Lancashire's women will be better for this experience - Edwards
25.05.26, 14:53 Updated 25.05.26, 14:54 4 Minute Read
Paul Edwards
“This is what can happen,” said Peter Moores. “This is part of it.” We were standing on the away team’s balcony at Lord’s on September 7, 2012. Lancashire’s men had just lost to Middlesex by 109 runs and had been relegated to the second division of the County Championship.
Such an indignity has been visited upon the Red Rose with relative frequency this century but this particular relegation is still unique. That is because almost 12 months previously, Moores, as Lancashire’s head coach, had been celebrating with his team on the outfield at Taunton after Lancashire had won their first County Championship for 77 years.
In 2011, Moores’s players had won 10 of their first-class 16 games; in 2012, they had managed just the one. Many of the players that had carried all before them during one season were struggling in the next. “This is what can happen. This is part of it, too.”
I’ve thought of those words quite frequently when I’ve been watching Lancashire’s women’s team this season. Last summer, they won the Vitality County T20 Cup and Metro Bank One-Day Cup; only the Blast eluded them. By the end of today’s game against The Blaze, they had lost eight of their 10 competitive matches this season.
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