Kathryn Leng was set to create a piece of cricketing history today.
She has been included in the Bradford/Leeds Universities Centre of Cricket Excellence team for their two-day match with Loughborough at Park Avenue.
The England women's international is the first woman to play in once of the new Centre of Excellence sides. And team coach Kevin Sharp believes she may also be creating another first.
He said: "I think that this is probably the highest level of cricket at which a woman has ever played.
"We have every confidence that Kathryn can do well.
"She is an extremely able player and deserves her chance to show her cricketing skills."
Leng, who first shot to cricketing prominence which she played for Yorkshire Bank in the Bradford League as a teenager.
Since then she has gone on to become one of the country's leading women players and was selected to be among the first intake of students at the Bradford/Leeds Universities Centre of Cricket Excellence.
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