ECB denies Yorkshire ‘punished for past sins’ with women’s county team snub

Club ‘disappointed’ and now risk losing personnel to rivalsHeather Knight says cricket will be more viable career optionRichard Gould, the chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board, has stressed that Yorkshire initially missing out on the revamp of the professional women’s game is not a case of the club being “punished for past sins”.From next year the current eight-team regional women’s system will switch to 15-strong full-time squads run directl