at lords that starts this thursday. surrey batsman ollie pope looks set to make his england debut coming in for dawid malan who was dropped. two years ago, pope was still playing for his school side but now hopes to emulate the likes of alastair cook in the senior side. from the people have spoken to they have given me the confidence and i have given me the confidence and i have the confidence in my own game to ta ke have the confidence in my own game to take the next step. obviously you hear stories of some of the greats of the game and people who made their debut at age 20. so it is not like it has not been done before. but hopefully i will take my chance. i feel confident but hopefully i will take my chance. ifeel confident in my but hopefully i will take my chance. i feel confident in my game and ready for the next step. there's a t20 double header at old trafford today. lancashire lightning are just getting started against durham jets and earlier in the women's super...

wiltshire is mum to 18 month old alexa—rose and returned to playing just weeks after giving birth. i was playing for yeovil at the time and living in hertfordshire so it was a very long journey. so notjust training but the journey took up a lot of my time and i was away for quite a big part of the day and then obviously i would come back and she was asleep so i did feel i was missing out on those days that i was training. so that was hard. missing out on those days that i was training. 50 that was hard. from within training. so that was hard. from within the sport as well i guess you need clubs and fellow athletes to be very understanding of your situation and you still want to further your career, obviously motherhood important as well. to be honest it is not very common in women's football. there are a few of us with babies that comeback but a lot also