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The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has appointed former England captain Clare Connor as Managing Director of Women’s Cricket.
The move is part of the ECB’s new game-wide strategy for 2020-24, Inspiring Generations, which is hoped to shape the game in England and Wales and has been in development over the last 12-months.
Tom Harrison, ECB Chief Executive Officer, said: “The women’s and girls’ game is one of our six core priorities and, given the strong and consistent growth of the women’s game and the opportunities we have created, Clare will now take responsibility from grassroots through to the England team as Managing Director, Women’s Cricket.
In further senior recruitment news at the ECB, David Mahoney has been named as its new Chief Operating Officer. Mahoney moves from his role as Chief Strategy Officer, having overseen the development of the new ECB strategy.
Five-time Paralympian Ellie Simmonds has been appointed to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Board.
Welcomed by Chair of the Board, John Crabtree, Simmonds joins Nick Timothy, Derrick Anderson and Lyndsey Jackson in being appointed to the Board by Jeremy Wright, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
The four additions join the existing ten members on the board and will serve until 2023. The Board will be tasked with supporting and overseeing the strategic direction of the Organising Committee in delivering the Commonwealth Games for athletes, spectators, host city residents and the country.
Premier League side Southampton Football Club has announced a deal with Bridgehead Software’s Independent Clinical Archive, HealthStore.
The partnership with the UK-based data and storage management specialists will help assist the long-term consolidation, protection and secure sharing of the club’s players’ medical images, such as ultrasounds and MRIs.
HealthStore will provide a central repository for all players’ medical images, which will enable the club’s medical staff and authorised hospital specialists to access and view data securely, when and where they need to.
In turn, this will support the club’s clinicians in assessing injuries, collaborating on player rehabilitation and developing education and injury prevention strategies.
British Wheelchair Basketball has announced that four games from Basketball’s Women’s League First Division will be live streamed via BBC Sport Online from February 2019.
Last year saw the Women’s League final delivered via BBC, as part of the sports National Championship coverage.
This season, First Division games from the second round on Sunday 3rd February, as well as the Division’s medal games in the final round on Saturday 20th April, will be made available via BBC Sport Online, in a historic first for the league.
Jo Richards, British Wheelchair Basketball’s Participation Director, said: “These games will offer viewers wishing to see fast paced and dramatic team sport the opportunity to watch some of this nation’s best female wheelchair basketball players in action.”
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