Women and Girls' Cricket
The Women and Girl’s section of the ECCB are looking
forward to a busy 2008 season. After a recent regional fixture
setting meeting the U13 side have 10 competitive matches,
the u15’s 10 matches and the U17’s 12 matches.
The women's side have 8 matches, 3 of which are to be played
at the County Championships Festival.
Each age group also has a three day festival at locations
around the country.
The Essex Super Fours Festival
2008
The Under 11 and Under 13 Girls congregated at Wickford
Cricket Club on Monday 5 May for the fourth annual Essex
Super Fours Festival.
The 32 Girls were split up into 4 teams to play in league
based tournament; all teams playing each other.
The level of cricket was excellent all day and all the matches
were closely fought. All members of Team C gave a superb
bowling performance to come out overall winners (3 wins
out of 3 matches). The Under 11's - Chloe, Sarah and Verity
deserve a special mention here. The consistency of the other
teams was illustrated by the final scores of one win each.
The many highlights of the day included the big hitting
Under 13 opening bats; Cordelia and Paige, and also watching
the Under 11 wicketkeeper Rebecca nearly standing up to
the stumps to Cordelia, the Under 13 opening bowler!!
EWCA Chair, Matt Hyam, said that "the standard of the
cricket played at this festival has got better year on year.
The future looks bright for Essex with lots of talented
players in all the age group teams."
The teams were coached and managed on the day by Chloe Elliot
and Hannah Courtnell, along with the Essex Women and Girls
Level 3 Coaches.
We’d like to thank everyone who assisted and took
part in the event.
U11’s
Wins over two boys club teams
The U-11 Girls have played two warm up matches against Wickford
CC and Harold Wood CC U-11 Boys teams.Both games were very
competetive and provided excellent practice for the girls,
some of whom are new to county cricket. The game against Wickford
was won by 4 runs by the girls and they followed that up with
a 2 run win over Harold Wood.
The U11 section has been training throughout the winter at
New Hall School. They start their fixtures with two matches
against Club boys’ teams on Sunday 20th and 27th April
before they start their County matches. A squad has now been
selected but new girls are always welcome to come along to
the coaching sessions at New Hall School on a Wednesday evening.
U13’s
A full training programme has been put together by the coaches
with this section for the coming season. A strong squad has
been put together who should do well in the County Championship
matches.
U15’s
Again a strong squad, the U15’s start their summer training
at Garon Park on the 12th April. This squad has a very competitive
group to play in this coming season but their management team
expect them to perform well.
U17’s
This coming season sees the U17’s with the most fixtures
that they have ever played in a season. The inclusion of two
new squad members looks to strengthen the side this year.
Women
This section has, over the last couple of years, fielded young
sides and they have now grown into a well balanced team; looking
to win their respective league this year.
The Junior Super 4’s
this season are being held at Billericay CC on Bank Holiday
Monday 5th May. It is hoped that around 40 girls of school
years 5, 6, 7 and 8 will play a “Round Robin”
4 team festival.
This year’s Lady Taverners
U13 and U15 will be held at Harold Wood CC on Friday
30th May. Club teams will be invited to enter this competition
which Harold Wood has won 3 times out of the last 4 seasons.
For more information about Women and Girls’ Cricket
in Essex please contact
Dave Letch on:
01245 254042
or e mail on
dave.letch.essex@ecb.co.uk
The age group squads of the Essex Girls sides have already
started their preparation for the 2008 season. Coaching sessions
have been running for the U11 and u13 squads on a regular
basis each Wednesday evening, the U15, u17 and Performance
squads train on a Sunday afternoon. All of this coaching /
training takes place at the Essex Women and Girls Centre for
Cricketing Excellence at New Hall School Boreham.
In addition to this 6 of our girls have been selected for
the Regional u19 training at Lords.
