Episode 206: Driving Home for Christmas ft Mabel Reid

It’s our final episode of the year and of course time for some Christmas chat. As well as our bumper review of 2025 Women’s Cricket through our eyes, we’re joined by Northants’ Mabel Reid to speak about her career so far, time at Loughborough University as well sharing her very insightful experiences after being diagnosed with autism and how cricket has been an accommodating space.We will be back in 2026 when we celebrate our 5th birthday! We want to take the opportunity to say a huge thankyou to anyone that has listened or engaged over the last year, we appreciate the support so much and always enjoy hearing from our listeners

You'll never guess who is back...or maybe you will because who needs a transparent hiring process! Jon Lewis has been appointed Head Coach of London Spirit and he's back working with Heather Knight again but is there a conflict of interest for Knight? We also discuss Stephen Parry's new role at Essex as well as the staff he's got on board. We'll be back next week but in the meantime, our Instagram & TikTok is @noughtiechildpodcast and our Bluesky is @00Child Podcast so drop us a follow to stay up to date!

This week we are joined by Worcestershire’s Bryony Gillgrass who is also part of the England U19 set up. We spoke all about her journey so far, a break through summer and the busy winter.We'll be back next week but in the meantime, our Instagram & TikTok is @noughtiechildpodcast and our Bluesky is @00Child Podcast so drop us a follow to stay up to date!

We're already dreaming about next summer as the domestic fixtures came out this week. Unfortunately there are some clashes that we're less keen on and some slightly odd choices of grounds (what's new!) We also speak about the WPL auction as well as the on going Emerging Nations Trophy in Thailand. We'll be back next week but in the meantime, our Instagram & TikTok is @noughtiechildpodcast and our Bluesky is @00Child Podcast so drop us a follow to stay up to date!

We are back from our little break and despite snow falling in England, there’s some important cricket to discuss across the world from the WBBL to the new Emerging Nations Trophy in Thailand.We'll be back next week but in the meantime, our Instagram & TikTok is @noughtiechildpodcast and our Bluesky is @00Child Podcast so drop us a follow to stay up to date!

India are World Cup Champions beating South Africa and lifting the trophy on home soil. We record seconds after Harmanpreet Kaur took the winning catch to reflect on the final and the tournament as a whole.

Wow! South Africa and India are in the World Cup final and Australia can't win another ICC tournament. We also are joined by Italy & Northants cricketer Lenny Sims to speak about her historical ties to cricket, representing Italy and life in Tier 2. We'll be back next week but in the meantime, our Instagram & TikTok is @noughtiechildpodcast and our Bluesky is @00Child Podcast so drop us a follow to stay up to date!

It's our 200th episode! I don't think we quite believe we've made it this far but thanks for listening and supporting us at any point over the last almost five years. We reflect on some of our favourite episodes so far and also reflect on the early days. We'll be back next week but in the meantime, our Instagram & TikTok is @noughtiechildpodcast and our Bluesky is @00Child Podcast so drop us a follow to stay up to date!

Lancashire's Grace Johnson joins us this week and shares how her summer as been from the highs in T20s to the lows of rehab and dealing with a stress fracture. We also chat about what it means to represent the Red Rose and how she accidently started playing cricket. The World Cup continues and we mention the two games that happened over those days and what we expect moving forward. We'll be back next week but in the meantime, our Instagram & TikTok is @noughtiechildpodcast and our Bluesky is @00Child Podcast so drop us a follow to stay up to date!

It's been a wobbly World Cup so far with every team experiencing some collapses and nervy moments. We discuss everything that's happened in the past week over in India and Sri Lanka as well as some awards news in domestic cricket. We'll be back next week but in the meantime, our Instagram & TikTok is @noughtiechildpodcast and our Bluesky is @00Child Podcast so drop us a follow to stay up to date!