The Oxfordshire Women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for the English historic county of Oxfordshire. They play their home games at Akeman Street, Chesterton and are captained by Abi Currie. In 2019, they played in Division Three of the final season of the Women's County Championship, and have since competed in the Women's Twenty20 Cup. They are partnered with the regional side Southern Vipers.
History Oxfordshire Women played their first recorded match in 1948, against Buckinghamshire Women. They went on to play various one-off matches, often as a combined team with Berkshire, including games against touring Netherlands and Australia sides.
Oxfordshire joined the national county structure in 2007, competing in the County Challenge Cup, finishing bottom of their group in their first season. In the first season of the Women's Twenty20 Cup, in 2009, Oxfordshire won Division Eight with three wins from three games. They went on to become a regular Division Three side, and finished second in their group in every season between 2017 and 2019. In 2021, they competed in the South West Group of the Twenty20 Cup, and finished 5th with 2 victories. They finished second in their group of the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup. Oxfordshire bowler Chloe Westbury was the joint-second leading wicket-taker in the competition, with 13 wickets.
Oxfordshire gained promotion from Division Four of the Championship in 2012, and played in Division Three since then. Their most successful seasons came in the final years of the competition: finishing second in 2017 before topping Division 3C in both 2018 and 2019. In 2018, they lost a promotion play-off against Durham by 85 runs, whereas in 2019 there was no promotion as it was the final season of the County Championship.
In 2022, Oxfordshire joined the South Central Counties Cup, finishing second out of six teams in the inaugural edition. In 2024, the side finished 3rd in their group in the Twenty20 Cup and 8th in their group in the new ECB Women's County One-Day tournament.
Players Current squad Based on appearances in the 2023 season. denotes players with international caps. Name Nationality 2023 Appearances Notes Abi Currie 6 4 Club captain; wicket-keeperEmilia Bartram 5 4 Eleanor Bath 4 0 Aimee Diab 5 4 Sophia Hanson 1 0 Georgia Haworth 0 3 Eleanor Ingram 6 4 Wicket-keeper Laura Jacob 4 1 Lucy Johnson 1 0 Isobel Kirby 5 2 Bethan Lewis 1 0 Honor Murray 1 5 Abi Norgrove 4 3 Genevieve Porter 7 5 Georgia Prestedge 1 3 Numa Shah 4 0 Kitty Spurgeon 0 2 Zoe Soonawalla 1 1 Finty Trussler 0 5 Dual-registration with Hampshire Katie Waugh 5 5 Wicket-keeperChloe Westbury 7 5 Carla Wood 6 4 Rebecca Woodnorth 3 0
Notable players Players who have played for Oxfordshire and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):
Lauren Down (2018) Emilia Bartram (2022)
Seasons Women's County Championship Season Division League standings Notes P W L T A/C BP Pts Pos 2007 County Challenge Cup G2 3 0 2 0 1 4 14 4th 2008 Division 5 S&W 4 0 4 0 0 5 5 5th 2009 Division 5 S&W 5 2 3 0 0 8 48 4th 2010 Division 5E 6 2 4 0 0 27 47 3rd 2011 Division 5 S&W 8 3 4 0 1 42 72 3rd 2012 Division 4 S&W 4 3 0 0 1 20 50 1st Promoted 2013 Division 3 8 0 7 0 1 31 31 9th 2014 Division 3 8 2 5 1 0 40 65 6th 2015 Division 3 8 3 2 1 2 34 69 4th 2016 Division 3 8 3 4 0 1 43 73 5th 2017 Division 3B 4 3 1 0 0 28 58 2nd 2018 Division 3C 6 5 1 0 0 43 93 1st Lost promotion playoff 2019 Division 3C 5 5 0 0 0 40 90 1st
Women's Twenty20 Cup Season Division League standings Notes P W L T A/C NRR Pts Pos 2009 Division 8 3 3 0 0 0 +0.65 6 1st 2010 Division M&N 4 2 0 1 1 0 −2.47 1 3rd 2011 Division M&N 4 3 0 3 0 0 −5.30 0 4th 2012 Division M&N 4 3 2 1 0 0 +0.47 4 3rd 2013 Division M&N 4 3 1 2 0 0 −0.72 2 4th 2014 Division 3A 4 0 4 0 0 −1.72 0 7th 2015 Division 3 8 2 6 0 0 −1.51 8 7th 2016 Division 3 8 3 4 0 1 −0.14 13 5th 2017 Division 3A 8 5 1 0 2 +1.29 22 2nd 2018 Division 3A 8 5 3 0 0 +0.57 20 2nd 2019 Division 3A 8 6 2 0 0 +0.05 24 2nd 2021 South West 8 2 2 0 4 –0.10 12 5th 2022 Group 5 6 4 2 0 0 +0.29 16 2nd 2023 Group 6 6 0 6 0 0 –2.13 0 4th 2024 Group 4 8 4 4 0 0 +0.47 84 3rd
ECB Women's County One-Day Season Group League standings Notes P W L T A/C BP Pts Pos 2024 Group 3 4 1 2 0 1 0 5 8th
See also Oxfordshire County Cricket Club Southern Vipers
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