Gemma Barton, head of strategic growth at the ECB, said the project demonstrated they could help make community sport more accessible and inclusive.<\/p>\n
“These women all have moments [where] they have created change within the game,” she said of the 53.<\/p>\n
“Whether that was winning the World Cup themselves, whether that’s changing policy, making the game more inclusive, or getting more girls playing cricket every single week within their cricket clubs.<\/p>\n
“We’re seeing astronomical growth in the women’s and girls’ game, and it’s really important for us that we have more women and girls playing cricket at every single level.”<\/p>\n
Fidelis Navas, director of Warwickshire Cricket Foundation, said female participation in the county had increased significantly in recent years.<\/p>\n
“We have seen a 75% increase in the number of women and girls fixtures in Warwickshire alone, and I know that those kinds of numbers are happening across the country,” she said.<\/p>\n
“That’s why it’s so exciting to be here today to champion all the work that’s happened, but also thinking about what is to come,” she said.<\/p>\n
An ECB spokesperson said celebrating women working in a variety of roles helped challenge the perception of who could be involved in cricket.<\/p>\n
Tweddle said she wanted to show that everyone could be involved.<\/p>\n
“When I became a grounds person, I think the one thing I wanted to do was make it really inclusive,” she smiled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gemma Barton, head of strategic growth at the ECB, said the project demonstrated they could help make community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-632826","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\/632826","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=632826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}