For many years, the most famous female involvement in Peruvian cricket had been when Louise Hildebrand, sister of then captain Harry Hildebrand, caught Simon Walter when he was on 49, in February, 2005!

However, 2008 saw the first girls cricket game held between British schools, Markham College and San Silvestre (Girls School). This has been followed by regular inter-school girls games between Markham and Hiram Bingham School, who currently both run a girls cricket development programme.

Then, in 2010, Cricket Peru was delighted to include 4 young women in the Twenty20 Second Division Championship. We also welcomed Juliet Solomon, from Trinidad but now based in Lima, as Cricket Peru’s official scorer, which we are very pleased about. To follow her musings on life in Lima, have a look at her excellent blog: http://peloinformal-livefromlima.blogspot.com.  

Inspired by these developments, we hope to start a women’s cricket programme in Lima in the near future.