The inaugural girls’s Metro Financial institution One Day Cup in 2025 begins on April 19 and right here is all the things it’s worthwhile to know.
The eight counties from Tier One in girls’s cricket will compete for the Metro Financial institution One Day Cup, with the remaining 10 battling it out within the Metro Financial institution One Day Cup League 2.
Prime Tier: Durham, Essex, Hampshire Hawks, Lancashire Thunder, Somerset, Surrey, The Blaze (Nottinghamshire), Warwickshire
League Two: Derbyshire Falcons, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Kent, Leicestershire Foxes, Middlesex, Northamptonshire Steelbacks, Sussex Sharks, Worcestershire Rapids, Yorkshire
Durham
Led by captain Hollie Armitage, Durham are in good arms with the all-rounder who bats, bowls leg-spin, and impresses on the sphere too.
Her strongest efficiency is with the bat, and the 27-year-old, who is ready to captain England A Ladies staff for his or her upcoming tour to Australia, might be hoping for some huge scores that may assist her grow to be an everyday decide for the principle staff.
All-rounder Phoebe Turner has impressed for the Northern Diamonds, and the 21-year-old may even be hoping to seize the eye of the England selectors.
Their abroad decide of New Zealand captain Suzie Bates will add expertise to the squad and with England pacer Lauren Filer additionally within the combine, Durham have lots to show to.
Squad: Hollie Armitage (captain), Suzie Bates, Leah Dobson, Lauren Filer, Katherine Fraser, Abi Glen, Bess Heath, Trudy Johnson, Katie Levick, Emma Marlow, Mia Rogers, Lizzie Scott, Phoebe Turner, Sophia Turner, Mady Villiers, Emily Windsor.
Essex
Having largely stored collectively the Sunrisers squad, which gained the Rachael Heyhoe Flint trophy final season, Essex will head into this season stuffed with confidence.
They’re led by 21-year-old Grace Scrivens, who has loads of expertise in high-pressure conditions after main the Underneath-19 England facet to the World Cup ultimate in 2023.
Sluggish left-armer Sophia Smale has huge boots to fill after Mady Villiers’s departure to Durham, however the 20-year-old has impressed on for the U19s and in The Hundred so will deliver confidence.
With a powerful bowling line-up which additionally contains 23-year-old seamer Sophie Munro, and leg-spin duo Jodi Grewcock and Abtaha Maqsood, Essex might be relying closely on their opening batters to attain huge.
Squad: Grace Scrivens (captain), Maddie Blinkhorn-Jones, Amara Carr, Kelly Citadel, Kate Coppack, Ariana Dowse, Jo Gardner, Eva Grey, Jodi Grewcock, Cordelia Griffith, Esmae MacGregor, Lissy Macleod, Abta Maqsood, Flo Miller, Sophie Munro, Sophia Smale.
Hampshire
Former head coach Charlotte Edwards gained seven trophies and boosted loads of cricketers. Now, Hampshire should take a look at life past as Edwards begins her reign as England’s head coach.
Former Essex males’s captain Paul Prichard is now in cost and has a difficult process forward of him to match as much as Edwards.
Nonetheless, cricketing icon Ellyse Perry will play for Hampshire Hawks on this summer time’s Vitality Blast. The Australian all-rounder expressed her disappointment at lacking out on working with Charlotte Edwards at Hampshire, however believes she will flip issues round for England as their new head coach.
Charlotte Edwards was named England’s new head coach earlier this yr
Perry is the world’s top-ranked girls’s all-rounder, boasting quite a few accolades, together with two-time ICC Ladies’s Cricketer of the 12 months, named ICC Participant of the Decade in 2020, and successful Australia’s Ladies’s Worldwide Cricketer of the 12 months on three events.
The youngest-ever cricketer, male or feminine, to characterize Australia, Perry has been on the high of the sport for one of the best a part of 20 years and is among the most embellished athletes on the planet.
She is ready to make her Hampshire debut at Chesterfield on July 4 towards The Blaze, earlier than making her Utilita Bowl debut for the Hawks towards Somerset on July 6.
Squad: Georgia Adams (captain), Charli Knott, Ellyse Perry, Maia Bouchier, Lauren Bell, Freya Kemp, Nancy Harman, Linsey Smith, Rhianna Southby, Ella McCaughan, Mary Taylor, Freya Davies, Bex Tyson, Naomi Dattani, Megan Sturge, Ava Lee, Abi Norgrove, Daisy Mullan, Poppy Tulloch (rookie), Daisy Gibb (rookie).
Lancashire
Lancashire have solely made it previous the group levels as soon as over 5 years of regional cricket, in order that might be one in every of their targets this season.
They’ve the expertise of senior England seamer Kate Cross and sluggish left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone, who tops the ICC charts for finest ODI bowler.
