{"id":635288,"date":"2026-06-12T18:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635288\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:15:11","slug":"kirsty-gordon-eyes-t20-world-cup-impact-with-scotland-eight-years-after-england-switch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635288\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirsty Gordon eyes T20 World Cup impact with Scotland eight years after England switch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kirstie Gordon is sitting on the steps of the Grange pavilion on a sunny Edinburgh afternoon, reminiscing about her previous stint as a Scotland cricketer.<\/p>\n

When Gordon, now 28, took the momentous decision to pursue a full-time career in the English professional system in 2018, she had to give up playing for Scotland and declare for England. <\/p>\n

Such were her performances for Loughborough Lightning, the left-arm spinner was called up by England for the 2018 T20 World Cup. <\/p>\n

She played five times as England finished runners-up and subsequently earned Test honours against Australia in 2019. <\/p>\n

However, Gordon fell down the spinning pecking order with England and the lure of playing for the country of her birth again gnawed away. <\/p>\n

She switched allegiance back to Scotland in December last year, with ECB rules now allowing Scots to play professionally in England while still playing international cricket.<\/p>\n

A back injury delayed Gordon’s Scotland return, but she is now preparing for her second T20 World Cup, which starts against Ireland at Old Trafford on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“It feels like it’s been a long time coming,” she said before starring in her first match back, taking 3-27 in a win over the Netherlands<\/a> last month. <\/p>\n

“It was on my mind for a long time, a number of years really, just making sure it was the right time and I was ready to make that decision. I definitely feel now is the right time and I can leave that chapter with no regrets.<\/p>\n

“It took a while and a lot of chats with [head coach] Craig Wallace. It got to the stage in the middle of 2025 where I was saying to him ‘I think I’m ready’. His passion shone through and I thought it was a project I want to be involved in.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirstie Gordon is sitting on the steps of the Grange pavilion on a sunny Edinburgh afternoon, reminiscing about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-635288","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\/635288","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=635288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}