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Laura MacLeod: Charlotte Edwards appointment "biggest change" for inaugural tier-one season

NICK FRIEND: Edwards' insistence that England-contracted players represent their counties to earn their places at national level will have a significant impact in the opening weeks of the domestic season

Tier two 2025 preview: Derbyshire to Leicestershire

In part one, The Cricketer looks at how the first five counties in the second tier of the revamped women's domestic cricket structure are shaping up ahead of the new season

Knowing Murali, studying medicine and juggling tier two: Meet April Herathge, Leicestershire's ambitious leg-spinner

NICK FRIEND – INTERVIEW: Herathge, who combines a GP placement and part-time barista work with her cricket, has set her sights on a professional contract in tier one

Melissa Story: BBC commentator, trainee solicitor, podcast host, Gloucestershire seamer

NICK FRIEND – INTERVIEW: When the inaugural tier-two women's season begins later this week, Story will be one of its most recognisable faces and busiest people, juggling a training contract and broadcast work with the stresses of county cricket

Australia A makes strong start to four-day match despite Issy Wong's four wickets

The Warwickshire seamer took 4 for 57 on the opening day of England's four-day match against Australia A to help keep the hosts, who made 317 for 7, thanks to 77 from Rachel Trenaman, at bay

Academy graduate re-joins Kent on tier-two loan

Megan Struge will be available for Kent on a match-by-match basis this season after signing on loan from Hampshire

Ellyse Perry secures county deal for 2025

The Australia allrounder, part of the Ashes squad that whitewashed England, is bound for the T20 Blast and One-Day Cup this summer

Kirstie Gordon to return home from England A tour with back injury

Gordon had been part of the squad to face Australia A in a four-day match, beginning on April 12

Bears Women sign Yorkshire batter on tier-one loan

Kalis will remain eligible for her parent club in the Women's T20 County Cup, where players will only able to represent one county before becoming cup-tied

Middlesex name Scotland international as women's captain

Saskia Horley has been representing the county since 2022 and becomes the club's first skipper of the Project Darwin era

Hampshire name successor to Charlotte Edwards as women's head coach

A stalwart of Essex for two decades through the 1980s and 1990s, Paul Prichard scored more than 23,000 runs for the county across formats

Durham to sign Suzie Bates as tier-one overseas player

GEORGE DOBELL - EXCLUSIVE: Bates, a vastly experienced allrounder, was part of the New Zealand team that won the T20 World Cup in October

Lancashire secure major coup with signing of Australia star

Alana King, who terrorised England through the winter Women's Ashes series, is set to join Lancashire for the majority of their T20 Blast campaign, as well as two 50-over matches in late July

Danni Wyatt-Hodge: If you don't meet Charlotte Edwards' standards, you'll be out the door

NICK FRIEND – INTERVIEW: The batter, who has represented her country on 292 occasions, has praised Edwards' appointment as England's new head coach and spoke in glowing terms of Heather Knight after her removal as captain