Lacuna Sports: Cricket teamwear just for women and girls

While Lacuna Sports provides cricket teamwear exclusively for women and girls, it’s much more than that. True, this is thoughtful cricket clothing by women for women with emphasis on body type, performance and comfort.

In of itself, that’s a game-changer. Founder Leigh Burns began Lacuna Sports to address the lack of consideration for the female figure after struggling to find options that fitted her teen daughter.

Lacuna Sports: Bridging the gap

However, in this content partnership, we’ll also be sharing Lacuna’s points of difference, examples from clubs they’ve helped and how to get a bespoke quote for your women and girls’ teams.

Bespoke designs, not adaptation

Instead of ill-fitting cricket teamwear adapted from men’s styles, Lacuna Sports offer an alternative.

This is clothing for females of all sizes, shapes, ages and playing abilities. It has been tested by women and girls to ensure the ranges stretch and move while playing the game, look the part and by extension, give that confidence to perform.

Lacuna Sports have the Pace collection for those who prefer a slimmer fit. The Pace top has a dipped hem to be flattering, both tucked in or not and the trousers offer a narrower hip, yet room for thigh pads.

Their Spin range is a more relaxed fit. The top has a longer hem to make sure the top doesn’t ride up during cricket and the trousers are roomier through the hips and thighs.

Further design considerations include elasticated waistband and drawstrings on trousers with concealed side pockets, while their Lacuna hoodie has thumb holes and overlapped neck closure to keep snug. Again, there are choices available within ranges to ensure it’s not a one-size-fits-all approach.

All teamwear styles come in UK 4-22 so everyone can find their fit.

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Recycled polyester and reducing waste

Lacuna Sports women and girls cricket clothing is made with recycled polyester from certified European mills. They can work with cricket clubs to upcycle your old cricket kit too and reduce potential waste.

While the ability to print in any colour giving clubs unlimited choice is eye-catching, so too is the sublimation as standard where logos are embedded in the garment. Colours remain crisp for years and showcases sponsors to their very best.

Every team’s design is created with the club by Lacuna’s design team so no one team kit ever looks like anyone else’s.

Feedback: Gunnersbury Women’s Cricket Club

Fiona Barbour-Smith’s daughter Molly plays for Gunnersbury and Scotland Under-19s while Fiona is the club’s Safeguarding Officer. I caught up with Fiona to talk about the differences in teamwear requirements for women and girls, as well as the Lacuna X-factor.

With Gunnersbury Women’s Cricket Club celebrating their centenary in 2025, it was a chance for a new look, led by Fiona. They worked with Lacuna Sports to update the badge to reference its origins in 1925 and the old oak tree in Gunnersbury Park.

Incorporated into the side panels of the new Gunnersbury shirt are the names of past players as a nod to the trailblazers. With four England captains in Cecilia Robinson, Mary Duggan, Molly Hide and Charlotte Edwards as well as 93-year-old Anne Sanders who played 11 Tests for England, Gunnersbury has a rich heritage to call upon.

What is it about Lacuna Sports that really stood out? Fiona said:

“For women and girls, it fits. It’s made to fit women’s physiques. They’ve got different cuts of trousers and tops. Some people like skinny fit, some a bit more curvy but the trousers fit women’s hips.”

A cut above the rest?

Fiona reckoned: “It’s the cut being for women but also the fabrics and designs. They’re willing to be a bit more bespoke about what they do. I think that of all the kits that Molly has had along the way through the various iterations of club, county and pathways, it’s definitely the nicest.”

Inclusive sizing

Gunnerbury’s clothing size requirements reflects their popularity as a women and girls cricket club and they needed teamwear to cater for that diversity. Lacuna Sports were able to offer size 6 for small girls up to size 22:

“I think the ladies at the higher end of the sizing chart like the fact that it’s still women’s kit because otherwise they’re having to get quite large men’s sizes. A larger woman has a different physique to a larger man.”

Mill Hill Finches design workshop

In 2024, Anisha Dissanayake set up a girls section at Finchley Cricket Club and then they went into partnership with Mill Hill Cricket Club to become Mill Hill Finches.

The fledgling girls team held their own shirt design workshop with Lacuna Sports at The Middlesex Indoor Cricket School. The idea being to ensure players were fully involved and felt like it was properly their shirt.

Anisha said: “We did have a lot of bright pinks and bright yellows for a club whose colours are maroon and green! You want to invest in a shirt provider that’s going to give you good quality and I couldn’t have asked for better from Lacuna. They’re pretty incredible.”

It’s a good example of not just providing cricket clothing but how Lacuna Sports went the extra mile to make the Mill Hill Finches part of the teamwear process.

Girls cricket at Marlborough

The way Marlborough Cricket Club has developed girls cricket is a marvel and down to the drive of Hugh Norris, the Chair of this club on the edge of Savernake Forest in Wiltshire. It was borne from a desire to ensure his daughter had somewhere to play and momentum has just snowballed.

When it came to choosing a supplier, Hugh was already impressed by Lacuna Sports and wanted the girls to feel included in the decision-making:

“It was really important to me to send a message to the girls that this is their club, their team, their kit.”

Like Mill Hill Finches, cue mock-ups, artwork, ideas and at a winter training session, the shortlisted designs were revealed: “They loved it. You could see them all negotiating. They sat around in a circle pointing at the different pictures and thought: This is great!”

Marlborough have a squad of about 18 girls now who transitioned from softball training to a league, while there is now a women’s side (above) who played their first game last season. For their first-ever Marlborough girls kit, Hugh ran the Robin Hood Half Marathon, beating the time he first achieved 25 years ago, to raise funds.

The shirt includes the local Parade Cinema Kids Club on the front and promotes Charlie’s Charity on the sleeve too.

What these stories tell us is that the importance of club cricket teamwear goes beyond the thrill of a new shirt, as Fiona at Gunnersbury WCC put it best: “It’s really important to have exactly what you want and everyone in the club to feel invested.”

Contact Lacuna Sports

If you’re a cricket club with a women and girls’ section or female teams then Lacuna Sports could be the ideal fit. You can contact [email protected] or visit the website at https://lacunasports.co.uk.

This is the latest Lacuna Sports catalogue (available to download) while their Lacuna Sports Instagram feed shows teams, interviews, events and collaborations.

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