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Ebony Rainford-Brent Head of Women's Cricket Surrey CCC Ebony-Jewel Cora-Lee Camellia Rosamond Rainford-Brent is a former English cricketer, who was the first black woman to play for the England team and also captained the Surrey Women’s team. Since retiring from cricket, Ebony has gone on to become the first Director of Women’s Cricket at Surrey County Cricket Club; pundit for the BBC flagship radio programme Test Match Special (she is one of the first female expert summarisers to commentate on men’s international cricket matches); and a Speaker on Peak Performance. Ebony was a member of the England Team that won the 9th ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup in Sydney 2009. In the three months following their World Cup win, the team went on to win: the ICC Women’s World Twenty20, the Natwest One Day series and retained the Ashes. Harriet Drudge Social Media Executive FourFourTwo magazine Harriet Drudge is Social Media Executive at one of the world’s most respected football magazines, FourFourTwo. A Business Management graduate from the University of Surrey in 2014, Harriet has already worked for two of the country’s leading sports charities (the Football Foundation and Women in Sport) as well as the BBC as a trainee sports broadcaster. Placing equal significance on experience and education, during her time at university Harriet secured a number of work experience placements. These included: the Daily Mirror, The Non-League Paper and a local sports desk. She also volunteered for an all-female fronted football podcast - The Offside Rule (We Get It!) - as their Social Media Manager.