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Lancashire's players and backroom staff celebrate as they win the Metro Bank One-Day Cup at Hampshire last September Dan Adams/Lancashire Cricket
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Queens of One-Day Cricket, Daniel Gidney Part 2: CEO wants golden period

“This team has got to own the fact that they’re very good and have had success."

01.03.26, 00:04 Updated 01.03.26, 00:06 5 Minute Read

Graham Hardcastle

Graham Hardcastle

Daniel Gidney wants Lancashire’s women to embrace the challenge of being the hunted as they bid to kick on from their double triumph last summer.

The Red Rose chief executive has admitted his immense pride in the team and believes they could be set for a golden period akin to what the county’s men achieved in the 1980s and 1990s when they were tagged as the Kings of One-Day Cricket.

Emirates Old Trafford will this summer host Finals Day in the Vitality County T20 Cup on Saturday August 29, something Gidney pushed for after Ellie Threlkeld and co won that competition last May.

“I wanted that,” he said. “At the end of the day, we’re the holders of that competition.

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