The Middlesex 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 are a tier two county side and play their home games at various grounds, including

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, Merchant Taylors' School and Radlett Cricket Club. They are captained by

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. They won Division 2 of the

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and won the Women's Twenty20 Cup in

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. Prior to the 2025 restructure of women's county cricket they were partnered with the regional side Sunrisers.

History

1935–1996: Early History

Middlesex Women played their first recorded match in 1935, against Civil Service Women, and went on to play various one-off games over the following years, most often against surrounding teams such as Surrey Women. They joined the

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in 1980, winning the first two titles, and winning again in 1985.

1997– : Women's County Championship

After the Area Championship ended in 1996, Middlesex Women were one of the founding teams for the

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, finishing 5th in Division Two in their first season. After being relegated to Division Three the following season, Middlesex then began a steady rise up through the divisions, finally reaching Division One for the first time in

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. From here, they remained a mid-table side over subsequent seasons, until they were relegated in

, the same year in which they won their first major title, the

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(after being runners-up in

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and

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). In

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, the final year of the County Championship, Middlesex won Division 2. Since 2015, Middlesex have also competed in the London Cup, in which they play a

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match against Surrey. Middlesex won the first five competitions, but Surrey have won three of the four matches played since 2020. The side has also competed in the

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since 2020. In 2021, they competed in the South East Group of the Twenty20 Cup, finishing 5th with 3 wins, and regained the London Cup, beating Surrey by 8 wickets. They won their group of the

in 2022, going unbeaten. In the

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, Middlesex finished top of their group and reached the group final, but the title was shared due to rain. In 2024, the side finished 3rd in their group in the

and 5th in their group in the new ECB Women's County One-Day tournament. They also won the Women's London Championship for the first time, winning all of their matches.

Players

Current squad

Based on appearances in the 2023 season. denotes players with international caps.

Notable players

Players who have played for Middlesex and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets): * Doris Turner (1934) *

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(1937) * Eileen Whelan (1937) * Audrey Collins (1937) *

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(1949) * Megan Lowe (1949) *

Netta Rheinberg Netta Rheinberg (24 October 1911 – 18 June 2006) was an English cricketer, journalist and administrator. She appeared in one Test match for England in 1949, against Australia. She played domestic cricket for Middlesex. Early life and educati ...

(1949) * Winifred Leech (1951) * Mary Spry (1951) * Betty Birch (1951) * Anne Sanders (1954) * Helen Sharpe (1957) *

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(1960) * Liz Amos (1961) * Margaret Jude (1963) * Bev Brentnall (1966) * Jacqueline Court (1973) * Ros Heggs (1973) *

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(1976) * Catherine Mowat (1978) * Avril Starling (1982) * Helen Stother (1982) * Gillian Smith (1986) * Lisa Nye (1988) * Debra Stock (1992) * Sandra Dawson (1993) * Chanderkanta Kaul (1993) * Shaiza Khan (1997) * Sharmeen Khan (1997) * Beth Morgan (1999) * Laura Joyce (2001) * Kate Blackwell (2005) * Isabelle Westbury (2005) *

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(2006) * Lauren Ebsary (2008) * Julie Hunter (2010) *

Fran Wilson Frances Claire Wilson (born 7 November 1991) is an English cricketer. A right handed batter and right arm off break bowler, she was born in Farnham in Surrey and plays for Birmingham Phoenix. She previously played for Somerset, Middlesex, Kent ...

(2010) *

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(2014) *

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(2015) * Alex Hartley (2016) * Abtaha Maqsood (2018) *

Sophia Dunkley Sophia Ivy Rose Dunkley (born 16 July 1998) is an English cricketer who plays for Surrey, Welsh Fire, Melbourne Stars and England. A right-handed batter and right-arm leg break bowler, she made her county debut in July 2012 for Middlesex, hav ...

(2018) * Mariko Hill (2019) * Maia Bouchier (2021) * Natasha Miles (2021) * Lauren Bell (2022) *

(2022) * Chloe Abel (2023)

Seasons

Women's County Championship

Women's Twenty20 Cup

ECB Women's County One-Day

Honours

: ** Champions (3) – 1980, 1981 & 1985 *

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: ** Division Two Champions (2) –

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

** Division Three Champions (1) –

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

: ** Division One Champions (1) –

** Group winners (1) –

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

; shared (1):

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References

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