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Suffolk Women
Personnel
CaptainNatalie Samuels
Team information
FoundedUnknown
First recorded match: 2007
Home groundVarious
History
WCC wins0
T20 Cup wins0
Official websiteSuffolk Cricket

The Suffolk Women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for the English historic county of Suffolk. They play their home games at various grounds across the county, including Wamil Way, Mildenhall and Woolpit CC, Woolpit.[1] They are captained by Natalie Samuels.[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 regional side Sunrisers.[4]

History[edit]

Suffolk Women joined the county system in 2007, competing in the County Challenge Cup, the lower tier of the Women's County Championship, in which they lost all three of their games.[5] The next few seasons saw similarly poor performances, but the team improved from 2011 onwards, and Suffolk topped Division 4 North & East for three consecutive seasons in 2012, 2013 and 2014, missing out on promotion in play-offs in the first two instances, before finally achieving Division 3 status in 2014, beating Cornwall in a play-off by 61 runs.[6][7] However, Suffolk were relegated in 2015 and have since only played in the lowest tier of the Championship, missing out on promotion in a play-off once again in 2018.[8][9]

In the Women's Twenty20 Cup, Suffolk have similarly played in the lower tiers of the competition, but did manage to gain promotion to Division South 2 in 2011, and in 2016 they topped Division 4A, going through the season unbeaten.[10][11] In 2021, they competed in the East Group of the Twenty20 Cup, finishing 3rd with 4 victories.[12] Suffolk batter Imogen Sidhu was the leading run-scorer across the whole competition, with 293 runs including 4 half-centuries.[13] In 2022, they won their group of the Twenty20 Cup, finishing second in the initial group stage before beating Cambridgeshire and Essex on the group Finals Day to emerge victorious.[14] They also began competing in the East of England Women's County Championship in 2022, and won the competition, winning five of their six matches.[15] They finished bottom of their group in the 2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup, and finished third in the East of England Women's County Championship.[16][17]

Players[edit]

Current squad[edit]

Based on appearances in the 2023 season.[18]

Name Nationality 2023 Appearances Notes
WT20 EoE
Natalie Samuels  England 4 3 Club captain
Jess Board  England 0 3
Amelie Clarke  England 6 5
Emily Cunningham  New Zealand 4 4
Emma Howard  England 1 0
Sophie Hughes  England 6 5
Olivia Hyndman  England 5 4
Olivia Locke  England 0 2
Lara Neild  England 6 4
CJ Oastler  England 3 5 Wicket-keeper
Maddie Reynolds  England 6 0
Imogen Sidhu  England 6 5
Isobel Sidhu  England 6 4
Poppy Sidhu  England 6 5
Sophie Singer  England 5 1
Lauren Swinburne  England 5 4
Petra Tweedy  England 1 3

Seasons[edit]

Women's County Championship[edit]

Season Division League standings[19] Notes
P W L T A/C BP Pts Pos
2007 County Challenge Cup G3 3 0 3 0 0 4 4 4th
2008 Division 5 L&E 3 0 2 0 1 0 10 4th
2009 Division 5 S&E 3 1 2 0 0 5 25 3rd
2010 Division 5E 6 1 5 0 0 20 30 4th
2011 Division 5E 5 2 3 0 0 27 47 2nd
2012 Division 4 N&E 4 3 0 0 1 24 54 1st Lost promotion playoff
2013 Division 4 N&E 4 4 0 0 0 27 67 1st Lost promotion playoff
2014 Division 4 N&E 4 4 0 0 0 30 70 1st Promoted
2015 Division 3 8 0 6 1 1 33 38 9th Relegated
2016 Division 4 N&W 5 3 1 0 1 25 55 2nd
2017 Division 3D 4 2 2 0 0 22 42 3rd
2018 Division 3D 6 5 1 0 0 42 92 1st Lost promotion playoff
2019 Division 3B 5 2 3 0 0 25 45 5th

Women's Twenty20 Cup[edit]

Season Division League standings[20] Notes
P W L T A/C NRR Pts Pos
2009 Division 8 3 2 1 0 0 +0.71 4 2nd
2010 Division S3 2 0 2 0 0 −2.29 0 3rd
2011 Division S3 2 1 1 0 0 +1.06 2 1st Promoted
2012 Division S2 3 0 2 0 1 −6.30 0 4th
2013 Division S2 3 0 3 0 0 −2.76 0 4th
2014 Division 4A 4 2 2 0 0 −0.39 8 5th
2015 Division 4A 4 3 1 0 0 +0.14 12 2nd
2016 Division 4A 6 6 0 0 0 +0.88 24 1st
2017 Division 3C 8 3 5 0 0 −0.08 12 4th
2018 Division 3C 8 3 5 0 0 −1.49 12 5th
2019 Division 3B 8 2 6 0 0 −0.46 8 7th
2021 East 8 4 2 0 2 +0.39 18 3rd
2022 Group 4 6 4 2 0 0 –0.23 16 2nd Group winners
2023 Group 7 6 0 5 0 1 –1.83 1 4th

Honours[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Suffolk Women Scorecards". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Suffolk Women". Suffolk Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  3. ^ "ECB Women's County Championship". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Sunrisers Cricket Home Page". Sunrisers Cricket. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Women's County Challenge Cup 2007 Tables". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  6. ^ "ECB Women's County Championship". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  7. ^ "Cornwall Women v Suffolk Women, 14 September 2014". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  8. ^ "ECB Women's County Championship Division 3 - 2015". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  9. ^ "ECB Women's County Championship Division 4D - 2018". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  10. ^ "ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup Division S3 - 2011". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  11. ^ "ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup Division 4A - 2016". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  12. ^ "Women's County T20 East Group - 2021". ECB Women's County Championship. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  13. ^ "Batting and Fielding in Vitality Women's County T20 2021 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  14. ^ "Women's County T20 Group 4 - 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 7 - 2023". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  17. ^ "Women's 1st XI Championship - 2023/Table". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  18. ^ "Batting and Fielding for Suffolk Women/Vitality Women's County T20 2023". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  19. ^ "ECB Women's County Championship". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  20. ^ "ECB Women's County Championship". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
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