Wicketkeeper Ailsa Lister (centre) is without doubt one of the 9 gamers awarded a pro-deal
9 of Scotland’s girls cricketers have been issued with skilled contracts for the 2023-2024 season.
In November, Cricket Scotland revealed they might introduce salaries to the ladies’s squad for the primary time, calling it a “watershed second”.
The choice course of was undertaken by a panel throughout February and March and the gamers are Abbi Aitken-Drummond, Loran Jack, Megan McColl, Priyanaz Chatterji, Katherine Fraser, Ailsa Lister, Orla Montgomery, Hannah Rainey and Ellen Watson.
“I am completely delighted that 9 of our greatest girls’s gamers have agreed to be the primary to signal with Cricket Scotland,” mentioned interim head of efficiency Toby Bailey.
“Given the speedy development of ladies’s cricket the world over, promotion and funding within the girls’s recreation in Scotland is now a cornerstone of the technique for the organisation, and right now’s information is a giant step on the street to making sure that cricket in Scotland is honest and inclusive for all.
“Our new set-up will allow these gamers from the ladies’s squad who’ve signed to dedicate extra time to coaching and apply, and we consider it is a main transfer in direction of placing the ladies’s recreation onto a completely skilled footing.”
In the meantime, the 14 male gamers on pro-contracts for this season are Richie Berrington, Matthew Cross, Ally Evans, Chris Greaves, Jack Jarvis, Michael Leask, Chris McBride, Brandon McMullen, George Munsey, Liam Naylor, Safyaan Sharif, Chris Sole, Hamza Tahir and Mark Watt.
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