Delivering for your nation at a World Cup brings heightened pressure, and doing so at a home tournament takes the expectation up to a whole new level. Red Roses prop Maud Muir did just that last September, winning a home Rugby World Cup with England in front of a record women's rugby crowd of 81,885.

England cricket all-rounder Freya Kemp, gearing up for this summer's home T20 World Cup, sought advice from Muir, surprising the prop. When asked via a video message what her best piece of advice would be, Muir replied:

Embrace it. Embrace having so many home fans, and be able to have an escape. You are so familiar with where you are that you can go home and relax a bit more.

Muir was a key player for John Mitchell's side throughout the World Cup with her destructive ball-carrying and scrummaging. With England on course for an eighth straight Six Nations title and having been part of Gloucester-Hartpury's three consecutive Premiership Women's Rugby crowns, Muir knows a thing or two about winning.

However, her connection to cricket is significant. The 24-year-old Muir was a keen cricketer in her youth before establishing herself as one of the best front rows in the world. Rugby in the winter and cricket in the summer structured Muir’s sporting year.

I eventually had to pick between the two and unfortunately I was not as talented at cricket,

Muir described her family’s passion for cricket:

We were a cricket family. My brother still plays and my dad was part of the Redbacks Cricket Club, which we would go to every summer with family and friends and play cricket. I fielded and didn't really bat or bowl. I would sometimes wicket-keep. I was throwing myself around the cricket field.