COUNTY CUP: Northamptonshire v Worcestershire – An Eras Tour

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Our first experience of the new Women’s County Cup takes place on a blustery, bright day in Northampton and concludes with something of an upset, as hosts Northamptonshire beat Worcestershire by 5 wickets.

We have an inauspicious start to the day when we arrive at the Northamptonshire County Ground 2 hours before play, to find the gates locked and the fixture board outside the ground merrily suggesting that this match was merely a figment of our imagination.

Northants Fixtures

It turns out that we’re at the wrong gate. Once we find the right entrance, things improve: we are able to easily park at the ground, find the press box open, listen to the PA warming-up, and go to watch Chloe Hill batting ferociously in the nets. The only other person inside Wantage Road at this point is a particularly loyal Northants member in a tartan cap, tucked away at the top of the Turner Stand eating his sandwiches.

This is cricket’s first all-inclusive, all-levels knockout competition, involving 37 teams from across all 3 of the new “tiers” – a brave new world for player, spectator and journalist alike. Syd and I have perhaps got a bit complacent of late, having got used to watching players who we know well, with a live scorecard which always has the correct information, and a stream which at the very least allows you to watch all the wickets back.

But this? This is right back to the Golden Days of the Women’s County Championship, of scrambling for binoculars to see who just fielded the ball, of turning to each other to ask: “I missed that – did you see it?”

I also do something I haven’t done in years: count the number of spectators. I reckon 130-odd – presumably, that’s what happens if no one knows that a match is actually happening.

Worcestershire certainly win the “most confusing team for scorers” award, with 2 Davies’s (Gwen and Poppy) and 1 Davis (Ruby), as well as a Beech (Sophie) and a Beach (Jess). We enjoy a delightful, unofficial running commentary from two of the Northants old-handers (“Clare Boycott?” “No relation”, etc, etc), as Worcestershire unhelpfully collapse to 11 for 3 within the opening 3 overs. This is the team who made the early running in Tier 2 by beating Yorkshire on the opening weekend of the season, so it’s something of a surprise to see them struggling.

Northamptonshire v Worcestershire

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Seamer Bethan Robinson is zippy and accurate, clean bowling Bryony Gillgrass second ball before returning at the death to do the same thing to Phoebe Brett with a perfect yorker. There’s a smart piece of fielding from Abby Butcher on the deep backward square leg boundary, which not only saves four but results in the run-out of Poppy Davies, before off-spinner Lenny Sims tempts a leading edge from Hill up to mid-off and the Worcestershire batting effort gradually fizzles out.

Northants are left chasing just 97; and the county’s proactive approach to recruitment over the winter ultimately pays off, as former Hertfordshire duo Gemma Marriott (24) and Amelia Kemp (23) lay the foundations with some well-placed boundaries for an easy win.

Afterwards, I go pitch side and manage to speak to the winning skipper, Marriott, who is delighted with both the result and the entire concept of the County Cup.

“It’s a great idea,” Marriott says. “It gives exposure to so many more teams to play against different levels. We know next week we’ve got Shropshire, so it’ll be interesting to see what a Tier 3 team is like now, and then if we win that, we know we’re going to get a Tier 1 team to play against which, if we get there, is going to be a great experience.”

She admits, though, that it is a little strange to not actually know where they will be playing in just 5 days time. “The Steelbacks will play Shropshire in the next round. Please check the website for details of the fixture,” says the ground announcer, helpfully, as we depart.

Welcome to the era of the Women’s County Cup, where uncertainty and opportunity sit hand in hand.

ONE-DAY CUP: The Blaze v Hampshire – Tammy Whammy Sinks Hammy

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The Blaze ended Hampshire’s unbeaten season on a chilly day in Nottingham, thanks to a century from stand-in captain Tammy Beaumont.

Blaze v Hampshire at Trent Bridge

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Invited to bowl after Hampshire won the toss, The Blaze opened with two maidens, bowled by Charley Phillips and Grace Ballinger – Ella McCaughan playing and missing several times in the first over, as Phillips ploughed a furrow outside off stump; whist Maia Bouchier was kept pinned-back in her crease by Ballinger bowling wicket-to-wicket.

