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Horley's cricket journey - Q&A with the Middlesex Women's captain

Introduce yourself. Middlesex skipper Saskia Horley sits down with Up The Middle to talk about inheriting her love of the game from dad, learning to play forward and life beyond the professional game.

18.03.26, 08:30 Updated 17.03.26, 17:32 5 Minute Read

Jon Batham

Jon Batham

Up The Middle caught up with women’s skipper, Australian-born, Scotland international Saskia Horley for a Q & A about her journey in cricket.

Q: Firstly Saskia, where does your love of cricket come from?

SH: I started watching my dad play, like most people really. He didn’t play at a super-high level. It was club cricket with a bunch of his mates, many of whom had young children around that time, so a lot of us went down and played on the boundary while the match was going on.

And I played in the backyard like most Aussies do around Christmastime in the summer.

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