Glamorgan women's cricket team

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Glamorgan Women
League Women's One-Day Cup, T20 Blast
ConferenceLeague 2
Personnel
Coach Rachel Priest [1] [2]
Team information
Founded2024
Home ground Sophia Gardens [3]
Secondary home ground(s) Newport CC, Neath CC, Colwyn Bay CC [4]

The Glamorgan Women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for the Welsh historic county of Glamorgan. The team competes in county cricket competitions in England and Wales. Its status was confirmed by Glamorgan CCC and the ECB in April 2024. [5] [6]

Beginning in 2025, it will play in the Women's One-Day Cup and Women's T20 Blast in League 2, and in the Women's T20 County Cup. [7] The team is scheduled to move to the top division as a professional team in 2027. [2] [8]

Glamorgan's head coach is the former New Zealand international player Rachel Priest. [1]

Between 2002 and 2024, Wales women's cricket team represented the country, including in the Women's County Championship and Twenty20 Cup. Nine members of that team joined Glamorgan when it formed. [2] From 2016 until 2024, the combined regional women's team Western Storm represented both Wales and the counties of South West England. [9] Glamorgan's head of women's and girls' cricket, Aimee Rees, said, "Glamorgan doesn’t just represent a county, we represent a country, and today’s [Tier 1] announcement will give girls in Wales the best opportunity to be professional cricketers". [5]

The team is partnered with Glamorgan men's team. They will play a set of double-header T20 matches in 2025, including at Sophia Gardens. [3]

Glamorgan and Cardiff Metropolitan University run an associated academy to train young cricketers, including selected female players from Wales, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. [10] [11]

References

  1. 1 2 "Glamorgan name former New Zealand wicketkeeper as first women's head coach". The Cricketer. 27 February 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Webb, Nick (14 March 2025). "New Glamorgan women's side 'monumental' for Wales". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 14 March 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Glamorgan men and women handed four T20 double-headers". BBC Sport. 21 November 2024.
  4. ↑ "Glamorgan Women's Fixtures 2025" (PDF). Glamorgan Cricket. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 March 2025.
  5. 1 2 "Glamorgan Cricket awarded Tier 1 Women's Team". Glamorgan Cricket. Archived from the original on 18 April 2024.
  6. ↑ "Eight Tier 1 Counties confirmed for 2025 and plans unveiled for four more women's professional domestic teams by 2029". ECB. 17 April 2024. Archived from the original on 24 April 2024.
  7. ↑ "Glamorgan Women's Fixtures for 2025 Out Now". Glamorgan Cricket. Archived from the original on 22 March 2025.
  8. ↑ "Glamorgan Awarded Tier 1 Women's Team". Sport in Wales. 18 April 2024. Archived from the original on 17 September 2024.
  9. ↑ "Glamorgan seek head coach for women's cricket". BBC Sport. 1 November 2024.
  10. ↑ "Glamorgan Cricket launch new Girls' Academy in partnership with Cardiff Met". Cardiff Metropolitan University. 17 December 2024.
  11. ↑ "Gloucestershire Women's Pathway players selected to join Glamorgan's Academy in strategic partnership". Gloucestershire Cricket. 9 December 2024.
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