The Suffolk Women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for the English historic county of Suffolk. They play their home games at various grounds across the county, including Wamil Way, Mildenhall and Woolpit CC, Woolpit. They are captained by Natalie Samuels. 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 Sunrisers.
History Suffolk Women joined the county system in 2007, competing in the County Challenge Cup, the lower tier of the Women's County Championship, in which they lost all three of their games. The next few seasons saw similarly poor performances, but the team improved from 2011 onwards, and Suffolk topped Division 4 North & East for three consecutive seasons in 2012, 2013 and 2014, missing out on promotion in play-offs in the first two instances, before finally achieving Division 3 status in 2014, beating Cornwall in a play-off by 61 runs. However, Suffolk were relegated in 2015 and have since only played in the lowest tier of the Championship, missing out on promotion in a play-off once again in 2018.
In the Women's Twenty20 Cup, Suffolk have similarly played in the lower tiers of the competition, but did manage to gain promotion to Division South 2 in 2011, and in 2016 they topped Division 4A, going through the season unbeaten. In 2021, they competed in the East Group of the Twenty20 Cup, finishing 3rd with 4 victories. Suffolk batter Imogen Sidhu was the leading run-scorer across the whole competition, with 293 runs including 4 half-centuries. In 2022, they won their group of the Twenty20 Cup, finishing second in the initial group stage before beating Cambridgeshire and Essex on the group Finals Day to emerge victorious. They also began competing in the East of England Women's County Championship in 2022, and won the competition, winning five of their six matches. They finished bottom of their group in the 2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup, and finished third in the East of England Women's County Championship. In 2024, the side finished 8th in their group in the Twenty20 Cup and 5th in their group in the new ECB Women's County One-Day tournament.
Players Current squad Based on appearances in the 2023 season. Name Nationality 2023 Appearances Notes Natalie Samuels 4 3 Club captainJess Board 0 3 Amelie Clarke 6 5 Emily Cunningham 4 4 Emma Howard 1 0 Sophie Hughes 6 5 Olivia Hyndman 5 4 Olivia Locke 0 2 Lara Neild 6 4 CJ Oastler 3 5 Wicket-keeper Maddie Reynolds 6 0 Imogen Sidhu 6 5 Isobel Sidhu 6 4 Poppy Sidhu 6 5 Sophie Singer 5 1 Lauren Swinburne 5 4 Petra Tweedy 1 3
Seasons Women's County Championship Season Division League standings Notes P W L T A/C BP Pts Pos 2007 County Challenge Cup G3 3 0 3 0 0 4 4 4th 2008 Division 5 L&E 3 0 2 0 1 0 10 4th 2009 Division 5 S&E 3 1 2 0 0 5 25 3rd 2010 Division 5E 6 1 5 0 0 20 30 4th 2011 Division 5E 5 2 3 0 0 27 47 2nd 2012 Division 4 N&E 4 3 0 0 1 24 54 1st Lost promotion playoff 2013 Division 4 N&E 4 4 0 0 0 27 67 1st Lost promotion playoff 2014 Division 4 N&E 4 4 0 0 0 30 70 1st Promoted 2015 Division 3 8 0 6 1 1 33 38 9th Relegated 2016 Division 4 N&W 5 3 1 0 1 25 55 2nd 2017 Division 3D 4 2 2 0 0 22 42 3rd 2018 Division 3D 6 5 1 0 0 42 92 1st Lost promotion playoff 2019 Division 3B 5 2 3 0 0 25 45 5th
Women's Twenty20 Cup Season Division League standings Notes P W L T A/C NRR Pts Pos 2009 Division 8 3 2 1 0 0 +0.71 4 2nd 2010 Division S3 2 0 2 0 0 −2.29 0 3rd 2011 Division S3 2 1 1 0 0 +1.06 2 1st Promoted 2012 Division S2 3 0 2 0 1 −6.30 0 4th 2013 Division S2 3 0 3 0 0 −2.76 0 4th 2014 Division 4A 4 2 2 0 0 −0.39 8 5th 2015 Division 4A 4 3 1 0 0 +0.14 12 2nd 2016 Division 4A 6 6 0 0 0 +0.88 24 1st 2017 Division 3C 8 3 5 0 0 −0.08 12 4th 2018 Division 3C 8 3 5 0 0 −1.49 12 5th 2019 Division 3B 8 2 6 0 0 −0.46 8 7th 2021 East 8 4 2 0 2 +0.39 18 3rd 2022 Group 4 6 4 2 0 0 –0.23 16 2nd Group winners 2023 Group 7 6 0 5 0 1 –1.83 1 4th 2024 Group 3 8 1 6 0 1 –0.79 40 8th
ECB Women's County One-Day Season Group League standings Notes P W L T A/C BP Pts Pos 2024 Group 2 4 2 2 0 0 2 10 5th
Honours Women's Twenty20 Cup: Group winners (1) – 2022
See also Suffolk County Cricket Club Sunrisers (women's cricket)
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