Cricket is a fabulous game, so many different ways of playing, and offering great opportunities to enrich your life. I play, I coach, I score, I manage and I support. And I have a great time socialising with my friends!
Through playing for MCC women, I get to meet loads of different people, and play all over the world. At a local level, captaining my clubs women’s team is really exciting, a mix of young girls and older women, all having great fun and learning together. Cricket really is a game for all ages and I am now playing seniors cricket, for men's and women’s teams, and can finally play with people of my own age again!
I love being part of the family of a local club, and being the club Cricket Manager is fun and is also a challenge! Having good organisational skills and experience of working in committees has helped me in my voluntary role as a Director of Middlesex CCC, where I chair the Middlesex Women's Cricket Committee, and can influence the direction of cricket in the county
Other fun opportunities that cricket has brought me are trips to Australia and West indies to watch England play, trips to Brazil and Kenya to coach in schools and community projects, pre-season training in Corfu and a trip to Norway to play in a women’s tournament
I got in to cricket in my 20s, when I worked behind a bar in an indoor cricket centre, and mixed teams needed a woman player. I have never looked back. Didn’t even miss a full season when I had a child!
My proudest moment was playing in the first ever MCC women’s game. We had broken the glass ceiling and women were finally allowed in to this all male institution. Women can effect change
In cricket, you are part of a community, and the friends you make are friends for life