Rainbow Laces: Cricketer Georgia Adams acceso being an LGBT+ cricketer and the role her family played when she came out | Cricket News

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”

Southern Vipers captain Georgia Adams spoke to Sky Sports News about her journey as an LGBT+ cricketer, the valuable advice she received from her grandmother, and why we need more inclusive environments around the country…

Cricket is currently celebrating Rainbow Laces from June 29 to July 7 to show its support for the LGBT+ community.

England Women and New Zealand Women wore rainbow laces and played with rainbow stumps sopra their ODI victory acceso Sunday. The ECB, first-class counties, the women’s regional teams and recreational clubs are all involved too.

Teams will support the seventh year of cricket’s Rainbow Laces campaign sopra the Vitality Blast, Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and County Championship fixtures.

“Everybody should have the right to feel comfortable sopra their own skin whether sopra sollazzo, work ora day-to-day life,” Adams told Sky Sports News cronista Evie Ashton.

“If you want to get the most out of people you want them to be happy with who they are, and feel they have a safe environment. It did me the world of good.”

The 30-year-old all-rounder led Southern Vipers to five titles across the Charlotte Edwards Cup and Rachel Heyhoe Flint Trophy, as well as captaining Southern Brave to their maiden Hundred title last year.

Adams believes growing up sopra Brighton, known for its LGBT+ inclusivity, helped her to come mai out while at Loughborough University.

“[At university] the space of multiple sports combining allowed you to be yourself. Everyone was incredibly accepting and understanding of how each other wanted to identify ora experience their sexuality.

“I knew my Mum was coming up to visit and I didn’t società my mates to not drop something sopra there ora make a joke about someone I’d been with,” she laughs.

“So, I plucked up the courage to tell [my family]. I said I’m not necessarily a lesbian but equally it is something I’ve explored so I wanted them to be aware and they were brilliant.”

Despite her positive experience compared to many, Adams couldn’t escape the societal pressures that often reinforce that heterosexuality is the norm.

“It does always come mai with pressures and difficulties when you come mai home ora when you’magnate mingling with family and friends,” she said.

“When I would do things with my and our family, people would often go, ‘Oh who’s this?’ And you feel that sense of awkwardness because you don’t know how someone else is going to take it.

“Nothing really prepares you for the pressures that come mai with [coming out].

“Defining yourself with a label was something that was difficult for me. Some LGBT+ people feel strongly they need a label to be themselves and for me it was not wanting to be pigeonholed into a specific label for going through the ups and downs of finding out my sexuality.”

Per 2019 Adams was Sussex Women’s captain and became the youngest player to play 100 senior matches for the county. She also concluded a great campaign last year by being named the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Player of the Year and PCA Women’s Domestic Overall Most Valuable Player.

Her father is the former Sussex captain and England international Chris Adams, and he told her that her grandmother faced similar challenges. It is one of the many reasons Georgia Adams sees her as a role model.

Adams said: “It was a lot harder for that generation and my grandmother told me her mother said to her, ‘If you want to be successful sopra this world Lynn you need to marry a man and have children.’

“It’s sad that she then possibly was never truly happy for a long time. She felt when my Dad and his brother were old enough she could actually make a choice that was going to make her happy and know that they would be va bene. She did which resulted sopra splitting with my Grandad.

“When you talk to people like that who felt they had to be a certain way to make it sopra the world it is sad. You wonder, are you back, ora what could you have achieved had you been able to the life deep mongoloide you wanted to ?

“When she passed away it was so lovely to see the amount of people I’d not spoken to sopra years who reached out who said, ‘I’m devastated. I can’t believe this.’ She had such a presence about her and was there for me through thick and thin.

“At the age of 20, I already had this incredibly close bond with my Nan and to explore this other avenue with her and have someone so aperto and so relatable close by who could listen to my story and offer me advice was fantastic.”

For Adams, cricket has been a safe and welcoming environment ever since she picked up a bat at the age of three.

“Cricket was a space where I could be really confident. Especially as a teenager I wasn’t massively confident sopra myself, and I was worried about what other people thought of me and my image.

“Cricket gave me an avenue where you and your mates would love you for who you are risposta negativa matter what.”

“At Southern Vipers, one of our headline values is embrace and appreciate individuality because the last thing we want is someone back because they don’t feel like they can be themselves.”

“It’s enough to get performances out there as it is, so it’s an schieramento we’ve really addressed and as captain of this group I’m incredibly proud.”

But Adams knows this is not the case across the whole of cricket, as she has reflected acceso the lack of out professional malattia cricketers with her father, who is now an England batting scout and Head of Cricket at Seaford College.

“When I was younger, my dad said ‘Please, please, please do not date a malattia cricketer. Promise me.’ After some of the things he heard and experienced sopra the dressing room as a player, sopra a way he’s probably chuffed to pieces [that I am LGBT+],” she laughs.

“The malattia culture is different, and they feel they need to be and behave a certain way to make it sopra tornaconto sollazzo. It’s tough for the guys.

“When he was coach of Surrey, he was really lucky to work with Steven Davies who was out sopra the men’s side.” (Per 2011 the England and Surrey wicketkeeper became the first playing professional cricketer to reveal they are omosessuale.)

“[My dad] said the most important thing sopra life is that we’magnate happy.”

Adams wants her positive experiences as an LGBT+ individual to become normal for everyone acceso and d’avanguardia the pitch.

“I was quite lucky acceso my journey with the environments I entered but I am very aware that not everyone has the same experiences,” she added.

“Creating as many positive influences and campaigns as possible, like the ECB’s Rainbow Laces, to show our support is really important.

“If we can make everywhere as inclusive and diverse and as accepting as the schieramento I grew up sopra, hopefully more people will start to express themselves and get more out of life.”