WOMEN’S CRICKET
By Richard Edwards
TAMMY BEAUMONT laughs as she recalls the moment she was recognised on the tube, bashfully telling The Cricket Paper that it was the sort of thing that would not have happened before the World Cup triumph a year ago last week.
Now, with the KSL in full swing, the Southern Vipers star believes Heather Knight’s England are on track for something far more fundamental than being recognised in public.
And that’s to provide the next generation of women cricketers with female rolemodels to emulate rather than the male cricketers she grew up idoli...