Women and Girls' Cricket: How We Can Grow the Game Together

For many decades women and girls cricket has been under-represented under-financed undervalued and lacking in true organisation. Despite this many thousands of female players over the years have fought against the barriers developed their skills and fallen in love with this incredible sport. Recent years have seen an explosion of female participation broadcast coverage new teams new clubs new competitions and an undeniable sense that women and girls cricket is establishing itself as the most significant growth area of the game. Weve seen full houses at Lords and the MCG weve seen the success of the Hundred the Womens Big Bash the prospect of a Womens IPL and most importantly thousands of new players across the world benefitting from everything cricket has to offer. What is needed now is to build on these successes to provide resources and information for clubs schools and coaches to start to grow and to coach their own programmes. This book is the answer. Lydia Greenway has written a full guide on coaching administration formats techniques EDI and more. Packed with practical advice the book has original contributions from some of the most influential players administrators coaches and broadcasters in the world including: Charlotte Edwards Alyssa Healy Heather Knight Kate Cross Ebony Rainford-Brent Henry Moeran Nat Sciver Isa Guha Lisa Sthalekar Mel Jones Lisa Keightley Alex Hartley Clare Connor Ali Mitchell Charles Dagnall Katherine Brunt Amy Jones and more.