Cat and Honor Black started playing cricket aged six at Barnes Cricket Club in London - Honor the only girl among around 30 boys, with even the coach reportedly not noticing she was on the squad until she took her first wicket. After the family moved to West Sussex, the girls' school offered no cricket for girls; they made do with rounders and were only allowed to bowl, not bat, in the boys' nets at break, before eventually winning a dedicated girls' team after Cat topped the school's bowling averages. Fed up with hand-me-down and ill-fitting boys' kit, the sisters founded Maiden in 2024 to design cricket clothing and equipment specifically for women and girls.
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