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A talented transgender cricketer who plays for a women’s team has run into a row after scoring an average 124 runs this season.

Maxine Blythin – Kent’s first transgender player – is more than 6ft tall, self identifies as a woman and has scored four centuries already.

England and Wales Cricket Board rules state transgender players have to test their testosterone only if they are selected for England.

Fans and campaign group Fair Play For Women has called the policy unfair, suggesting she has an advantage over opponents.

The group tweeted: “The @ECB_cricket sneaked out a trans policy a few months ago allowing males who simply self-identity as women to play in female competitions.

“We called them out, lots of women complained and now they are ‘reviewing’ their policy.

“Letting males who self-ID as women play in women’s competitions is demonstrably unfair.

“The ECB knows males have a performance advantage over females.”

It adds: “This is [why] it lets women use lighter & smaller cricket balls & why boundaries are set closer.”

An ECB spokesman said: “Our position on transgender participation will be reviewed as part of our commitment to regularly review all governance policies.”

But he added that the board is “unlikely to make any unilateral changes” in the near future.