Cricket East

After a lean few years with just a couple of wins in total, our youngest Bedfordshire age groups at U11 and U13 have already racked up 9 wins between them in the first month of this season including two impressive wins for our Girls U11s against Northants! The coaching team have been working extremely hard on challenging our young girls to improve their games over the winter and to get into clubs to play more matches and what a result!

Abigail Butcher from our U13s scored an unbeaten 50 in a 10 wicket win for our U13s against Lincolnshire chasing 107 to win with Niamh Robson falling agonisingly short of her own 50 with 48. The performance was all the more remarkable considering the team had been bowled out for 32 earlier in the day against an inspired Huntingdonshire bowling attack with Sophie Lawrence, Arushi Sudra and Charlotte Aylmore all claiming at least two wickets. Nina Jerman also scored an unbeaten 33 in Hunts’ narrow defeat to Lincolnshire later that day.

At the older age groups, several players have made a bright start to the season. Molly Noble has produced several impressive spells of bowling, not just at U15 level but also making her debut for Cambridgeshire women this season. After a horrifically bad run of luck for Ellie Burgess to start the season, the powerful shot maker smashed 24 and 27 at a strike rate close to 200 in resounding wins for the U17s while leading Huntingdonshire Women to their first ever victory in a 36 run win over Norfolk in a 3 way T20 that also included Hertfordshire at Ketton CC – in the same T20 festival Molly Jewers returned with overall bowling figures of eight overs, one maiden, 15 runs and three wickets – astonishing for two T20s!

The Hunts and Beds U15s team played two incredibly close games against Berkshire – the first being a tie and then holding their nerve to win the second by three runs! Plenty of outstanding performances including personal batting bests for Yarinder Buller (31*), Zara Dighton (33*), Annie Banks (34) and Elspeth Brown 37*) and some great bowling by all the girls to share the wickets around.

Pictured: Hunts and Beds Girls U15 team