Lacuna Sports Presents: Women’s Cricket Networking Breakfast Panel
Weds 6th August 2025
9AM for 9.30AM START @ SOOO LDN, 245 Regent Street, W1B 2EN
RSVP – email enquiries@lacunasports.co.uk to attend
Sue Redfern MBE – International Cricket Umpire
Sue is a former international cricketer and a trailblazing professional umpire in both domestic and international cricket. She holds the historic distinction of being the first woman to both play in and officiate at ICC World Cups. In 2021, she became the first female umpire to stand in a men’s First-Class match in England and Wales.
Currently serving as a professional umpire with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), Sue continues to break new ground in the sport. She was awarded an MBE in 2018 for her outstanding services to women’s cricket, both in the UK and internationally.
Esther de Lange – ICC Development Officer, Europe
Esther’s passion for cricket began in the mid-1990s and quickly grew into a lifelong commitment to the sport. Inspired by watching the Dutch women’s team take on Denmark at her local ground, she set her sights on representing the Netherlands. That dream became a reality in 2005 when she made her debut for the national side. The former Dutch international earnt 125 caps and spent two years as captain, she retired in 2017 to focus on development work.
Esther is now responsible for growing the game across Europe through coaching and official education, school programmes, and high-performance support at the ICC. Esther has 15+ years of coaching experience across Europe and Australia, and is passionate about taking cricket to new audiences and enhancing on-field performance.
Sara Begg – Head of Social Impact at Cricket Without Boundaries, ICC Coach Developer
Sara is a cricket coach, educator, and researcher who began her career as a community cricket coach in inner London, where she saw firsthand the power of sport to drive social change and promote health. Now part of the Cricket Without Boundaries team, Sara leads design, implementation, and evaluation of global “Cricket Plus” projects that use the game as a vehicle for impact beyond the boundary.
Sara’s commitment to gender equity in sport underpins her current PhD research, which focuses on co-designing a cricket-based intervention with Nepali teenagers to challenge and transform harmful gender norms that restrict girls’ opportunities in both sport and society.
Alongside her academic work, Sara is a National Coach Developer (ECB) and Master Educator (ICC). She stays grounded in the grassroots game, coaching women and girls at her local club, the Thurstonland Thundercats.
Natasha Miles – International player for Hong Kong & Middlesex
Natasha (Tash) has been playing cricket since the age of 11 – a journey that began as a way to skip shopping trips with her mum and quickly grew into a lifelong passion for the sport. Inspired by her family’s love for the game, Natasha’s mother went on to establish the first women’s league in Hong Kong, paving the way for Natasha to represent the national side on their first international tour to Pakistan in 2006.
In pursuit of higher-level competition, Natasha then moved to the UK, where she joined the MCC Young Cricketers, represented the England Academy, played for Surrey for a brief stint, Lancashire Thunder during the Kia Super League and then Middlesex for the last 15 years. As captain at Middlesex, she led the team to victory in the 2018 T20 County Championship.
Since returning to the Hong Kong national team in 2021, Natasha has re-established herself as a vital figure in their international setup – and hasn’t looked back.
Sue Strachen – Former President Cricket Scotland
Sue Strachan has managed the Scotland Womens Cricket Team in tournaments since 2017. She was also the first female elected President of Cricket Scotland. Sue is passionate about equality and opening up opportunity for everyone to play sport. Sue has worked hard within cricket to advocate for both womens’ cricket and associate nation cricket to receive the funding and support in order to fulfil their massive potential. Personally she plays multiple sports including squash at International Masters Level. Helping others to find joy in sport is what drives much of the work that she does.
Lacuna Sports at SOOO LDN
245 Regent Street, London
