How the Women's Power 50 Was Chosen

The Women's Power 50 is the product of a deliberate editorial process, developed and applied by cricexec's editorial team over several months.

Candidates were assessed against three core dimensions: impact — the tangible effect of their work on the business and governance of cricket; reach — the scale and span of that influence, whether across a market, a discipline, or the global game; and influence — their weight in the rooms where cricket's commercial and institutional decisions are actually made.

We considered women across the full breadth of the sport's off-field ecosystem: ownership, administration and governance, franchise and club leadership, league operations, commercial and media roles, player representation, and broadcast. Drawing from every corner of a global industry was a deliberate choice. Influence in cricket is not concentrated in one market or one kind of role, and a credible account of it cannot be either.

Candidates were identified through cricexec's own reporting and industry knowledge, supplemented by consultation across our network of contacts in the game. Each was evaluated on the substance of her current role and contribution — not on public profile, past reputation, or proximity to power. Some of the most influential figures on this list are among its least publicly known.

At the top, the list is ranked in order. The rest are presented alphabetically within categories that group related fields of the game.

Selection was made on editorial judgment alone. No ranking of this kind is definitive, and reasonable people will disagree with individual calls. That is the nature of the exercise. What we offer is a considered, independent, and clear-eyed account of the women shaping the business of cricket today.