But McCaughan, having started the day 133 not out following her midweek century against Lancashire, was soon piercing the ring with pinpoint accuracy to find runs on a spacious outfield at Trent Bridge.

Ballinger in particular bowled well, but a rare loose delivery brought the first wicket in the 10th over – Bouchier latching on to an inviting half-tracker well outside off and inside-edging it onto her stumps, as Hampshire finished the powerplay at 41-1.

McCaughan was dropped at cover on 31 off Sarah Glenn, but Glenn did pick up Charli Knott shortly after – bowled trying to cut the England leg-spinner off the back foot – a dismissal which suggested the Australian had not done her homework on Glenn. Glenn then added the wicket of Georgia Adams – the veteran Hampshire captain pinned plumb in front LBW for 13.

The drop aside McCaughan looked largely untroubled, passing 50 for the third consecutive outing in the 25th over. The same cannot be said of Rhianna Southby however – bowled by Sarah Glenn in a copycat of Knott’s dismissal, trying to cut Glenn off the back foot on the stroke of drinks, leaving the visitors 91-4 and looking wobbly.

A lapse in concentration from McCaughan saw her steer a catch to backward point off Josie Groves with 57 to her name, as Blaze continued to press with spin from both ends, Glenn finishing a spell of 10 straight overs with 3-36.

Hampshire 189-7 v Blaze 192-3 #ODC 🏏

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Short on runs, Hampshire could ill-afford to mark time, but that is nonetheless what they found themselves doing. Abi Norgrove and Nancy Harman dug in for a few overs, but Norgrove was caught in the deep by Kathryn Bryce for 17 whilst Harman was LBW to Phillips for 19.

Freya Davies was given a let off by Sarah Bryce, who could only get her glove-tips to a flying edge behind the stumps, on her way to an unbeaten 23 as she and Poppy Tulloch (18) dragged Hampshire to 189-7 at the turn.

Hampshire 189-7 v Blaze #ODC 🏏

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With Blaze’s top 6 boasting just the 744 caps between them, Hampshire’s only option was to go on the attack in search of early wickets, posting slips to both opening bowlers. Amy Jones gave a half-chance early-doors to Davies off her own bowling, but it was struck so hard that Davies was not only unable to hold on, but had to leave the field temporarily for medical attention. Unfortunately for Jones however, Davies returned in time to bowl her next over – the England keeper slicing a catch to Lauren Bell at mid off for the opening wicket.

Bell meanwhile was making the batters look uncomfortable, but with no reward until the 10th over, when Kathryn Bryce chased a short, wide delivery she should probably have left alone and was caught by Norgrove at point. At the end of the powerplay, Blaze were 31-2. It wasn’t the 3 wickets in the powerplay they probably needed, but the third wicket wasn’t far behind – Bell striking again as Sarah Bryce spooned some catching practice to Poppy Tulloch, running around the umpire to take the catch at backward at square.

A period of quiet accumulation followed, with Georgia Elwiss playing much the same role for the Blaze that she did so often for Vipers – nudging and nurdling her contribution to a 50 partnership with Tammy Beaumont. Boundaries were hard to come by, but Beaumont brought up her 50 by absolutely hammering a pull through midwicket for 4, and followed it up with another 4 behind of square to put Blaze well in control at drinks on 106-3.

Hampshire 189-7 v Blaze 106-3 #ODC 🏏

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The 50 partnership between Elwiss and Beaumont turned into 100 off 115 balls, with the two old-timers continuing to play low-risk cricket – Elwiss also passing 50 as the finish line drew into view with the asking rate now under 3-an-over.

Hampshire 189-7 v Blaze 192-3 #ODC 🏏

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A century for Tammy Beaumont remained mathematically possible but looked unlikely until she suddenly exploded with a flurry of boundaries, including a six down the ground off Freya Davies, celebrating her hundred off just 110 balls and finishing on 112 off 113 balls as the Blaze won with a country mile to spare.

NEWS: Four Things We Learned From Charlotte Edwards At The World Cup Launch

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1. England won’t have a permanent vice-captain… at least for now

Charlotte Edwards went for a significant proportion of her own captaincy without a permanent vice-captain, and that’s the model she plans to follow as head coach, at least initially as she works out who in the squad might have the necessary skills to deputise for NSB: “It’s a time where I want to just have a little look at what the squads are going to look like. I don’t want to make that kind of decision just yet.”

