Leicestershire Women cricket team

The Leicestershire Women's cricket team, officially the Leicestershire and Rutland Women's cricket team since 2010, is the women's representative cricket team for the English historic counties of Leicestershire and Rutland. They play their home games at various grounds across the two counties, often in Loughborough, Leicester or Empingham.[1] They are captained by Katie Winterton.[2] In 2019, they played in Division Three of the final season of the Women's County Championship, and have since competed in the Women's Twenty20 Cup.[3] They are partnered with the East Midlands regional side The Blaze.[4]

Leicestershire Women
Personnel
CaptainKatie Winterton
CoachSteven Franklin
Team information
FoundedUnknown
First recorded match: 1948
Home groundVarious
History
WCC wins0
T20 Cup wins0
Official websiteLeicestershire Cricket

History

Leicestershire Women played their first recorded match in 1948, against Buckinghamshire Women.[5] They also played a match against a touring Australia side in 1951, as a combined team with Buckinghamshire.[6] Leicestershire joined the national women's cricket structure in 2004, competing in the County Challenge Cup, the lower tier of the Women's County Championship: they finished bottom of their group in their first season.[7] After this, Leicestershire remained in the lower levels of the Championship. They won their Division 5 group two years in a row, in 2010 and 2011, and after this have mainly played in Division Three.[8] They did gain promotion from Division Three in 2015, coming second, but were relegated the following season.[9]

In the Women's Twenty20 Cup, Leicestershire have had some successful seasons in the lower divisions of the competition: for example, they went unbeaten in 2015 and 2016.[10][11] Between 2017 and 2019, they played in Division Three.[12] In 2021, they competed in the East Midlands Group of the Twenty20 Cup, finishing 5th with 2 victories.[13] In 2022 they finished third in Group 5 of the Twenty20 Cup, before beating Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire on Finals Day to win their group.[14] They also joined the East of England Women's County Championship in 2022, finishing third out of seven in their first season.[15] In 2023, all of their group stage matches were rained-off in the Twenty20 Cup, but they lost in the semi-final on the group Finals Day.[16] They won the East of England Women's County Championship that season, going unbeaten to top the table.[17]

Players

Current squad

Based on appearances in the 2023 season.[2]

Name Nationality 2023 Appearances Notes
WT20 EoE
Katie Winterton England14Club captain; Wicket-keeper
Madi Arthur England01
Grace Ballinger England00
Emily Batey England01
Sophie Bennett England13Wicket-keeper
Rebecca Brooker England14
Ella Claridge England10Wicket-keeper
Piepa Cleary Australia01Overseas player
Aimee Colquhoun England14
Flora Davies England13
Hannah Francis England13
Libby Haward England01
April Herathge England12Dual-registration with Norfolk
Lucinda Hunter England01
Isobel Jemmott England01
Katie Midwood England01
Una Paramjothy England14
Matilda Prince England11
Brianna Ray Bermuda01
Georgia Relf England03
D'Nica Roff England01
Prisha Thanawala England01
Collette Wale England01
Lucy Weston England01
Beth Wright England14

Notable players

Players who have played for Leicestershire and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):[18]

Seasons

Women's County Championship
Season Division League standings[19] Notes
P W L T A/C BP Pts Pos
2004 County Challenge Cup G1 202006.56.54th
2005 County Challenge Cup G2 3120014264th
2006 County Challenge Cup G2 3120010304th
2007 County Challenge Cup G3 320010602nd
2008 Division 5M 302106223rd
2009 Division 5 N&E –––––––– Withdrew from competition
2010 Division 5N 76100501101st
2011 Division 5E 5500037871st Promoted
2012 Division 3 8200614343rd
2013 Division 3 85300531034th
2014 Division 3 8530047975th
2015 Division 3 85300511012nd Promoted
2016 Division 2 7140224347th Relegated
2017 Division 3D 4210121412nd
2018 Division 3E 6320126563rd
2019 Division 3A 6420042823rd

Women's Twenty20 Cup
Season Division League standings[20] Notes
P W L T A/C NRR Pts Pos
2010 Division M&N 4 21100+1.3222nd Lost promotion play-off
2011 Division M&N 4 32100+1.0742nd Lost promotion play-off
2012 Division M&N 4 32100+1.5641st Promoted
2013 Division M&N 3 21001+2.2231st
2014 Division 3C 40400−0.7808th Relegated
2015 Division 4A 44000+3.16161st Lost promotion play-off
2016 Division 4C 66000+1.82241st
2017 Division 3B 85201+0.77212nd
2018 Division 3B 85300+0.13203rd
2019 Division 3C 80512−2.0744th
2021 East Midlands 82402−0.72105th
2022 Group 5 62400−1.2483rd Group winners
2023 Group 2 60006+0.0061st

Honours

See also

References
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  2. "Batting and Fielding for Leicestershire Women/Vitality Women's County T20 2023". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
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  4. "Loughborough Selected as Host for Women's Cricket". Loughborough University. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
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  6. "Leicestershire and Buckinghamshire Women vs Australia Women, 1951". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
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  13. "Women's County T20 East Midlands Group - 2021". ECB Women's County Championship. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  14. "Women's County T20 Group 5 - 2022". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  15. "Women's 1st XI Championship - 2022/Table". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  16. "Women's County T20 Group 2 - 2023". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  17. "Women's 1st XI Championship - 2023/Table". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  18. "Leicestershire Women Players". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  19. "ECB Women's County Championship". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  20. "ECB Women's County Championship". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
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