberate no balls in the Lord’s test match.’
The Independent: Anya Shrubsole’s plans in full swing for Ashes assault on Australia
Interviews, Print, Sport, The IndependentWalking into the kitchen of the Shrubsole family home on the outskirts of Bath you’re met with all the day-to-day trappings one expects of urban life. A closer look however and it dawns, this is no ordinary household. Tucked away behind the fruit bowl and perched next to the toaster a tall, gleaming, jewel-studded trophy sticks out. The engraving on the base gives the game away: 2014 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Player of the Tournament – Anya Shrubsole.
Geek & Friends Cricket: 3/5ths of a Cricketer
Podcasts, Radio, SportGeek & Friends 90 – 3/5ths of a Cricketer
21st May 2015
Peter is joined by Izzy Westbury to discuss the women’s game and make oblique references to antebellum era America.
Isabelle Westbury 