The Middlesex Women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for the English historic county of Middlesex. They are a tier two county side and play their home games at various grounds, including Lord's, Merchant Taylors' School and Radlett Cricket Club. They are captained by Saskia Horley. They won Division 2 of the Women's County Championship in 2019 and won the Women's Twenty20 Cup in 2018. Prior to the 2025 restructure of women's county cricket they were partnered with the regional side Sunrisers.
History 1935–1996: Early History Middlesex Women played their first recorded match in 1935, against Civil Service Women, and went on to play various one-off games over the following years, most often against surrounding teams such as Surrey Women. They joined the Women's Area Championship in 1980, winning the first two titles, and winning again in 1985.
1997– : Women's County Championship After the Area Championship ended in 1996, Middlesex Women were one of the founding teams for the Women's County Championship, beginning in 1997, finishing 5th in Division Two in their first season. After being relegated to Division Three the following season, Middlesex then began a steady rise up through the divisions, finally reaching Division One for the first time in 2011. From here, they remained a mid-table side over subsequent seasons, until they were relegated in 2018, the same year in which they won their first major title, the Twenty20 Cup (after being runners-up in 2014 and 2017). In 2019, the final year of the County Championship, Middlesex won Division 2. Since 2015, Middlesex have also competed in the London Cup, in which they play a Twenty20 match against Surrey. Middlesex won the first five competitions, but Surrey have won three of the four matches played since 2020. The side has also competed in the Women's London Championship since 2020. In 2021, they competed in the South East Group of the Twenty20 Cup, finishing 5th with 3 wins, and regained the London Cup, beating Surrey by 8 wickets. They won their group of the Twenty20 Cup in 2022, going unbeaten. In the 2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Middlesex finished top of their group and reached the group final, but the title was shared due to rain. In 2024, the side finished 3rd in their group in the Twenty20 Cup and 5th in their group in the new ECB Women's County One-Day tournament. They also won the Women's London Championship for the first time, winning all of their matches.
Players Current squad Based on appearances in the 2023 season. denotes players with international caps.
Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes Batters Cordelia Griffith Right-handed Right-arm medium Gemma Marriott Unknown Unknown Unknown Dual-registration with Hertfordshire Natasha Miles Right-handed Right-arm medium Louise Poulter Unknown Unknown Isabella Routledge Right-handed Right-arm off break All-rounders Chloe Abel Unknown Right-handed Right-arm medium Kate Coppack Right-handed Right-arm medium Naomi Dattani Left-handed Left-arm medium Mariko Hill Right-handed Right-arm medium Saskia Horley Right-handed Right-arm off break Club captain Riva Pindoria Unknown Right-handed Right-arm off break Lucy Porter Unknown Unknown Unknown Amuruthaa Surenkumar Right-handed Right-arm medium Wicket-keepers Hermione Baxter-Chinery Unknown – Amara Carr Right-handed – Iqraa Hussain Unknown – Amelie Munday Unknown Unknown – Dual-registration with Devon Bowlers Jenny Bloefeld Unknown Unknown Unknown Anisha Dissanayake Unknown Unknown Right-arm leg break Bhavika Gajipra Unknown Right-handed Right-arm off break Gayatri Gole Right-handed Right-arm medium Katie Green Unknown Unknown Unknown Abtaha Maqsood Right-handed Right-arm leg break Sonali Patel Right-handed Right-arm medium Emily Thorpe Right-handed Right-arm leg break Lauren Turner Unknown Unknown Unknown
