Harold Wood Cricket Club

WOMen's and Girls Cricket

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We provide coaching and opportunities to play for all abilities and ages from 8 years old upwards.

We have the following teams playing in matches and competitions:

LADIES - in 2007 the Ladies team will be playing in the Women's Southern Cricket League, Div 4

U-15's - Lady Taverners Club Competition and friendlies

U-13's - Lady Taverners Club Competition and friendlies

U-11's - New team for 2007

Our coach of the Girls Teams, Matt Hyam, has been involved in the coaching and running of Girls Cricket in Havering and Essex for 7 years, and is the current coach of the County U-15 Squad, County Women's team and Havering District Indoor Teams.

SEVERAL OF OUR GIRLS REPRESENT ESSEX AT U-13, U-15 and U-17 AGE GROUPS

Lady Taverners U-15 National Champions 2004, 2006 and 2007

WCSL Division 4 Winners 2007
 

Below is latest news and information for our girls teams –

U-15 Girls National Champions again!!!
Harold Wood 118-0 beat Wellingborough 33-6 - Lauren 29, Elissa 27, Hannah 22, Laura 22, Cath 2-6, Rebecca 2-8
Harold Wood 93-0 beat Plympton 66-5 - Cath 27, Lauren 25, Elissa 25
Harold Wood 97-1 beat Pool CC 94-1 - Cath 26, Lauren 25, Laura 16, Hannah 15, Lyndsay 1-27

Ladies win Division 4.........

Ladies make it 2 out of 2 in the League......
A win over Shepperton plus rained off matches and a walkover mean that the 1st XI remain undefeated so far this year.
Elissa Penketh, Dani Armes, Rebecca Reid and Hannah Courtnell have scored well with the bat, whilst the wickets have been shared around with all the bowlers performing well.

U-15's are Regional Winners thanks to Bowl Out......
The U-15's progressed to the national finals of the Lady Taverners competition for the 4th consecutive year thanks to a bowl out victory.
The U-13's were unlucky not to progress in their competition by the same process.

U-15's Essex Champions.........
A win over Bentley CC in the final of the Essex Lady Taverners saw the girls progress to the Regional Finals
Full Result on Play Cricket Site

U-15's beat Wanstead..................
The U-15 Lady Taverners team beat Wanstead in the first round of the Essex Finals. 
Harold Wood 162-4
Wanstead 65a/o
See play cricket site for full result
The Girls now play away to Bentley in the Essex Final.

U-13's Win Essex Lady Taverners for the first time..............
The U-13 Girls won the Essex finals of the Lady Taverners competiton on Friday 1 June at Garon Park (Southend).
They beat Bentley CC and Kelevedon & Feering CC in the group stages and then went on to beat Wanstead CC in the final. This is the first time the U-13 girls have won in this competition following the successes of the under 15's.
They now progress to the Regional Finals on Sunday 1 July.
Team:
Zoe Quested (capt), Paige Roche, Leanne Tigg, Danielle Tighe, Anna Heywood, Tyler Dunmow, Rebecca Holyoak, Lauren Brien.
Well done girls for a great performance!!



Harold Wood CC are to host a Primary School Girls Kwik Cricket Festival at the club on Friday 15 June.
Can you help out........please contact Matt Hyam.

Women get off to a winning start................
Following 2 cancelled matches the Ladies team got their first season in the WCSL off to a great start with a win over Ashford.
See Harold Wood play cricket site for full result.

*** Harold Wood Ladies are entered into Division 4 of the Women's Southern Cricket League for 2007 ***

The league fixtures are done and are posted within the fixtures section. Under Women's 1st XI

Matches will be played on Sundays and are 35 overs a side

Contact Matt Hyam if you are interested in playing

 
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Elissa Penketh joins Dani at Junior Super Fours

Elissa was selected to play in the tournament following her good performances during the summer for the County U-15's

Lady Taverners National Finals 2006

U-15 Girls National Champions Again!!

The Wood U-15’s won this year’s National Club Competition which took place at King Edwards School, Birmingham on Sunday 13^th August. 

On a rain affected day, Harold Wood beat Lullington CC from Derbyshire in the semi final which set up a final against Bath CC, which was a repeat of the final from 2004. The weather allowed no play which meant the final would be decided by a “bowl out” – crickets equivalent to a penalty shoot out.

Lady Taverners Regional Finals 2006

U-15 Girls win to reach National Finals

HWCC Girls won the Regional Finals of the Lady Taverners U-15 Club Competition on Sunday 23rd July at Bedford School. Playing in a round robin tournament against Hayes Hurracanes, Underhill and Redoutables, the girls won 3 matches out of 3 to finish top of the group and qualify for the National Finals day for the 3rd successive year.

The first match was against Hayes Hurracanes from Kent. Hayes batted first and score 72-5 from their 10 overs. The Wood’s ground fielding was excellent, Cath Dalton with a direct hit run out led the way, and this backed up some tidy bowling. Dani Armes and Elissa Penketh picking up the wickets. The girls then set about chasing the target in fine style. Lauren Onojaife scoring 25 and retiring leaving Elissa, 24 not out and Dani, 16 not out to complete the win. HWCC finishing on 73-0 from 8 overs.

Dani Armes selected for Junior Super Fours Competition

Dani has been selected to play in this years Junior Super Fours competition. This is an U-19 Girls Regional Tournament. Dani will represent the London and East team against the sides from the South, Midlands and North regions.  Dani is joined in this team by Joanne Cook from Ardleigh Green who has played in the winning Harold Wood Girls Lady Taverners team.

