Jo Currie

Feb 11, 2025 | aol.com | Jo Currie

"Don't do anything until I get back!"Mel Jones was in the middle of a television commentary, but she was also in the middle of masterminding an escape from the Taliban. The former Australia cricketer was one of the three women who organised and funded ways for the Afghanistan women's cricket team to flee their country in 2021 in what she said felt at times like "a Jason Bourne movie".

Feb 11, 2025 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Jo Currie

The Afghan women's team who will not be silenced"Don't do anything until I get back!"Mel Jones was in the middle of a television commentary, but she was also in the middle of masterminding an escape from the Taliban. The former Australia cricketer was one of the three women who organised and funded ways for the Afghanistan women's cricket team to flee their country in 2021 in what she said felt at times like "a Jason Bourne movie".

Feb 11, 2025 | bbc.com | Jo Currie

Thousands of miles away, Mel Jones was sitting in quarantine in an Australian hotel during the Covid-19 pandemic when she received a message from an Indian journalist asking whether she had heard about the Afghan cricket team's situation. The players had looked to the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) for assistance after the Taliban took over but received none. On their own, they were terrified under the rule of the hardline Islamist group.

Aug 1, 2024 | bbc.com | Jo Currie

Michele Kang, the owner of three football clubs including the London City Lionesses, has announced a $50m (£39.2m) global investment in improving the health of elite female athletes. Kang, who also owns eight-time women's European champions Lyon in France and Washington Spirit in the US, said she hopes the venture will mark "a new era for female athletic potential" and "drive lasting change".

Jul 3, 2024 | bbc.com | Jo Currie

Roper suffered the miscarriage at the nine-week point of her pregnancy and found it hard to process the speed with which everything had happened. “I'd actually been for a scan that day. It was all fine and then that night, I had stomach cramps and then there was bleeding,” she explains. “You then suddenly realise, this isn't normal. “That morning, everything was fine, there was a heartbeat and then in just the click of your fingers, we no longer had a baby growing.