The bowling line-up may even see Australia’s Alana King be part of Lancashire because the abroad signing. The 29-year-old leg-spinner took 23 wickets through the Ladies’s Ashes earlier this yr, essentially the most taken by a bowler alongside Ash Gardner, who additionally picked up 23 within the earlier Ashes in 2023.
Australia’s Alana King and Beth Mooney rejoice retaining the Ladies’s Ashes towards England
Lancashire might be led by wicketkeeper batter Ellie Threlkeld, who might be hoping to keep up her home kind.
Squad: Ellie Threlkeld (captain), Olivia Bell, Alice Clarke, Danielle Collins, Kate Cross, Sophie Ecclestone, Mahika Gaur, Phoebe Graham, Liberty Heap, Hannah Jones, Alana King, Emma Lamb, Ailsa Lister, Katie Mack, Fi Morris, Sophie Morris, Tara Norris, Hannah Rainey, Seren Smale.
Somerset
On paper, Somerset’s squad is powerful with the likes of England’s former captain Heather Knight, off-spinner Charlie Dean, and all-rounder Danielle Gibson. Nonetheless, most of those gamers are prone to be absent as a result of England obligation, which might be a defining issue of their success.
Charlie Dean alongside former England captain Heather Knight
Australian leg-spinner Amanda-Jade Wellington will hyperlink up with Somerset, and her wicket-taking capacity will imply she is harmful to play towards. However not solely that, the 27-year-old can also be recognized to be a fiery batter on the tail.
Squad: Heather Knight, Emma Corney, Sophie Luff, Fran Wilson, Rebecca Odgers, Charlie Dean, Dani Gibson, Alex Griffiths, Niamh Holland, Amelie Munday, Erin Vukusic, Amanda-Jade Wellington, Olivia Barnes, Katie Jones, Jess Hazell, Laura Jackson, Lola Harris, Chloe Skelton, Mollie Robbins, Ellie Anderson.
Surrey
There’s loads of England expertise within the ranks for Surrey, with the likes of opening batting pair Sophia Dunkley, Danni Wyatt-Hodge, and all-rounder Alice Capsey, which ought to give them a powerful begin.
Danni Wyatt-Hodge bowled by Alana King within the second ODI of the Ladies’s Ashes sequence
Led by Bryony Smith, Surrey might be hoping to seize some silverware after falling simply brief in earlier seasons. There’s loads of expertise within the squad in addition to some rising stars, together with Tilly Corteen-Coleman, who was the youngest participant ever to characteristic in The Hundred when she made her debut for the Southern Courageous at simply 16.
Squad: Bryony Smith (captain), Alice Capsey, Kira Chathli, Priyanaz Chatterji, Tilly Corteen-Coleman, Aylish Cranstone, Alice Davidson-Richards, Sophia Dunkley, Tash Farrant, Phoebe Franklin, Danielle Gregory, Charlotte Lambert, Emma Jones, Ryana MacDonald-Homosexual, Bethan Miles, Alice Monaghan, Kalea Moore, Paige Scholfield, Jemima Spence, Alexa Stonehouse, Danni Wyatt-Hodge.
The Blaze
The Blaze gained the Charlotte Edwards Cup in 2024 underneath Chris Visitor and might be hoping to copy that success this time round. Nonetheless, this time will probably be underneath Craig Cumming after Visitor departed to steer England’s U19s facet.
Additionally they have loads of England gamers within the ranks together with Sarah Glenn, Nat Sciver-Brunt, and Tammy Beaumont, so they are going to be hoping to make use of that to their benefit.
They’ve additionally added England wicketkeeper Amy Jones to the setup to present them a much bigger enhance, and after failing to make it to the knock-out levels final season, captain Kirstie Gordon might be hoping to place that proper.
Tammy Beaumont will play for The Blaze this season as they give the impression of being to win some extra silverware
Squad: Kirstie Gordon (captain), Grace Ballinger, Sarah Glenn, Georgie Boyce, Josie Groves, Cassidy McCarthy, Lucy Higham, Sarah Bryce, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Tammy Beaumont, Kathryn Bryce, Prisha Thanawala, Charley Phillips, Marie Kelly, Michaela Kirk, Ella Claridge, Georgia Elwiss, Amy Jones, Olivia Baker, Amy Wheeler, Scarlett Hughes, Heather Graham, Orla Prendergast.
Warwickshire
With the complete integration of the ladies’s staff into the county set-up, Warwickshire are at first of a brand new and thrilling chapter.
They are going to be captained by off-spinner Georgia Davis with Ali Maiden named as their head coach, each of whom might be underneath stress to ship outcomes.
Squad: Georgia Davis (Captain), Meg Austin, Em Arlott, Chloe Brewer, Hannah Baker, Bethan Ellis, Abbey Freeborn, Katie George, Hannah Hardwick, Charis Pavely, Davina Perrin, Amu Surenkumar, Millie Taylor, Issy Wong, Nat Wraith.
