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Leicestershire Women
One Day nameLeicestershire Foxes
Personnel
CaptainRebecca Brooker
CoachSteven Franklin
Team information
FoundedUnknown
First recorded match: 1948
Home groundGrace Road, Leicester
History
WCC wins0
T20 Cup wins0
Official websiteLeicestershire Cricket

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 often at Grace Road, Leicester. They are captained by Rebecca Brooker.[1] They currently play as a Tier 2 side in the Women's One-Day Cup, and the Women's T20 Blast.

History

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Leicestershire Women played their first recorded match in 1948, against Buckinghamshire Women.[2] They also played a match against a touring Australia side in 1951, as a combined team with Buckinghamshire.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5] They did gain promotion from Division Three in 2015, coming second, but were relegated the following season.[6]

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.[7][8] Between 2017 and 2019, they played in Division Three.[9] In 2021, they competed in the East Midlands Group of the Twenty20 Cup, finishing 5th with 2 victories.[10] In 2022 they finished third in Group 5 of the Twenty20 Cup, before beating Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire on Finals Day to win their group.[11] They also joined the East of England Women's County Championship in 2022, finishing third out of seven in their first season.[12] 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.[13] They won the East of England Women's County Championship that season, going unbeaten to top the table.[14] In 2024, the side finished 4th in their group in the Twenty20 Cup and won their group in the new ECB Women's County One-Day tournament, winning all four of their matches.[15][16]

Players

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Current squad

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  • No. denotes the player's squad number, as worn on the back of their shirt.
No. Name Nationality Birth date Notes
Batters
12 Rebecca Brooker  England (1999-08-20) 20 August 1999 (age 25) Club captain
18 Prisha Thanawala  England (2006-11-16) 16 November 2006 (age 18) On loan from The Blaze
30 Flora Davies  England (2007-12-21) 21 December 2007 (age 17)
All-rounders
4 Hayley Brown  England (1998-03-25) 25 March 1998 (age 27)
15 Francesca Sweet  England (2004-06-15) 15 June 2004 (age 20)
27 Laura Crofts  England (1991-12-27) 27 December 1991 (age 33)
31 Holly Whitfield  England (2005-12-17) 17 December 2005 (age 19)
73 Lucy Weston  England (2004-10-07) 7 October 2004 (age 20)
79 Bethan Solomon  England (2001-09-07) 7 September 2001 (age 23)
84 Ellie Phillips  England (2006-11-05) 5 November 2006 (age 18)
Wicket-keepers
29 Sophie Bennett  England (2003-10-01) 1 October 2003 (age 21)
44 Ellen Watson  Scotland (2000-03-10) 10 March 2000 (age 25)
Bowlers
13 Aimee Colquhoun  England (2004-02-13) 13 February 2004 (age 21)
17 Emma Thatcher  England (1998-07-26) 26 July 1998 (age 26)
24 April Herathge  England (2001-04-20) 20 April 2001 (age 24)
42 Molly Abraham  England (2007-03-18) 18 March 2007 (age 18)
66 D'Nica Roff  England (2006-06-14) 14 June 2006 (age 18)

Notable players

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Players who have played for Leicestershire and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):[17]

Seasons

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Women's County Championship

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Season Division League standings[18] Notes
P W L T A/C BP Pts Pos
2004 County Challenge Cup G1 2 0 2 0 0 6.5 6.5 4th
2005 County Challenge Cup G2 3 1 2 0 0 14 26 4th
2006 County Challenge Cup G2 3 1 2 0 0 10 30 4th
2007 County Challenge Cup G3 3 2 0 0 1 0 60 2nd
2008 Division 5M 3 0 2 1 0 6 22 3rd
2009 Division 5 N&E – – – – – – – – Withdrew from competition
2010 Division 5N 7 6 1 0 0 50 110 1st
2011 Division 5E 5 5 0 0 0 37 87 1st Promoted
2012 Division 3 8 2 0 0 6 14 34 3rd
2013 Division 3 8 5 3 0 0 53 103 4th
2014 Division 3 8 5 3 0 0 47 97 5th
2015 Division 3 8 5 3 0 0 51 101 2nd Promoted
2016 Division 2 7 1 4 0 2 24 34 7th Relegated
2017 Division 3D 4 2 1 0 1 21 41 2nd
2018 Division 3E 6 3 2 0 1 26 56 3rd
2019 Division 3A 6 4 2 0 0 42 82 3rd

Women's Twenty20 Cup

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Season Division League standings[19] Notes
P W L T A/C NRR Pts Pos
2010 Division M&N 4 2 1 1 0 0 +1.32 2 2nd Lost promotion play-off
2011 Division M&N 4 3 2 1 0 0 +1.07 4 2nd Lost promotion play-off
2012 Division M&N 4 3 2 1 0 0 +1.56 4 1st Promoted
2013 Division M&N 3 2 1 0 0 1 +2.22 3 1st
2014 Division 3C 4 0 4 0 0 −0.78 0 8th Relegated
2015 Division 4A 4 4 0 0 0 +3.16 16 1st Lost promotion play-off
2016 Division 4C 6 6 0 0 0 +1.82 24 1st
2017 Division 3B 8 5 2 0 1 +0.77 21 2nd
2018 Division 3B 8 5 3 0 0 +0.13 20 3rd
2019 Division 3C 8 0 5 1 2 −2.07 4 4th
2021 East Midlands 8 2 4 0 2 −0.72 10 5th
2022 Group 5 6 2 4 0 0 −1.24 8 3rd Group winners
2023 Group 2 6 0 0 0 6 +0.00 6 1st
2024 Group 2 8 3 2 1 2 –0.49 72 4th

ECB Women's County One-Day

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Season Group League standings[20] Notes
P W L T A/C BP Pts Pos
2024 Group 2 4 4 0 0 0 4 20 1st Group winners

Honours

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Becki Brooker Appointed Leicestershire Women Captain". Leicestershire County Cricket Club. 7 March 2024. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Leicestershire Women Scorecards". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Leicestershire and Buckinghamshire Women vs Australia Women, 1951". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  4. ^ "ECB Women's County Challenge Cup G1 - 2004". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  5. ^ "ECB Women's County Championship". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  6. ^ "ECB Women's County Championship Division 3 - 2015". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  7. ^ "ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup Division 4A - 2015". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  8. ^ "ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup Division 4C - 2016". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  9. ^ "ECB Women's County Championship". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  10. ^ "Women's County T20 East Midlands Group - 2021". ECB Women's County Championship. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  11. ^ "Women's County T20 Group 5 - 2022". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  12. ^ "Women's 1st XI Championship - 2022/Table". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  13. ^ "Women's County T20 Group 2 - 2023". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  14. ^ "Women's 1st XI Championship - 2023/Table". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  15. ^ "Vitality Women's County T20 2024". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  16. ^ "Vitality Women's County Championship 2024". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  17. ^ "Leicestershire Women Players". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  18. ^ "ECB Women's County Championship". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  19. ^ "ECB Women's County Championship". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  20. ^ "ECB Women's County Championship". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
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