England captain Charlotte Edwards has become the first woman to join the MCC world cricket committee, alongside former England skipper Michael Vaughan, Kent director of cricket Jimmy Adams and Rod Marsh.
England women will play three additional NatWest International Twenty20 fixtures against Ireland and Pakistan later this summer at the National Cricket Performance Centre, Loughborough University.
All-rounder Alice MacLeod says the England women’s academy tour of South Africa has whetted her appetite for next year’s World Cup.
Shandre Fritz was once again the match-winner as England women’s academy fell to a 2-1 Twenty20 series defeat against South Africa’s senior side.
England women’s academy claimed a significant scalp by beating the senior South Africa side in the last of three 50-over games.

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