She did, however, say that she plans to create a broader “leadership group” which will initially rotate between players across different series and formats. That was something Jon Lewis said he had done, but there was never much evidence of the group actually contributing to team strategy – so it will be interesting to see how visible the “group” (or groups?) is during matches in future.

2. Get your “Heather Knight Is Bowling” klaxons at the ready

Lest there be any doubt, Edwards very much sees Knight as an integral part of the England line-up over the next 2 years: “She’s been great around the group. I genuinely think we’re going to see Heather Knight scoring a lot of runs over the next couple of years.”

The new coach also wants to see a lot more of Knight’s off-spin – which was rarely used in the last 2 years of her captaincy: “We’ve had some good chats around where I see her role in the team. I want to see her bowling more, which she was quite excited about.”

3. Edwards wants the England players to post less on social media

During the World Cup last October, a number of England players attracted criticism when they posted photographs of themselves out and about in Dubai – and then got knocked out of the tournament in the group stages. Edwards is stamping down on that pretty unequivocally:

“We’ve got to look at our professional behaviours and how we go about stuff. We’ve got to change people’s perceptions. We’ve got to stop putting stuff on social media that doesn’t need to be on there. If it’s not going to positively impact on them or us as a group, then it probably isn’t worth posting.”

4. England’s squad to face West Indies will be selected on 12 May – and Emma Lamb should probably stay quite close to her phone

The new national selector will be in post by then and the idea is for that person, Edwards and NSB to sit down together to select the team to face West Indies.

Asked who had particularly impressed so far in domestic cricket, one name came immediately to the fore: “The leading run-scorer is Emma Lamb. She’s performing well – that’s exactly what I’ve asked people to go and do,” Edwards said.

ONE-DAY CUP: Hampshire v Surrey – Surrey Maia’d In Despair At Southampton

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Hampshire’s first home game of the new era – played out in front of a crowd of 600-odd on a sunny day at the Utilita Bowl – ended in a surprise 50-run win against trophy-favourites Surrey.

Hampshire v Surrey at The Bowl

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On a good batting track, with new England coach Charlotte Edwards looking on from the top of the Rod Bramsgrove Pavilion, this was the ideal chance for any number of England squaddies / hopefuls to stick up a hand.

But while Em Arlott hit a match-winning century over in Chelmsford, and Eve Jones struck 97 for Lancs down in the West Country, none of the half-centurions at Southampton managed to make quite such a definitive contribution.

Maia Bouchier’s gorgeous lofted drives and well-placed pulls will have pleased Edwards, and Bouchier herself labelled her 69-ball 61 as “really important” after a difficult Ashes series.

“All I can do is learn and grow from that, and try and improve in every possible way,” Bouchier said. “We [the England players] have got six games, and we’ll make the most of those six games. It’s really competitive at the moment and that’s what we want.”

But Bouchier was eventually lured into a well-signalled trap by ADR, who followed up her first bouncer by immediately bowling a second; Bouchier tried to hook this one, and only succeeded in edging to Kira Chathli behind the stumps.

Alice Capsey – presumably also desperate to impress Edwards – picked up a couple of cheap wickets with her off-spin, and then scratched out her own 81-ball fifty.

But Capsey was also involved in the unfortunate run-out of Paige Scholfield, who came three-quarters of the way down the track despite Capsey never leaving her ground, as Surrey collapsed to 93 for five.

To be fair, Surrey had earlier had to contend with a major disruption to their bowling plans: their opening bowler Phoebe Franklin left the field nursing an injury after just 10 balls, leaving Bryony Smith to step into the breach.

Hampshire initially made hay while the sun shone (literally), as openers Bouchier and Ella McCaughan put on a century stand in just 20 overs.

That should have laid the foundation for a 300+ total. Instead, a middle-over collapse of 3 for 11 saw the run-rate plummet, although some timely cameos from Abi Norgrove and Nancy Harman eventually pushed the total above 250.

Hampshire 259-8 v Surrey #MBODC 🏏

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Surrey boast the most England experience of any Tier 1 top order, so a target of 260 should have been well within their grasp. But some reckless slogging from Smith and Danni Wyatt-Hodge against Hampshire’s new-ball pair Lauren Bell and Freya Davies cost them two early wickets.

