The Jersey women's cricket team is the team that represents the
Crown dependency
The Crown Dependencies are three offshore island territories in the British Islands that are self-governing possessions of the British Crown: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey, both located in the English Channel and toge ...
of
Jersey
Jersey ( ; ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an autonomous and self-governing island territory of the British Islands. Although as a British Crown Dependency it is not a sovereign state, it has its own distinguishing civil and gov ...
in international
women's cricket
Women's cricket is the team sport of cricket when played by woman, women. Its
Laws of cricket, rules are almost identical to those in the game played by men, the main change being the use of a smaller cricket ball, ball. Women's cricket is b ...
matches. They became an
affiliate member of the
International Cricket Council
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the global Sports governing body, governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from Australia, England, and South Africa. In 1965, the body wa ...
(ICC) in 2005, and an associate member in 2007.
History
In 2012, Jersey won the European Women's Cricket Festival hosted in
Utrecht
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, defeating
Germany
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in the final.
In April 2018, the ICC granted full
Women's Twenty20 International
Women's Twenty20 international (WT20I) is the shortest form of women's international cricket. A women's Twenty20 international is a 20 overs-per-side cricket match between two of the International Cricket Council (ICC) members. The very firs ...
(WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all
Twenty20
Twenty20 (abbreviated T20) is a shortened format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the county cricket, inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two t ...
matches played between Jersey women and other
ICC members after 1 July 2018 have the full WT20I status.
Jersey played their first
WT20I on 31 May 2019, losing to neighbours
Guernsey
Guernsey ( ; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; ) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy. It is the largest island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes five other inhabited isl ...
by seven wickets in the
2019 T20 Inter-Insular Cup at
College Field, Saint Peter Port.
They got their first WT20I win later that year when they defeated
Norway
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by seven wickets on 1 August on day two of the
2019 France Women's T20I Quadrangular Series
The 2019 France Women's T20I Quadrangular Series was a women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) cricket tournament held in Nantes, France, from 31 July to 3 August. The participants were the women's national sides of France women's national cricket ...
held in
Nantes
Nantes (, ; ; or ; ) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. The city is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, sixth largest in France, with a pop ...
. With four victories and two defeats, Jersey finished second behind hosts
France
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in the tournament which also included
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
. Jersey's squad at the event featured several players still at school including
Nia Greig
Nia Charlotte Greig (born 21 June 2008) is cricketer from Jersey. Having made her debut for the Jersey women's cricket team aged just 11 years and 40 days old, she holds the world record for being the youngest person to play international cricke ...
who, aged just 11 years and 40 days, became the youngest-ever international cricketer when she played in the islanders' opening match against the French.
Trinity Smith
Trinity Smith (born 2 August 2004) is a cricketer who plays for the Jersey women's cricket team. She is the first Jersey woman to score a half-century in a WT20I. Smith is also the first player from the island - male or female - to be nominate ...
scored the first WT20I half-century for Jersey on 6 May 2022, hitting 59 not out off 43 balls against
Spain
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at the
2022 France Women's T20I Quadrangular Series
The 2022 France Women's T20I Quadrangular Series was a women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) cricket tournament that was held in Dreux, France, from 5 to 8 May 2022. The participants were the women's national sides of France, Austria, Jersey an ...
. Unbeaten throughout, Jersey won the tournament in
Dreux
Dreux () is a Communes of France, commune in the Eure-et-Loir Departments of France, department in northern France.
Geography
Dreux lies on the small river Blaise (river), Blaise, a tributary of the Eure (river), Eure, about 35 km north of Cha ...
which also included France and Austria.
The following month, Jersey won the newly-expanded
Women's T20I Inter-Insular Cup winning all three matches at home against Guernsey.
In January 2023, it was announced that Jersey had been chosen to host the inaugural
2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier
The 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier was a cricket tournament that formed part of the qualification process for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup. In an expanded qualification pathway for women's cricket in Europe, this was the fir ...
division two tournament to be staged in May and June.