U-13 Girls finish 3rd in inaugural tournament:

London Youth Games

Havering Girls put up a good performance in the finals of the London Youth Games Girls Cricket Cup at Lords Indoor School on Saturday 6 May.  The girls came 3rd in the competition out of 23 London boroughs.

Squad: Lyndsay Mair (capt), Amy Griffiths, Lauren Taylor, Jami Armes, Beth Langston, Pippa Wilson, Christina Low, Zoe Quested, Leanne Tigg.

All the girls are from our club and Upminster CC.

Indoor League

Harold Wood came 4th in the inaugural Ladies Indoor League. Finishing the League stages with a record of 4 wins and three losses they narrowly lost the 3^rd/4^th place playoff in the final over.

The squad consisted of Stacey Bysouth (capt), Dani Armes, Emma Stubbings, Rebecca Powell, Amy Mistry, Emma Honey and Gemma Dowler.

County Champs

Congratulations to the Harold Wood Girls that were part of the Essex U-15 Team that beat Warwickshire in the U-15 County Championship Final at the ECB Academy, Loughborough.

Well Done girls!! 

Lady Taverners National Finals 2005

Frustration as rain hits competition

Harold Wood Girls U-15’s went to Stowe School in Buckinghamshire on Sat 13th August to defend their National Club title.

Drawn in Group 1,three matches were to be played against Bradford CC, Plymouth Civil Service and Meir Heath.

Match 1 v Bradford CC.

Harold Wood batted first and against a good bowling attack from the Yorkshire team scored 55 for 5 from their 8 overs.  Everyone got a start without going on to a big score. Joanne Cook 10, Beth MacGregor 8 and Cath Dalton 6.

The total looked to be about 15 runs short of a good total, however the Wood girls bowling and fielding soon turned this into a winning score. Cath Dalton picked up 2 wickets, sharp close in fielding from Joanne Cook produced 2 run outs and then Joanne, Rachel Barron and Beth MacGregor picked up a wicket each.  They were also helped by 2 outstanding catches from Hannah Courtnell.  Bradford closing on 47 for 7, a win for the Wood Girls by 8 runs.

Match 2 v Plymouth

Again the Wood batted first, this time the batting never got going and in the 8 overs they only scored 39-6 against disciplined Plymouth bowling.  Stacey Bysouth and Rachel Barron with 7 each were top scorers.

The rain started as the girls began to defend this total and it began to make bowling very difficult.  They all showed great character as in what became a very heavy downpour the girls made Plymouth use 6 overs to get the total despite the ball slipping a lot.  Rachel Barron picked up a wicket and Joanne Cook only conceded 6 runs from her 2 overs.  Plymouth 40 for 1.  Lost.

This was eventually the end of the day as the heavy rain set in and caused frustration for all as the teams only completed 2 matches each and the final placings were decided on run rate with the third group matches not played and then no play offs.

Girls Qualify for National Finals

 The U-15’s qualified for the Lady Taverners National Finals again, as they came runners up in the South East Regional Finals at Bedford School on Sunday 10 July.

In what was a long day in very hot conditions the girls performed well to have a record of 3 wins and 1 loss, which put them in second place in the league behind Mote CC form Kent, but with a chance to defend their National Title.

Squad: Joanne Cook, Rachel Barron, Danielle Armes, Stacey Bysouth, Amy Harvey, Beth MacGregor, Lauren Onojaife, Catherine Dalton, Beth Langston

Results:

HWCC 94-3  Joanne Cook 29 not out, Amy Harvey 25 ret’d

Mote CC 96-2

Lost by 6 wkts

A close game to start with between the best two sides in the competition.  The Wood girls suffered with two run outs in the first over, and at the end of their 12 overs were probably 15 runs short of a winning total. Mote achieving the win with 1 over to spare.

HWCC 109-2 Lauren Onojaife 27 ret’d, Danielle Armes 26 ret’d, Beth MacGregor 20

Headstone Manor 70-3

Won by 39 runs

Back to form in the second match where a big score was always going to be enough to win.

Charlbury CC 27-6  Catherine Dalton 2-14

HWCC 29-0

Won by 8 wkts

A very good bowling performance kept the Oxfordshire team’s total to a low score and Danielle and Lauren knocked off the runs in 3 overs.

HWCC 115-1   Danielle Armes 27 ret’d, Joanne Cook 26 not out

Chilterns CC  72-6    Catherine Dalton 3-15, Beth MacGregor 2-14

Won by 43 runs

Wood Girls in Run Fest

Harold Wood Girls, Danielle Armes and Gemma Dowler, were involved in a run fest for Hall Mead School against Coopers Coburn School on Tuesday 5 July in the Essex Schools Cup Competition. 

In an 18 over match Hall Mead batted first and amassed 192 runs.  Danielle scored her first century, finishing on 102 before being retired not out in the 15^th over.  It included two sixes and sixteen fours.

Gemma also joined in the fun with a rapid 30 not out – her highest score of the season – as she continues to go from strength to strength with her batting.  Gemma and  Dani also picked up a wicket each before rain ended the match with Hall Mead winning on run rate.

A First at the Wood

The 4^th XI match on Saturday 25 June was notable for a first for Harold Wood C.C.  Danielle Armes and Stacey Bysouth both made their debuts for the 4^th XI and became the first women/girls to play league cricket for any senior eleven at the club.

Both girls acquitted themselves extremely well, with Danielle producing a good spell of bowling (unlucky not to take a wicket!) and also taking two good catches, and Stacey batting well at no.6 showing confidence and good application.