Notable players Players who have played for Middlesex and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):
Doris Turner (1934) Joan Davis (1937) Eileen Whelan (1937) Audrey Collins (1937) Mary Duggan (1949) Megan Lowe (1949) Netta Rheinberg (1949) Winifred Leech (1951) Mary Spry (1951) Betty Birch (1951) Anne Sanders (1954) Helen Sharpe (1957) Esme Irwin (1960) Liz Amos (1961) Margaret Jude (1963) Bev Brentnall (1966) Jacqueline Court (1973) Ros Heggs (1973) Glynis Hullah (1976) Catherine Mowat (1978) Avril Starling (1982) Helen Stother (1982) Gillian Smith (1986) Lisa Nye (1988) Debra Stock (1992) Sandra Dawson (1993) Chanderkanta Kaul (1993) Shaiza Khan (1997) Sharmeen Khan (1997) Beth Morgan (1999) Laura Joyce (2001) Kate Blackwell (2005) Isabelle Westbury (2005) Jodie Fields (2006) Lauren Ebsary (2008) Julie Hunter (2010) Fran Wilson (2010) Holly Huddleston (2014) Catherine Dalton (2015) Alex Hartley (2016) Abtaha Maqsood (2018) Sophia Dunkley (2018) Mariko Hill (2019) Maia Bouchier (2021) Natasha Miles (2021) Lauren Bell (2022) Saskia Horley (2022) Chloe Abel (2023)
Seasons Women's County Championship Season Division League standings Notes P W L T A/C BP Pts Pos 1997 Division 2 5 1 4 0 0 26 38 5th 1998 Division 2 5 1 4 0 0 26 38 6th Relegated 1999 Division 3 5 3 2 0 0 39 75 2nd 2000 Division 3 5 3 2 0 0 40 76 2nd 2001 Division 3 4 4 0 0 0 38.5 86.5 1st Promoted 2002 Division 2 5 0 3 0 2 20 42 5th 2003 Division 2 5 4 1 0 0 38.5 86.5 2nd 2004 Division 2 5 2 3 0 0 31.5 55.5 5th 2005 Division 3 6 2 3 0 1 36.5 71.5 2nd 2006 Division 3 6 3 2 0 1 6 74 3rd 2007 Division 3 6 2 2 0 2 7 77 2nd 2008 Division 3 6 3 3 0 0 10 70 2nd Promoted 2009 Division 2 10 7 3 0 0 14 154 2nd 2010 Division 2 10 8 2 0 0 64 144 1st Promoted 2011 Division 1 10 5 3 0 2 45 95 3rd 2012 Division 1 8 1 2 0 5 18 28 4th 2013 Division 1 8 2 6 0 0 45 65 7th 2014 Division 1 8 2 3 0 3 28 48 6th 2015 Division 1 8 3 4 0 1 44 74 5th 2016 Division 1 8 4 3 0 1 36 76 6th 2017 Division 1 7 3 4 0 0 46 76 5th 2018 Division 1 7 2 4 0 1 32 52 7th Relegated 2019 Division 2 7 5 1 1 0 47 102 1st
Women's Twenty20 Cup Season Division League standings Notes P W L T A/C NRR Pts Pos 2009 Division 3 3 1 1 0 1 –0.25 3 3rd 2010 Division S1 3 1 2 0 0 –1.84 2 3rd 2011 Division S1 3 1 2 0 0 –1.52 2 3rd 2012 Division S1 3 0 2 0 1 –1.23 2 3rd 2013 Division S1 3 2 1 0 0 +0.34 8 3rd 2014 Division 1A 4 3 1 0 0 +0.31 6 2nd 2015 Division 1 8 5 3 0 0 +1.34 20 4th 2016 Division 1 7 3 2 0 2 +0.29 14 3rd 2017 Division 1 8 5 3 0 0 +0.76 20 2nd 2018 Division 1 8 7 1 0 0 +0.55 28 1st Champions 2019 Division 1 8 2 4 0 2 –0.61 10 8th 2021 South East 8 3 4 0 1 +0.18 13 5th 2022 South East 6 6 0 0 0 +5.13 24 1st Group winners 2023 Group 6 6 4 0 0 2 +1.34 18 1st Shared group winners 2024 Group 3 8 4 2 0 2 +0.13 73 3rd
ECB Women's County One-Day Season Group League standings Notes P W L T A/C BP Pts Pos 2024 Group 4 4 1 3 0 0 1 5 5th
Honours
Women's Area Championship: Champions (3) – 1980, 1981 & 1985 County Championship: Division Two Champions (2) – 2010 & 2019 Division Three Champions (1) – 2001 Twenty20 Cup: Division One Champions (1) – 2018 Group winners (1) – 2022; shared (1): 2023
See also Middlesex County Cricket Club Sunrisers (women's cricket)
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