Queens Of One-Day Cricket, Paul Shaw Part 1: Laying foundations
14.02.26, 21:27 Updated 26.02.26, 16:01 5 Minute Read
Graham Hardcastle
As Lancashire’s glorious double success was sealed in Southampton last September, the Red Rose beating Hampshire in a high-scoring Metro Bank One-Day Cup final, there was someone sat “glued” to their TV screen in Barnsley as proud as punch. Paul Shaw. The man who was central to laying the foundations.
In this tale of triumph, which also includes the early-season Vitality County T20 Cup, there are a whole host of key figures. And we have chatted to a handful of them in this multi-part series entitled The Queens of One-Day Cricket, which will be published in the coming weeks ahead of the new summer.
While Shaw wasn’t front and centre at the Utilita Bowl as the celebrations were in full swing, he certainly was when it came to setting the ball rolling a few years earlier.
A former England head coach who helped the ECB transition their women’s set-up to a full-time professional, central contract model in 2014, Shaw was asked to do similar at Emirates Old Trafford.
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