Number 10 marks a turning point in my rankings, I am very fond of all remaining grounds and found them quite difficult to rank. <\/p>\n
New Road is an excellent ground, especially well suited to women’s domestic cricket with a slightly smaller capacity to most of the grounds that make their way into into my top 10.<\/p>\n
Poor memories of a disappointing T20 cup final in 2023, where my side lost to Southern Vipers (now Hampshire women) in the final after winning every group game. A particularly forgettable day for me, who opened the bowling and conceded 20 off the opening over.<\/p>\n
9 – Cooper Associates County Ground (Somerset)<\/p>\n
The club and ground alike definitely have a good feel around them. It feels like the people in Somerset love their cricket, the games are well-attended and the teams supported. The changing rooms are also great, with a good viewing balcony to watch the batting innings.<\/p>\n
I spent a good week here this summer with England A and thoroughly enjoyed trying all the coffee shops nearby. <\/p>\n
That being said, the pitches didn’t have much in it for seam bowling and took spin quite nicely. I think this ground has potential to slide up my rankings in future.<\/p>\n
8 – Edgbaston (Warwickshire)<\/p>\n
Edgbaston is my former home ground, after growing up in Birmingham and spending around 10 years playing for the club. Fond memories here give it a bit of a bias (albeit most of these memories are in the indoor school as opposed to the ground!)<\/p>\n
I always enjoy playing at Edgbaston, and I love bowling there – mainly from the Pavilion End. I feel like it is probably one of my most successful away grounds, I always tend to take wickets here and also often return up the M42 with a win.<\/p>\n
Personally, I feel like it has a slightly commercial feel to it, and prefer a more ‘classical’ appearing cricket ground (such as Taunton).<\/p>\n
7 – Emirates Old Trafford (Lancashire)<\/p>\n
I called Old Trafford my home for the first time this summer, playing for Manchester Super Giants. I really enjoyed my time there, but for some reason, our home form wasn’t great! <\/p>\n
I love that Lancashire is a club with history, and Manchester is one of my favourite UK cities.<\/p>\n
Pitches are often quite slow, and lower scoring, which I enjoy as a bowler. However, it rains far too often.<\/p>\n
6 – County Ground, Hove (Sussex)<\/p>\n
This was my final ground of the 18 to tick off, and I did so this summer with an England A ODI vs India A. <\/p>\n
It’s a lovely little ground, but I found it quite difficult to bowl there, especially after being tasked with bowling up the hill.<\/p>\n
Its high ranking is partly based on the fact I had a fantastic weekend staying in Brighton whilst playing there, starting my mornings with a sea swim before training.<\/p>\n
5 – Lord’s (Middlesex)<\/p>\n
There are a number of reasons to love playing at Lord’s. <\/p>\n
Firstly, of course, is the privilege of playing at a ground with such a rich history. I also love bowling from both ends here, controversially favouring the Pavilion End as a left-arm seamer, and find the outfield is great.<\/p>\n
It goes without saying, one of the best things about Lord’s is also the teas.<\/p>\n
I also have extremely fond memories of winning The Hundred here in 2025 with the Northern Superchargers – one of the greatest days in my career.<\/p>\n
All of my experiences playing at Lord’s are in either T20 cricket or the Hundred, but I feel like the atmosphere there probably best suits red-ball cricket.<\/p>\n
4 – Banks Home Riverside (Durham)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Number 10 marks a turning point in my rankings, I am very fond of all remaining grounds and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772563","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\/772563","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=772563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}