Venus. One of Lancashire's best kept secrets. But for how much longer?
08.07.26, 20:12 Updated 08.07.26, 20:12 4 Minute Read
Paul Edwards
“I’ll be very surprised if she’s not playing for England in however many years’ time – you heard it here first.”
It’s not often that a skipper offers a reporter a line like that but then not many captains are as savvy as Ellie Threlkeld. And not many 16-year-olds are as talented as Venus Weerappuli.
It has been a tough season so far for Lancashire’s women and Threlkeld was speaking after last Friday’s seven-wicket defeat to Durham at Banks Homes Riverside.
In that match, leg-spinner Weerappuli had begun with a wicket-maiden and had taken another wicket in her second over at a cost of two runs. Her third went for five runs before Hollie Armitage smacked a couple of boundaries in her final over.
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