Previously Male-Dominated Sports Increasingly Open to Girls

By Sally Jones. Published on Independent Education Today.

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...For BBC cricket commentator and rackets convert, Isabelle Duncan, author of a history of women’s cricket, Skirting the Boundary, moving to the sixth form at Charterhouse in 1990 was a revelation. She discovered a passion for cricket, later becoming an influential player and coach but also tried rackets at the school’s evening club then took up real tennis at Lord’s on achieving her coveted MCC membership.

“As a sporty girl, arriving at Charterhouse was like all my Christmases coming at once,” she recalled. “I loved trying every game going and, of course, I’ve ultimately made my career in cricket. Now I adore playing rackets and real tennis at Queen’s and travelling to tournaments in-between commentating duties. The schools like Clifton and Wellington plus Noel Brett at Malvern are welcoming talented sportswomen into these games, their own pupils and others via evening clubs while Mark Briers has some great teenage prospects at Cheltenham who are already threatening the old guard.”