At the event, the islanders finished third out of six teams to narrowly miss out on progressing to the next stage of qualification. During the competition,
Chloe Greechan became the first Jersey woman to take a
five-wicket haul in WT20Is when she bagged 5/4 in a 108-run win against
Sweden
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on 2 June 2023.
Later that month, Jersey played Guernsey in the 2023 edition of the
Women's T20I Inter-Insular Cup at
King George V Sports Ground in
Castel. For the second successive year they swept the contest 3-0 with the highlight being the third match where they scored their highest total in a WT20I to date - 196/3 - before dismissing the hosts for 39 to win by 157 runs which was a new record for their biggest winning margin.
Jersey retained the WT20I Inter-insular Cup for a third year in a row in 2024, winning a one-off match at
Grainville Cricket Ground
Grainville Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in Saint Saviour, Jersey.
History
The first recorded match held on the ground came in 1988 when Jersey played the Hampshire Second XI. The ground has since been the venue of a number of internat ...
in
St Saviour by 104 runs. Put into bat, the islanders' scored 157 all out with
Charlie Miles making 68 off 42 balls, before they dismissed Guernsey for just 53 as Sophia Hanson took 3/7.
In December 2024, Jersey won the inaugural
T10 European Cricket Championship Challenger Division, going unbeaten throughout the competition in Spain and defeating
Germany
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by 15 runs in the final. They followed this success up by sweeping a two-match WT20I series against
Gibraltar
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at
Europa Sports Park
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The facility is home to the Gibraltar national rugby union team, as well as other sports such as cric ...
, with winning margins of eight-wickets and nine-wickets respectively.
In April 2025, Jersey won the
Cyprus WT20I Quadrangular Series, topping the table with six victories from six matches at the event which also included the hosts,
Denmark
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and the
Isle of Man
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.
In May 2025, Jersey finished third at the
2025 Women's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier Division Two in
Rome
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, recording two wins from their five matches to once again miss out on progressing to the next stage of the competition.
On 5 July 2025, Jersey defeated Guernsey by 89 runs under the
DLS method in a rain-affected match in Castel to claim the WT20I Inter-Insular Cup for a fourth successive year.
Records and statistics
International Match Summary — Jersey Women
''Last updated 5 July 2025''
Twenty20 International
* Highest team total: 214/4 v
Denmark
Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
on 18 April 2025 at
Happy Valley Ground,
Episkopi.
* Highest individual score: 77, Analise Merritt v
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...
on 25 May 2025 at
Roma Cricket Ground
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,
Rome
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.
* Best individual bowling figures: 5/4,
Chloe Greechan v
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
on 2 June 2023 at
FB Playing Fields
FB Playing Fields or Florence Boot Fields is a multi-purpose stadium in the parish of Saint Clement, Jersey, St. Clement, Jersey. The grounds are named after Benefactor (law), benefactor Florence Boot (1863 - 1952) who was the Jersey-born wife ...
,
St Clement.
T20I record versus other nations
''Records complete to WT20I #2389. Last updated 5 July 2025.''
Tournament history
ICC Women's World Cup
ICC Women's World T20
ICC Women's World Twenty20 Europe Qualifier
Women's European Cricket Championship
Cricket at Summer Olympics Games
ICC Women's T20 Champions Trophy
See also
*
Jersey Cricket Board
Jersey Cricket Board is the official governing body of the sport of cricket in Jersey. Jersey Cricket Board is Jersey's representative at the International Cricket Council (ICC) and has been a member since 2005 and an associate member since 200 ...
*
List of Jersey cricketers
*
List of Jersey women Twenty20 International cricketers
References
External links
Cricinfo Jersey
{{National sports teams of Jersey
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Women's national cricket teams
Cricket
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Jersey in international cricket
Women's sport in Jersey
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National sports teams established in 2019