Southern Vipers’ Georgia Adams in motion throughout her facet’s victory within the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Remaining at Edgbaston
Southern Vipers will defend the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy this summer season after it was confirmed the event will proceed to be named after the previous England captain.
Vipers gained the inaugural version of the regional 50-over competitors – recognising the contribution made to cricket by Baroness Rachael Heyhoe Flint OBE – and now have their sights set on the 2021 closing, which can be staged on September 25.
The competitors can be performed alongside a brand new Ladies’s Regional T20 event; on account of begin on June 26, it’ll comprise of eight groups cut up into two teams of 4.
ECB Managing Director of Ladies’s Cricket, Clare Connor, mentioned: “This guarantees to be a really memorable summer season of cricket for the ladies’s sport.
“We aren’t solely set to additional professionalise the sport with extra gamers on full-time contracts than ever earlier than however, crucially, we are going to showcase our sport to extra younger women throughout England and Wales in order that they’ll say cricket is a sport for them.
8:56 The ECB reaffirmed their dedication to increasing the ladies’s sport by creating the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy event
“I’m significantly proud that we are going to proceed to maneuver ahead with Rachael Heyhoe Flint’s identify, with all the things she represented for ladies’s cricket, firmly entrenched in our journey.
“The launch of ladies’s regional cricket final summer season, regardless of the challenges attributable to the pandemic, was one other vital step ahead for our home sport. We at the moment are trying ahead to seeing these regional groups play twice as a lot cricket this summer season with the addition of the T20 competitors.”
Baroness Rachael Heyhoe Flint OBE led England on the first-ever World Cup in 1973 whereas off the sector her willpower for equality laid the foundations for the alternatives offered to modern-day gamers.
This summer season 41 feminine gamers have signed full-time skilled home contracts – along with 17 centrally contracted England gamers – whereas the launch of The Hundred will set up additional alternative for feminine cricketers.
Fixtures
(RHFT signifies Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy; WRC 20 signifies Ladies’s Regional Cricket T20)
June 12: Central Sparks vs Thunder, New Street – RHFT
June 12: Western Storm vs Southern Vipers, tbc – RHFT
June 26: Lightning vs South East Stars, Trent Bridge – WRC 20
June 26: Central Sparks vs Southern Vipers, Edgbaston – WRC 20 (floodlit)
June 26: Northern Diamonds vs Thunder, Emerald Headingley – WRC 20
June 26: Western Storm vs Sunrisers, The Cooper Associates County Floor – WRC 20
July 2: Sunrisers vs Northern Diamonds, The Cloudfm County Floor – WRC 20 (floodlit)
July 3: South East Stars vs Central Sparks, tbc, WRC 20
July 3: Southern Vipers vs Lightning, tbc, WRC 20
July 3: Thunder vs Western Storm, tbc, WRC 20
July 9: Thunder vs Sunrisers, Emirates Outdated Trafford – WRC 20
July 10: Lightning vs Central Sparks, tbc – WRC 20
July 10: South East Stars vs Southern Vipers, tbc – WRC 20
July 10: Western Storm vs Northern Diamonds, The Cooper Associates County Floor – WRC 20
August 25: South East Stars vs Lightning, tbc – WRC 20
August 25: Southern Vipers vs Central Sparks, tbc – WRC 20
August 25: Northern Diamonds vs Sunrisers, tbc – WRC 20
August 25: Western Storm vs Thunder, Sophia Gardens – WRC 20
August 28: Central Sparks vs Lightning, New Street – WRC 20
August 28: Southern Vipers vs South East Stars, tbc – WRC 20
August 28: Northern Diamonds vs Western Storm, Emirates Riverside – WRC 20
August 28: Sunrisers vs Thunder, The County Floor Northampton – WRC 20
August 30: Lightning vs Southern Vipers, The Incora County Floor – WRC 20
August 30: Central Sparks vs South East Stars, New Street – WRC 20
August 30: Sunrisers vs Western Storm, tbc – WRC 20
August 30: Thunder vs Northern Diamonds, tbc – WRC 20
September 5: Finals Day, tbc – WRC 20
September 10: Northern Diamonds vs Western Storm, Emirates Riverside – RHFT
September 10: South East Stars vs Lightning, tbc – RHFT
September 10: Sunrisers vs Central Sparks, tbc – RHFT
September 10: Thunder vs Southern Vipers, tbc – RHFT
September 12: Northern Diamonds vs Thunder, Emirates Riverside – RHFT
September 12: Central Sparks vs South East Stars, New Street – RHFT
September 12: Western Storm vs Lightning, Bristol County Floor – RHFT
September 12: Sunrisers vs Southern Vipers, tbc – RHFT
September 18: Lightning vs Central Sparks, tbc – RHFT
September 18: South East Stars vs Thunder, tbc – RHFT
September 18: Western Storm vs Sunrisers, Bristol County Floor – RHFT
September 18: Southern Vipers vs Northern Diamonds, tbc – RHFT
September 22: second vs third play-off, tbc – RHFT
September 25: Remaining, tbc – RHFT
