Category: Women & Girls

Good luck to Shropshire’s Women’s XI who this weekend travel to the stunning Wormsley CC in Buckinghamshire to take on Oxfordshire in their national Vitality Blast T20 Finals Day.

The team have qualified for the final after an outstanding campaign in Division Two North which has seen them win nine games out of ten.

Captain Lara Jones said everyone was looking forward to being involved in Finals Day.

“We have some very strong performances in out T20 campaign this year and are now looking forward to testing ourselves against Oxfordshire at Wormsley.

“Ava Clive will be opening the batting for us again and she’s in great form with a top score of 95 off 55 balls.

“Kate Brazier is our leading wicket taker and has been brilliant leading the attack this season followed by our highly effective spinners Amy Griffiths and Izzy Crann.

“The ladies are extremely excited and incredibly honoured to be representing Shropshire at a national final.

“We’ll be doing all we can to bring the trophy home and make the county proud.”

Coach Naomi Payne who has been with the team for most of the games said: “It’s such an exciting prospect and we’re all chomping at the bit to get going.

“It’s another long travel for us, but the girls are raring to go. After the way we’ve performed of late, I have no doubt we can take centre stage and show off the skills and talent that have got us this far.”

The team for the final is: Kate Brazier, Ava Clive (wicket-keeper), Isabelle Crann, Alex Hale, Esther Hurford, Amy Griffiths, Aamna Khan, Mariam Khan, Lara Jones (captain), Millie Parry, Harriet Shuker, Anna Hurford (12th)

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Cricket Shropshire’s Women’s XI were left to reflect on what might have been as they bowed out of the Vitality T20 Women’s County Cup after defeat by Northamptonshire.

Kate Brazier led the way with both bat and ball as Shropshire claimed an ultimately comfortable victory over Cumbria in their opening game in the Metro Bank One Day Cup Division 2 North fixture.

First, she combined with Alex Hale in an 109-run partnership to help Shropshire set a competitive total after they were put into bat at Whitchurch CC’s Heath Road.

Then she led the bowling attack with a three-wicket burst from which the visitors never recovered as Shropshire won by 154 runs.

Opener Robyn Mathews hit 30 at the top of the order and Aamna Khan 27 in the Shropshire innings, but the hosts were in some trouble themselves at 108-6 when Kate joined Alex in the middle after 30 overs (the pair pictured below).

Coach Sam Whitney said: “We battled really hard at the start. There was no pace on the ball to work with, so Robyn and Aamna had to be watchful early on and their partnership set us up so Alex and Kate could play so freely.

“Halfway, I asked us to field and bowl better than them, and we did that. We bowled straight and gave them no freebies.

“We have strength in depth this season, and if we can get the core of eight or nine players out each game I think we can be successful.”

Huge thanks to everyone at Whitchurch CC for hosting the game.

The girls are back in action on Bank Holiday Monday, May 5, when they host Norfolk at Allscott Heath CC.

It is part of the ECB’s new ‘FA Cup style’ Knockout Cup (T20) which will see teams from all three Tiers in the revamped women’s game entered. 

Thanks to Shrewsbury-based DY USA for their continued support of Shropshire’s Women’s XI. The team played in the new kit provided by support given to the Board by DY USA.

Shropshire’s new-look Women’s XI launch their 2025 campaign this Easter weekend with a game again Cumbira at Whitchurch.