Anya Shrubsole

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Test Match Special · History made at Hundred Auction · 12 Mar 2026 podcast

I made my England debut at Shenley, probably with about 20 people there and probably 15 of them were my family.

So to then be here, we'd have been lottery funded then, to call a semi-professional probably would have been...

I definitely think so.

I think that that kind of first competition and maybe it got a bit of a kind of COVID boost.

People were allowed out and actually, especially for the women, it was almost there weren't many positives of COVID, but it wasn't initially planned to be kind of in the format that it now is.

So I think that was kind of a bit of a happy accident.

And I think for both the men and women, particularly the women,

it's just kind of kept growing and growing and growing and it's such an amazing competition I didn't miss a lot when I retired I did miss the 100 a little bit admittedly only for about a game but it's a great competition to play in and you see this here today and see where it's come and that's really incredible

It definitely feels like it.

I definitely feel like the competition has done more for women's cricket, definitely in this country, possibly in the world, than it probably has for the men's.

And like you say, I think that's incredible.

And hopefully that giant just continues to grow.

I think as part of a bigger picture, we obviously retained three batters, three out-and-out batters, so it was pretty obvious that we needed some bowling.

Izzy has got so much upside.

She whacks it down the order, so that's really helpful.

And she's someone who can really get a team going.

I think she's young, she's exciting.

She's had a difficult time, but I think we saw last year that she'd really started to come through that.

So we're excited for this competition, but you obviously think...

next year the year after then retentions and all of that sort of stuff having good English talent is really important.

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