Women and Girls' Cricket

ESSEX YOUTH GAMES, U11 girls' cricket a great success

On Saturday 18th June 2005 the Essex Youth games at Garrons Park in Southend included girl’s under 11 cricket.

Seven areas entered teams. Basildon and Brentwood. Braintree and Uttlesford. Thurrock. Southend. Colchester and Tendering, Chelmsford and Maldon. And Harlow and Epping.

In all 60 girls from these area’s competed in an 8 a side Kwick Cricket tournament. This was the third year that the cricket has been run as U11 girls and the quality of cricket has improved from year to year.

The teams were split into two groups where they played a round robin league with the winners of both leagues playing for first and second place and the runners up playing for the third and fourth place.

The festival was won by the Basildon and Brentwood area with Braintree and Uttlesford runners up. The quality of cricket was of a standard that two of the girls competing have been asked to play hard ball cricket for the Essex Primary Schools team against other counties.

The tournament was successfully organised through the Essex County Cricket Board Cricket Development Department by Graham Jelley who gave a short address.

Trophies and certificates were presented to the teams by Pam Letch the Vice Chair of the Essex Women’s cricket Association.

David Letch