Story, 25, from Chippenham started playing the sport in Wiltshire before joining Gloucestershire in 2023. <\/p>\n
She said women’s cricket has seen “really dramatic growth” since the last time the world cup was hosted in England and that fans should expect “unpredictable, fast and exciting” cricket again this summer. <\/p>\n
Former player and now Women’s Head Coach at Gloucestershire, Fran Wilson, played in the last home world cup. <\/p>\n
“Knowing you’ve got so much support and the grounds are gonna be full, it’s really, really special,” said Wilson. <\/p>\n
Bristol hosted four Women’s Rugby World Cup games at Ashton Gate last year which deputy leader of Bristol City council Heather Mack said was “incredible for the city”. <\/p>\n
A report commissioned by World Rugby found the tournament generated \u00a347.7m for Bristol’s economy. <\/p>\n
Mack said: “We are honoured to keep getting these events which champion our women in sport”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Story, 25, from Chippenham started playing the sport in Wiltshire before joining Gloucestershire in 2023. She said women’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-457885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}