T he acronym Wags first entered popular consciousness in 2006 during England’s football World Cup adventures in Baden-Baden. Victoria Beckham, Cheryl Tweedy and the gang became a sneering tabloid obsession, their matching outfits, nightclub antics and hair extensions gleefully picked apart. Twenty years later, a very different set of Wags are causing a stir at Oswestry Cricket Club on the north Shropshire-Wales border. The thriving Women and Girls section (WaGs) has an astonishing 10 mother and daughter pairs who have played competitive cricket together, ranging from 12 years old to 67. The oldest member is the irrepressible Jools Payne, team manager and founding player. “We embrace the Wags moniker,” she says. “And we’re incredibly proud of our mother and daughter pairs, we may even explore if it is worthy of the Guinness Book of Records.” Jools’s oldest daughter, Naomi, is the driving force behind the success of the women’s section, which has been going only since 2018.…