The Hertfordshire Women's cricket team is the women's representative
cricket
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Knebworth
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and London Road,
Tring
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. They are captained by Kezia Hassall. In 2019, they played in Division Three of the final season of the
Hertfordshire Women played their first recorded match in 1935, against Civil Service Women. They went on to play various other matches throughout the 1940s and 1950s, including a match against a touring Australia side in 1951. In 1980, East Anglia Women, which included players from Hertfordshire, joined the
Women's Area Championship
The Women's Area Championship was a women's cricket competition organised by the Women's Cricket Association that ran from 1980 until 1996. It operated as a 55-over limited overs cricket competition, with teams organised into a number of groups, ...
.
2001– : Women's County Championship
Hertfordshire Women joined the
Women's County Championship
The Women's County Championship, known since 2014 as the Royal London Women’s One-Day Cup,2001, replacing East Anglia Women, finishing 5th in Division Two in their first season. After being relegated in 2003, they played in the County Challenge Cup, the tier below the County Championship, for the next four seasons. Returning to the Championship proper in
2008
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, Hertfordshire have since played in the lower divisions of the structure, achieving their best performance in
2016
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, when they won Division Four North & East.
In the Women's Twenty20 Cup, which they joined for its inaugural season in 2009, Hertfordshire have fared similarly, playing mostly in Division 3. In
2012
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, they had a chance at promotion from South Division 2, but lost to
Essex
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in the Division final, whilst they finished 2nd in Division 3C in
2017
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, with six wins from eight games. In 2020, after the county season was cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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2021
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, they won the East Group of the Twenty20 Cup, going unbeaten with 5 victories and 3 matches abandoned due to rain. They also again competed in the East of England Championship, finishing second in the 45-over competition to Buckinghamshire. They finished second in their group of the
2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup
The 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2022 Vitality Women's County T20, was the 13th edition of the Women's Twenty20 Cup, an English women's cricket Twenty20 domestic competition. It took place in April and May 20 ...
, and again finished second in the East of England Championship.
Players
Current squad
Based on appearances in the 2022 season.
Notable players
Players who have played for Hertfordshire and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):
* Sian Ruck (2009)
2021
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