Sophia Dunkley then made a mess of trying to defend a fuller, straighter ball from Bell and was bowled, leaving Surrey three down at the end of the powerplay.

Two weeks ago, Surrey convincingly defeated Hampshire on this same ground in their pre-season warm-up after Alice Monaghan smashed a quickfire 71. But in the real thing, Monaghan’s deft, run-a-ball 40 – despite being struck with a fluency which put the top order to shame – couldn’t quite make up for the disastrous start.

Hampshire clearly felt the pressure as Monaghan’s 64-run partnership with Capsey progressed, dropping several catches and botching a couple of run-out chances. But the reintroduction of Linsey Smith in the 32nd over eventually did the trick, her sharp c&b seeing off Monaghan before fellow left-armer Bex Tyson wrapped things up with the final two Surrey wickets.

There’s still a long way to go, but for now, a Surrey team which everyone predicted would dominate this new competition are (alongside Essex) bringing up the rear of the Tier 1 points table.

2025 Season Preview: County Cricket Mark Two Begins

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After all the kerfuffle of last year’s domestic restructure, we’re about to find out what it is all going to look like in practice. There has been a reasonable amount of player movement in the off-season (Durham, after all, had to build an entire team from scratch!) so for some teams, it will also be a chance to see how these new squads are hanging together… or not, as the case may be.

Our Big Plan here at CRICKETher Towers is to try to attend at least one home game of each of the eight Tier 1 counties this season, partly to try to get a genuine sense of how well teams are being supported behind the scenes. So watch out for a more even geographical spread of match reports than usual!

In the meantime, here are some predictions for the season (full squads at the bottom of the page):

Who’s going to win the One-Day Cup?

Raf: Counties were told by the ECB that they had to offer contracts to a minimum of 15 players. The deep pockets at Surrey decided that wasn’t good enough and have offered out 17 full contracts – that’s in addition to the 4 contracted England players in their squad, who as we now know will be available for the first 6 rounds of the One-Day Cup. There could be a lot of thumb-twiddling going on, but it’s also hard to look past such a well-stocked team (which is almost identical to last year’s Stars squad) for silverware.

Syd: Don’t ask me… ask the data! I carved-up the impact stats (full data here and here) from the regional era and added up the scores for the best 11 players in each squad.

That brought a clear winner to the surface: The Blaze. With their England players likely to be available for the key fixtures at the start of the season, I’m backing them to build up a sufficient head of steam to power them through the group stages. There will still be the knockouts to come in September of course, but assuming the Bryces are not off to the World Cup (which unfortunately looks unlikely at the time of writing) I think they can still do it.

Who’s going to win the T20 Blast?

Syd: The data above shows the squads with their England players included, but of course they aren’t going to be available for a chunk of the season, which particularly affects the Blast. So I took the England players out and re-ran the numbers:

This paints a very different picture, with Surrey and serial-underperformers Lancashire at the front; so I’m backing Surrey’s power-batting lineup, led by Bryony Smith, to knock the Blast out of the park.

Raf: The Blaze are the reigning champions [Ed: are you still reigning champions when the competition changes its name?] and I can see them pulling it off again this year. Similarly to Surrey, they have the same core squad as 2024 – and this time they will have both Bryces available for the whole season. The only question is whether the trophy will be emblazoned (gettit??!) with the name “Blaze”, or whether Notts might put their foot down at that point!

Who will get the wooden spoon?

Raf: Rumour has it that negotiations were a bit tricky behind the scenes at Central Sparks / Warwickshire last year, with the upshot that the squad they’ve ended up with isn’t necessarily the one they thought they would get. That’s always a difficult dynamic to negotiate – players may feel aggrieved or anxious to prove themselves – so while they’ve got some brilliantly talented young players (I’m excited to see what Dav Perrin does this season), I think they might struggle overall.

Syd: The numbers don’t look good for Warwickshire, but they look a lot worse for Somerset especially without their England players. A lot depends though on what Charlotte Edwards decides to do with a certain Heather Knight – I think she’s likely to continue playing ODIs, but if she gets dropped from the T20 format she’ll play a lot more domestic cricket and could single-handedly haul Somerset to something like respectability.

Who’s our one to watch?

