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TRANSFORM WOMEN’S AND GIRLS’ CRICKET
TRANSFORM WOMEN’S
AND GIRLS’ CRICKET
We will drive cricket’s progress to becoming
a truly gender-neutral sport
Women and girls represent the biggest growth opportunity for cricket. Our vision is to make cricket a game that
is truly gender-neutral, with women and girls being properly represented across the whole game. This means
investing in the development of every level of the game – from girls experiencing cricket for the first time to
heroes at the pinnacle of the elite game, alongside supporting female coaches, officials and administrators.
We are fully committed to this long-term vision, and this strategy represents the next steps to achieving it.
We will invest at least £20m into transforming women’s and girls’ cricket by the end of 2021, with an ambition
to invest £50m during this strategic period. A detailed action plan for transforming women’s
and girls’ cricket will be launched in 2019.
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There has never been a
more exciting time for a
young girl to come into
cricket. England’s win in
the 2017 ICC Women’s
World Cup final created
a huge surge of interest
and this new strategy
and investment will
accelerate that further.
a sell-out ICC Women’s World
Cup final at Lord’s in July 2017
of women
say there is no cricket
available for them
We will:
Lisa Pagett
Women & Girls Development Officer,
Gloucestershire Cricket Board
Thanks to the immense hard work and dedication over the last decade by Lisa Pagett
of Gloucestershire Cricket Board, the south west of England has become one of the
hotbeds of women’s and girls’ cricket, with growth in all areas of the game. As well as
being the General Manager of Western Storm – who won the Kia Super League in 2017
– Lisa is a Level Four coach and her involvement with Gloucestershire extends from
the senior county team through to the grassroots.
I N S P I R I N G G E N E R AT I O N S
fans attended
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17 %
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of cricket’s adult
recreational playing
base is female
female professional
players
(vs 120 in Australia)
This means:
Grow the base through participation and
facilities investment Focusing investment on improving club facilities
and creating welcoming environments in clubs will
encourage recreational play amongst women and girls
Launch centres of excellence and a new elite
domestic structure There will be a greater focus on developing talented
female cricketers within centres of excellence across
the country, playing both T20 and 50-over formats
Invest in girls’ county age group cricket More talented girls will have the opportunity
to develop into elite cricketers
Deliver a girls’ secondary school programme Girls in secondary school will be given more
opportunity to play cricket in school beyond
primary age
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