Girls Pathway Update
With this Girls Pathway Update serving as a prelude for a more comprehensive piece come the end of the season, there are a couple of exciting bits of news to update on this week from our Girls Pathway.
Shristi Patil – Picked for ECB Super 4s Tournament
This week has seen 16 year old pathway cricketer – Shristi Patil participating in the ECB Super 4s Tournament at Loughborough. Shristi is progressing through Berkshire’s Pathway and continues to play for Berkshire U18s and the Women’s 1st XI while spending her first full year on the Southern Vipers Academy.
The newly introduced Super 4s competition see’s 3x ECB U19 squads come together along with an Ireland U19 squad to compete across a T20 & 50 over tournament as part of the England Women’s Cricket Pathway. The competition serves as a selection opportunity for the England U19 activity this winter which includes a tri series in Australia against the hosts and Sri Lanka.
Congratulations Shristi!
Girls U18 County Age Group Squad into ECB T20 Quarter Finals
For the second season running, the U18 Girls have qualified from their group to reach the National T20 Quarter Finals. This season, the side having gone one better and have qualified as the group winners, winning 9 out of the 10 games with Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Devon and Buckinghamshire forming part of the group.
Berkshire were one of just two National Counties that qualified for the quarter finals with Buckinghamshire also qualifying out of our group. 6 Professional Counties make up the rest of the group with Lancashire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Somerset, Northamptonshire and Middlesex also qualifying.
Our Quarter Final will take place on Sunday 31st August against Middlesex at Hornsey CC in North London. The winner of the fixture will take a place at the Finals Day at Neston CC in Cheshire on Sunday 14th September.
Middlesex will provide a really exciting test for our U18s group against a strong opposition, which will test our players skills under the pressure of a knockout competition.