Personnel | |
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Captain | Olivia Brinsden |
Coach | Colin Knight |
Team information | |
Founded | UnknownFirst recorded match: 2000 |
Home ground | VariousIncluding Park Side Road, Kendal |
History | |
WCC wins | 0 |
T20 Cup wins | 0 |
Official website | Cumbria Women |
The Cumbria Women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for the English ceremonial county of Cumbria. They play their home games at various grounds across the county. [1] [2] In 2019, they played in Division 3 of the final season of the Women's County Championship, and have since competed in the Women's Twenty20 Cup. [3] Cumbria have links with Lancashire, with some players playing for both sides, and they are partnered with the regional side North West Thunder. [4] [5]
Cumbria Women's first recorded match was against Scotland Women in 2000, which they lost by 10 wickets. [6] The following year, Cumbria joined the Emerging Counties competition, which acted as a feeder competition for the Women's County Championship, in which they competed for three seasons before joining its successor, the County Challenge Cup. [7] Since then, in the Challenge Cup and when they joined the County Championship proper in 2008, Cumbria Women have remained in the bottom tier of competition. [8] They also joined the Women's Twenty20 Cup for its inaugural year in 2009, and again have been consistently in the lowest division. [9] They achieved one of their best finishes in 2019, finishing 2nd in Division 3C with 3 victories. [10] In 2021, they competed in the North Group of the Twenty20 Cup, finishing bottom with no victories. [11] They again finished bottom of their group in the 2022 and 2023 Twenty20 Cups. [12] [13] In 2024, the side finished 7th in their group in the Twenty20 Cup. [14]
Based on appearances in the 2023 season. [15]
Name | Nationality | Apps | Notes |
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Olivia Brinsden | England | 2 | Club captain |
Grace Airey | England | 4 | |
Carenza Curwen | England | 2 | |
Sarah-Jayne Earl | England | 2 | |
Jenny Fallows | England | 4 | |
Kate Field | England | 4 | |
Mahika Gaur ‡ | England [lower-alpha 1] | 2 | |
Ruby Hutchison | England | 4 | Wicket-keeper |
Maeve Jones | England | 2 | |
Tilly Kesteven | England | 4 | |
Lily King | England | 2 | |
S Parker | England | 2 | |
Bethan Robinson | England | 3 | |
Hannah Snape | England | 2 | Dual-registration with Lancashire |
Emily Tucker | Scotland | 2 | |
Maddie Wood | England | 4 |
Players who have played for Cumbria and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets): [16]
Season | Division | League standings [17] | Notes | |||||||
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P | W | L | T | A/C | BP | Pts | Pos | |||
2001 | Emerging Counties | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | Unknown | |
2002 | Emerging Counties | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12.5 | 12.5 | 3rd | |
2003 | Emerging Counties | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10.5 | 10.5 | 3rd | |
2004 | County Challenge Cup G2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19.5 | 31.5 | 2nd | |
2005 | County Challenge Cup G1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 4th | |
2006 | County Challenge Cup G1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 3rd | |
2007 | County Challenge Cup G4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 32 | 3rd | |
2008 | Division 5N | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 3rd | |
2009 | Division 5 N&E | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 45 | 1st | |
2010 | Division 5N | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 61 | 3rd | |
2011 | Division 5N | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 24 | 4th | |
2012 | Division 4 N&E | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 22 | 4th | |
2013 | Division 4 N&E | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 54 | 2nd | |
2014 | Division 4 N&E | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 42 | 2nd | |
2015 | Division 4 N&E | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 55 | 2nd | |
2016 | Division 4 N&E | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 28 | 5th | |
2017 | Division 3A | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -15 | 4th | |
2018 | Division 3A | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 51 | 3rd | |
2019 | Division 3A | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 43 | 5th |
Season | Division | League standings [18] | Notes | |||||||
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P | W | L | T | A/C | NRR | Pts | Pos | |||
2009 | Division 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – | 3 | 1st | |
2010 | Division M&N 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | −1.36 | 0 | 3rd | |
2011 | Division M&N 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | −1.91 | 0 | 4th | |
2012 | Division M&N 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | −1.54 | 0 | 4th | Relegated |
2013 | Division M&N 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | −0.35 | 2 | 2nd | |
2014 | Division 4C | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2.50 | 16 | 3rd | |
2015 | Division 4C | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | +0.19 | 11 | 2nd | |
2016 | Division 4C | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | −0.36 | 8 | 3rd | |
2017 | Division 3B | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | −2.55 | 0 | 6th | |
2018 | Division 3B | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | −1.70 | 8 | 6th | |
2019 | Division 3C | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | −0.13 | 14 | 2nd | |
2021 | North | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | −3.95 | 2 | 6th | |
2022 | Group 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | −1.77 | 0 | 7th | |
2023 | Group 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | −5.90 | 4 | 7th | |
2024 | Group 1 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | –3.68 | 36 | 7th |
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