Cat is just finishing Year 12 and plays internationally for Spain. She says she watches how the England team do things carefully and wants to bring leadership skills into her own captaincy at RGS Worcester next year.<\/p>\n
She said: “Nat Sciver-Brunt is one of my role models. I’ve looked up to her ever since I started cricket when I was 10, and seeing her step into the role of England captain has been so inspiring and something that I would definitely want to take on to RGS next season.”<\/p>\n
Elsa captains the Under-15s team and has been playing cricket at school since she was in year 3. She told the BBC more schools should offer it to girls as a sport.<\/p>\n
She said: “I think it builds good teamwork and leadership skills that you can take into life.”<\/p>\n
15-year-old Naomi thinks it’s inspiring to see England’s women play on such a big stage and she hopes it will change the perspective of the sport.<\/p>\n
“A lot of people say it’s mainly a boys sport, and then they see how strong our team is. They are like ‘oh my gosh I didn’t know that a girl could bowl so fast or a girl could hit that far’,” she added.<\/p>\n
Esme, who’s also 15, is excited to go and watch the Test at Lord’s.<\/p>\n
She explained: ” I think just seeing the way the whole crowd get involved and the way that everyone backs their country… obviously we’re used to it in football and men’s cricket, but seeing them all with the England flags at the girls cricket is very inspiring.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cat is just finishing Year 12 and plays internationally for Spain. She says she watches how the England…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-685739","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\/685739","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=685739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}