Leicestershire Women cricket team
English county cricket team
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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, the Women's T20 County Cup and the Women's T20 Blast.
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| One Day name | Leicestershire Foxes | ||
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| Personnel | |||
| Captain | Rebecca Brooker | ||
| Coach | Steven Franklin | ||
| Team information | |||
| Founded | UnknownFirst recorded match: 1948 | ||
| Home ground | Grace Road, Leicester | ||
| History | |||
| WCC wins | 0 | ||
| T20 Cup wins | 0 | ||
| Official website | Leicestershire Cricket | ||
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History
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
Current squad
- 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 | 20 August 1999 | Club captain | ||
| 18 | Prisha Thanawala | England | 16 November 2006 | Dual registered with The Blaze | ||
| 30 | Flora Davies | England | 21 December 2007 | Dual registered with The Blaze | ||
| 33 | Indira Singh | England | 1 October 2008 | Dual registered with Warwickshire | ||
| 97 | Faith Teekasingh | England | 27 February 2009 | Dual registered with The Blaze | ||
| All-rounders | ||||||
| 4 | Hayley Brown | England | 25 March 1998 | |||
| 15 | Francesca Sweet | England | 15 June 2004 | Dual registered with Hampshire | ||
| 31 | Holly Whitfield | England | 17 December 2005 | |||
| 52 | Sophie Grayson | England | 14 April 2004 | |||
| 68 | Emelia Butler | England | 3 July 2007 | |||
| 70 | Nayma Sheikh |  Scotland | 4 March 2006 | |||
| 73 | Lucy Weston | England | 7 October 2004 | |||
| 77 | Isla-Rose Williamson | England | 7 February 2008 | Dual registered with The Blaze | ||
| 84 | Ellie Phillips | England | 5 November 2006 | Dual registered with The Blaze | ||
| Wicket-keepers | ||||||
| 37 | Lucy Western | England | 27 November 1998 | |||
| 44 | Ellen Watson | Scotland | 10 March 2000 | |||
| Bowlers | ||||||
| 3 | Anjali Ketan | England | 28 February 2006 | |||
| 10 | Emma Wrightson | England | 9 February 2005 | |||
| 13 | Aimee Colquhoun | England | 13 February 2004 | |||
| 17 | Emma Thatcher | England | 26 July 1998 | |||
| 24 | April Herathge | England | 20 April 2001 | |||
| 25 | Tia Joseph | England | 2 November 2005 | |||
| 66 | D'Nica Roff | England | 14 June 2006 | |||
| 72 | Caitlin Chissell | England | 17 August 2006 | |||
Notable players
Players who have played for Leicestershire and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):[17]
Sonia Odedra (2014)
Ella Claridge (2024)
Seasons
Women's County Championship
| 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
| 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
Honours
- Women's Twenty20 Cup:
- Group winners (1) – 2022
- ECB Women's County One-Day:
- Group winners (1) – 2024