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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Topic started by: Cow_corner on June 02, 2016, 01:08:30 AM
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Playing cricket in China, we have two women who play regularly in our league (7 clubs playing across 3 divisions) wondered what the situation is like elsewhere in the world?
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Based on last year, in our 3rds league, we occasionally come up against Australian 1st XI Women....
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Played against 2 this year and have played with my better half twice. She will also be playing for us when not involved with the Scotland Womens team. There are also another 2 that I can think of who play, who I have yet to
come across play against.
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As far as I am aware there is only one in the division I play in and that's Arran Brindle. Played against her last weekend and up against her and the Louth team she captains again this weekend. She's a good bat!
Over the last 20 years I think I have only played against about 5 women.
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Played against 2 this year and have played with my better half twice. She will also be playing for us when not involved with the Scotland Womens team. There are also another 2 that I can think of who play, who I have yet to come across play against.
Who do you play for?
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I play down in Cumbria, only played in Scotland during my Uni Days, She is moving down with me before a years teaching placement in Stirling.
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There's quite a few playing in the lower Bristol leagues. I didn't play last week but the opposition teams female opener scored I think 103no
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We've only just joined the Herts league and have had to start right at the bottom. Last weekend they had a girl playing for them and she was a pretty good bowler. Just landed it on a length, nothing more nothing less.
We've played two friendly's against a team that also have a girl in their side. She does nothing more than bowl a steady line and length with maybe a little bit of wobble at a very friendly pace. The first game last year she got 4-48 against us including a hattrick. This season she took 6-41. Luckily I haven't been part of the 10.
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I play down in Cumbria, only played in Scotland during my Uni Days, She is moving down with me before a years teaching placement in Stirling.
Cool, Stirling was my old club before moving, woman are pretty well represented in the Saturdays sides there.
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As mentioned Arran Brindle and Hayley Butts is floating around the lincs leagues somewhere im sure. Captained a few girls that had yorkshire experience before sprouting out kids and played with Salliann Briggs when i first started playing cricket.
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As far as I am aware there is only one in the division I play in and that's Arran Brindle. Played against her last weekend and up against her and the Louth team she captains again this weekend. She's a good bat!
Over the last 20 years I think I have only played against about 5 women.
Used to play cricket with Arran and her sister holly and their father
All very very good cricketers
Arran was possibly one of the best close fielders I've ever seen
As I recall, there were a couple more women played at barnoldswick cc at that time
Played a league game last week down in Oxfordshire against a team with a young girl in.
She wasn't the best fielder shall we say
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Have only ever played against one, that being Danielle hazell , she got a few runs and wickets that day but other than that she's the only woman that I can recall playing in the league
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@dcullen8 Arran now captains Louth 2nds in the Lincs 1st div.
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Played against a few from the glos women's team in Sunday friendlies snd they are poor. Northants ones were about the same. I can only assume the standards are low if these are playing 'county' cricket.
I'd except players like Taylor, Edwards and brunt who are several levels above any other female
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Only played against 2 women so far season both played for the same team one was the captains girlfriend and the other his sister both only played because the Captain promised to take them out for a meal after the match.
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Played against a few from the glos women's team in Sunday friendlies snd they are poor. Northants ones were about the same. I can only assume the standards are low if these are playing 'county' cricket.
I'd except players like Taylor, Edwards and brunt who are several levels above any other female
County cricket is a bit different in the women's game as there are no minor counties as such, so there are 30 odd counties involved. Only the top 2 divisions will have any real quality and most of that is concentrated in Division 1. Northants and Gloucester are both in division 3 to put it in perspective.
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Interesting to note that the Chinese ladies team is stronger than the men's, the exception being one guy who played in Lincolnshire leagues a couple of years ago. The two women here have both captained respective countries China and Scotland.
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Played against current England ladies batter a few times when I was living and playing in Kent, can't recall name but probably only a handful of times mainly on Sundays
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Just to follow up on this. We turned up at Louth CC to play their seconds yesterday and not only did they have Arran Brindle but also Charlotte Edwards and Suzie Bates. There was a lady umpire too.
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Did you win?
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Nope. All out for 150 (I got 35) and they knocked them off for 3. I did catch Charlotte Edwards out for a golden with a sharp take at slip.
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Talking of Edwards... She's come out and started spelling the beans.. Basically to sum up.. She's said the other players aren't good enough which I think is pretty obvious.
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There's quite a few ladies and girls that play in the lower divisions of our leagues. There not professionals, just enthusiasts.
There's also an "all ladies" anston team in our Sunday league. Amusingly as its not an all woman's league. They usually have 9 woman and 2 blokes every Sunday.
1 week the oppo reported them to the league, as they had them 56 for 9, and 10 and 11 were the clubs two male pros, and they finished the innings in the 300's. League obvioudly did nothing. Lol.
As for us, the oppo signed then Pakistan woman's captain urooj Khan a few seasons back, and the league declared she could only play for the firsts, she had a decent season with ball (30 odd wickets) and about 300 runs with bat.
It was very much her level. And she played well in both games against us.