Berkshire Cricket Talent Pathway Monthly Update – September
Boys U18s have reached the T20 Finals day where they will take on Cheshire in in the Semi-Final
Sahasra Gupta aged 13 made her Women’s 1st XI debut in August, opening the batting, making 42 runs.
Boys Early Engagement Programme was completed for 2026, with over 50 internal fixtures played it was action packed summer.
Team Highlights
Several standout team performances were recorded during August:
Boys U18 finished 2nd in their 3 day competition group.
Girls U18s finished top of their 50 over group, qualifying for national knockouts. Won last 16 game vs Wiltshire by 207 runs but lost in the quarter-final to Hampshire by 39 runs.
Girls U18s finished runners up in their T20 group, qualifying for national knockouts. Lost to Nottinghamshire in the quarter final by 4 wickets.
Individual Performances
A number of players delivered notable performances on the field:
Batting – Boys
- Hardik Dhallam (U14) – 136 vs Hampshire
- Satvik Saxena (U13) – 107 vs Glamorgan
- Cadyn Snijman (U15) – 92 vs Hampshire
- Samand Khan (U16) – 87* off 55 balls vs Devon (U18 T20 quarter-final!)
- Muhammad Asim (U11) 75 vs U14 CAG Girls
- Kabir Garg (U12) 60 vs U14 CAG Girls
- Matty Phillips (U12) 128 vs U13 Best of HUBs
Bowling – Boys
- Connor Lamsdale (U18) – 10-119 in the match vs Bucks (6-72 and 4-47)
- Thomas O’Connor (U15) – 5-61 vs Bucks
Batting – Girls
- Nyra Seth (U16) – 111 vs Somerset
- Sahasra Gupta (U18 – playing up as an U14) – 93* vs Wiltshire in the 50 over last 16
- Livia Sharma (U14) passed 1300 runs for Berkshire Women & Girls Pathway including 9x 50s & 1x 100 averaging 43 with the bat
Bowling – Girls
- Tanvi Ravikumar (U18 – playing up as an U16) – 6/45 vs Hampshire in the 50 over quarter final & 4-7 vs Wiltshire in the last 16
- Aanya Adhikari (U14) – 5-15 vs Hampshire & 5/35 vs Berks Boys XI
- Immi Storrar (U16) & Tanvi Ravikumar (U16) both passed 40 wickets across the pathway this summer
Hampshire Partnership
The partnership between Hampshire Cricket and Berkshire Cricket continues to provide excellent development opportunities for players across both pathways.
During August, the following Berkshire players represented Hampshire’s pathway programme:
Boys Pathway
Hardik Dhallam
Ralf Beer
Will Hamilton
Thomas Wellings
Abdullah Iqbal
Samand Khan
Girls Pathway
Molly Bulteel, Shristi Patil & Naaz Asif Iqbal all attended the ECB Super 4s Competition at Loughborough bringing the best of Academy cricket together to play across 3 teams in a series including Ireland U19s.
Molly Bulteel, Naaz Asif Iqbal, Shristi Patil, Sahasra Gupta all represented the Vipers Academy in August
Molly Bulteel, Shristi Patil & Naaz Asif Iqball all represented the Hampshire Women’s 2nd XI in August
Looking Ahead
6th September U18s Boys Finals day at Denby CC
Molly Bulteel, Shristi Patil & Naaz Asif Iqbal will all attend the School Games at Loughborough this month.
A huge thank you must go to Apple Print & Creative for their support as we complete the first year of our three-year partnership with them. As the official partner of our Talent Pathway, the AP&C logo appears on pathway player shirts, as well as signage at home matches. The partnership has allowed us to further develop our pathway programmes to give our aspiring players the best opportunity to progress within the game – thank you AP&C