Raf: I’m intrigued to see how Rhianna Southby gets on for Hampshire. We got a sneaky peek at her in their warm-up against Surrey at the Utilita Bowl last week (she hit a run-a-ball 42) and her batting looks to have come on leaps and bounds over the winter. Her keeping has always been top-notch; it’s been her batting which has kept her out of contention as a possible Amy Jones successor – could this be the season where she defies those expectations?

Syd: The wicket-keeping succession battle is certainly an interesting one, and I’ll be keeping a close watch on two of the other contenders – Seren Smale and Bess Heath. Heath’s move to Durham is a sensible one, ensuring she is their first-choice with the gloves for the first time in her professional career, having played second-fiddle (second-glove?) to Lauren Winfield-Hill at Diamonds previously. Smale, though, still has that problem with Ellie Threlkeld playing first-glove at Lancashire, so will really need to kick on with the bat to nudge the eyes of England’s soon-to-be-appointed new selector.

Who’s our golden oldie?

Raf: Hilariously, Sophie Luff was already considered a “golden oldie” by Syd last time we wrote one of these previews in 2021. To be fair, she does seem to have been a mainstay of women’s domestic cricket for eons (despite only being 31), and has been the face of most of the “revolutions” we’ve seen in the past decade (the KSL, regionals, The Hundred… phew!) Even after the ECB tried to abolish county cricket via the back door in 2019, Luff continued to spearhead Somerset, so it seems only fitting that she now leads them into the professional era.

Syd: Let’s go back all the way to 2010 – Berkshire are playing in the final of the T20 Cup against mighty Yorkshire. The top scorer for Yorkshire is one Dani Hazell (you might have heard of her) but Yorkshire can’t overhaul Berkshire’s 1st innings total of 173, of which 61 (off 46 balls) were scored by an exciting young player called “Alice” Macleod. Arguably, Lissy (she’s a mononym these days, like Elvis with a cricket bat!) didn’t quite fulfill her potential. She never played for England, but she went on to win the KSL with two different teams, and when Sunrisers won the RHF Trophy last season, she was a big part of that too. Now in her 30s, she’ll be wearing an Essex shirt this season, and playing a valuable role there as the “senior pro” as well as skippering the side if / when Grace Scrivens gets her England call-up.

Who’ll be the overall MVP?

Syd: Possibly my most left-field cricket take (yes… even more left-field than that Grace Scrivens one!) is that Katie George could still end up with 50 England caps… but as a batter rather than a bowler! I agree with Raf that Warwickshire are likely to struggle this season, but if they don’t then George will have been a big part of why they didn’t. She has been much more in control of her bowling in the last couple of years, both in terms of consistency and looking less like a lower-back injury waiting to happen; and her batting is starting to develop from “late-middle-order” to “proper middle-order”. If she can fulfil that promise, it will make her a very valuable asset indeed as she enters her peak years between 26 and 30.

Raf: From a marketing perspective, you’d have to say Ellyse Perry! As the most high-profile signing ever in the history of women’s county cricket, she’s certainly going to get the punters flocking to the Utilita during July, which is why Hampshire are (we assume) paying her the big bucks…

And what about Tier 2?

Raf: Well, it’s going to be quite embarrassing for Yorkshire if they don’t manage to finish on top, given that they are meant to be joining Tier 1 in a year’s time! They are also the only Tier 2 county who are actually handing out paid contracts to their players this year (thanks to the, ahem, largesse of Colin Graves).

Syd: Tier 2 is going to be… interesting. Which, as the apocryphal proverb about “interesting times” implies, isn’t always a good thing. Yorkshire aside, the standards are not going to be anywhere near professional, because these aren’t professional cricket teams. That doesn’t mean it can’t be competitive and exciting, and huge for the players involved; but I worry that fans that come to watch Tier 2 expecting the kind of women’s cricket they’ve seen on TV at the WPL or the World Cup are going to experience a reality-check that could leave them with a bitter aftertaste on the way home.

Raf: One thing which is still very much TBC is how the dynamic will work between Tier 1 and Tier 2 counties. Will “benched” Tier 1 players be permitted by their counties to go out on loan? Even if they are, will Tier 2 counties get parochial and promote their own players ahead of loaned-pros? Hopefully the counties can find a way to work together to present the best face of the women’s game to “new” spectators lending their support from men’s teams.

