Lauren Winfield-Hill has been doing some detective work
Having England players available for the first round of the Tier One summer made an immense difference to the standard of competition this week.
When you have those players available, all the teams get closer together and there’s less disparity between the top teams and the bottom.
The standard goes up, the interest goes up and the support goes up too. Just using the Surrey v Somerset result as an example, I don’t think Somerset have always competed in the past, but you put Heather Knight in there and they trumped one of the stronger ...
