Former England captains Heather Knight and Michael Vaughan launched a new, national state school cricket competition aimed at driving state school participation at Lord’s on Thursday.
The Barclays Knight-Stokes Cup, named after two of England’s greatest state-educated cricketers, aims to inspire state schools to develop under-15 girls’ and boys’ teams and to drive state school participation in cricket.
The new T20 format competition will see both a girls’ and boys’ final hosted on the main ground at Lord’s from 2026. All state schools are invited to enter the competition now at lords.org/kni...