Full squads:

Durham – Hollie Armitage (captain), Suzie Bates (overseas), Lauren Filer (England contract), Bess Heath (England contract), Emily Windsor, Mady Villiers, Emma Marlow, Katherine Fraser, Leah Dobson, Katie Levick, Phoebe Turner, Lizzie Scott, Trudy Johnson (Rookie), Mia Rogers (Rookie), Abi Glen (Rookie), Sophia Turner (Rookie)

Essex – Grace Scrivens (captain), Maddie Penna (overseas), Amara Carr, Kelly Castle, Kate Coppack, Ariana Dowse, Jo Gardner, Eva Gray, Jodi Grewcock, Cordelia Griffith, Abtaha Maqsood, Lissy Macleod, Esmae MacGregor, Florence Miller, Sophie Munro, Sophia Smale

Hampshire – Georgia Adams (captain), Ellyse Perry (overseas), Charli Knott (overseas), Maia Bouchier (Eng contract), Freya Kemp (Eng contract), Lauren Bell (Eng contract), Linsey Smith (Eng contract), Ella McCaughan, Nancy Harman, Freya Davies, Rhianna Southby, Mary Taylor, Poppy Tulloch, Daisy Gibb, Ava Lee, Abi Norgrove, Megan Sturge, Rebecca Tyson, Naomi Dattani

Lancashire – Ellie Threlkeld (captain), Alana King (overseas), Katie Mack (overseas), Kate Cross (Eng contract), Sophie Ecclestone (Eng contract), Mahika Gaur (Eng contract), Olivia Bell, Darcey Carter, Alice Clarke, Danielle Collins, Phoebe Graham, Liberty Heap, Grace Johnson, Eve Jones, Hannah Jones, Emma Lamb, Ailsa Lister, Fi Morris, Sophie Morris, Tara Norris, Grace Potts, Hannah Rainey, Seren Smale

Nottinghamshire (The Blaze) – Kirstie Gordon (captain), Heather Graham (overseas), Orla Prendergast (overseas), Tammy Beaumont (Eng contract), Amy Jones (Eng contract), Nat Sciver-Brunt (Eng contract), Sarah Glenn (Eng contract), Grace Ballinger, Georgie Boyce, Sarah Bryce, Kathryn Bryce, Ella Claridge, Georgia Elwiss, Josie Groves, Lucy Higham, Scarlett Hughes, Marie Kelly, Michaela Kirk, Cassidy McCarthy, Charley Phillips, Oliva Baker (Rookie), Amy Wheeler (Rookie), Prisha Thanawala (Rookie)

Somerset – Sophie Luff (captain), Amanda-Jade Wellington (overseas), Charlie Dean (Eng contract), Heather Knight (Eng contract), Dani Gibson (Eng contract), Fran Wilson, Katie Jones, Emma Corney, Ellie Anderson, Rebecca Odgers, Mollie Robbins, Chloe Skelton, Laura Jackson, Alex Griffiths, Niamh Holland, Jess Hazell, Amelia Munday (Rookie), Oliva Barnes (Rookie), Lola Harris (Rookie), Erin Vukusic (Rookie)

Surrey – Bryony Smith (captain), Tash Farrant (vice-captain), Grace Harris (overseas), Alice Capsey (Eng contract), Danni Wyatt-Hodge (Eng contract), Sophia Dunkley (Eng contract), Ryana MacDonald-Gay (Eng contract), Alexa Stonehouse, Alice Davidson-Richards, Alice Monaghan, Aylish Cranstone, Bethan Miles, Charlotte Lambert, Dani Gregory, Emma Jones, Jemima Spence, Kalea Moore, Kira Chathli, Paige Scholfield, Phoebe Franklin, Priyanaz Chatterji, Tilly Corteen-Coleman

Warwickshire – Georgia Davis (captain), Nat Wraith, Hannah Baker, Millie Taylor, Katie George, Chloe Brewer, Bethan Ellis, Hannah Hardwick, Amu Surenkumar, Abbey Freeborn, Em Arlott, Charis Pavely, Davina Perrin, Issy Wong, Meg Austin (Rookie), Sterre Kalis (on loan from Yorkshire)