Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy
The Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy is an English and Welsh women's cricket domestic competition, named after former England captain Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe-Flint, who died in 2017. The first edition of the tournament took place during August and September 2020, with the Southern Vipers beating the Northern Diamonds in the final. Initially started as a one-off tournament, in February 2021 the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced it would return for the 2021 season as a permanent part of the women's domestic structure in England and Wales, alongside the Charlotte Edwards Cup.
Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy
Women's cricket is the team sport of cricket when played by women. Its
rules are almost identical to those in the game played by men, the main change being the use of a smaller ball. Women's cricket is beginning to be played at professional level in 11 of the 12 full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), and is played worldwide, especially in Commonwealth nations.
Australian batter Meg Lanning plays a sweep shot while Merissa Aguilleira of the West Indies keeps wicket during the 2014 West Indies tour of Australia at the North Sydney Oval.
Watercolor painting from 1779 of a ladies cricket match played by Elizabeth Smith-Stanley, Countess of Derby and other women
A satirical image of a woman cricketer and a woman hunter from 1778. They're both wearing late-Georgian fashion with satirically shortened hemlines and one treads on a piece of paper titled "effeminacy".
Photo from 1934–35 England tour of Australia and New Zealand. The England team (L) wear divided skirts and white stockings. The "Woollengong" (sic) women's cricket team wear trousers, something that was described at the time as disgraceful.