The Huntingdonshire Women's cricket team is the women's representative

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team for the English historic county of

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. They play their home games at Cricketfield Lane in

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, and are captained by Emily Banks. In the

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, as Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Women, but the two counties played separately in the

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, and Cambridgeshire have competed individually in the Twenty20 tournament since. In

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, Huntingdonshire re-joined the

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, after playing in the East of England Championship in 2020. They are partnered with the regional side Sunrisers.

History

Huntingdonshire played their first recorded match in 1887, against

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. In 2009, Huntingdonshire joined the

and in 2010 joined the

Women's County Championship The Women's County Championship, known since 2014 as the Royal London Women’s One-Day Cup,Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Women. In 2014, however, in the Twenty20 Cup only, the two sides split and competed individually. Huntingdonshire finished bottom of Division Four in the

. After this, they did not compete in any national competitions until 2021, when they competed in the

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, in the East Group, finishing 5th. They finished bottom of their group in the

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, but did win one match, against Buckinghamshire. They have also competed in the regional East of England Championship since 2020, with their best finish coming in their first season, when they finished third in the 45-over competition.

Players

Current squad

Based on appearances in the 2022 season.

Seasons

Women's Twenty20 Cup

References