Middlesex Women cricket team

The Middlesex Women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for the English historic county of Middlesex. They are a tier two county side and play their home games at various grounds, including Lord's, Merchant Taylors' School and Radlett Cricket Club. They are captained by Saskia Horley.^[1][2] They won Division 2 of the Women's County Championship in 2019 and won the Women's Twenty20 Cup in 2018.^[3] Prior to the 2025 restructure of women's county cricket they were partnered with the regional side Sunrisers.^[4]

Middlesex Women

Personnel
Captain	Saskia Horley
Coach	Marc Broom
Team information
Founded	1935
Home ground	Various including Mill Hill School Ground
History
WCC wins	0
T20 Cup wins	1
Official website	Middlesex Cricket

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 Women's Area Championship in 1980, winning the first two titles, and winning again in 1985.^[5]

1997– : Women's County Championship

After the Area Championship ended in 1996, Middlesex Women were one of the founding teams for the Women's County Championship, beginning in 1997, finishing 5th in Division Two in their first season.^[6] 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 2011. From here, they remained a mid-table side over subsequent seasons, until they were relegated in 2018, the same year in which they won their first major title, the Twenty20 Cup (after being runners-up in 2014 and 2017). In 2019, the final year of the County Championship, Middlesex won Division 2.^[7] Since 2015, Middlesex have also competed in the London Cup, in which they play a Twenty20 match against Surrey. Middlesex won the first five competitions, but Surrey have won three of the four matches played since 2020.^[8][9] The side has also competed in the Women's London Championship since 2020.^[10] 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.^[11][12] They won their group of the Twenty20 Cup in 2022, going unbeaten.^[13] In the 2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup, Middlesex finished top of their group and reached the group final, but the title was shared due to rain.^[14] In 2024, the side finished 3rd in their group in the Twenty20 Cup and 5th in their group in the new ECB Women's County One-Day tournament.^[15][16] They also won the Women's London Championship for the first time, winning all of their matches.^[17]

Players

Current squad

Based on appearances in the 2023 season. ‡ denotes players with international caps.^[18]

Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batters
Cordelia Griffith	England	(1995-09-19) 19 September 1995 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Gemma Marriott	England	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Dual-registration with Hertfordshire
Natasha Miles ‡	Hong Kong	(1988-10-19) 19 October 1988 (age 36)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Louise Poulter	England	(1998-03-18) 18 March 1998 (age 27)	Unknown	Unknown
Isabella Routledge	England	(2002-11-02) 2 November 2002 (age 22)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
All-rounders
Chloe Abel ‡	Scotland	Unknown	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Kate Coppack	England	(1994-08-30) 30 August 1994 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Naomi Dattani	England	(1994-04-28) 28 April 1994 (age 31)	Left-handed	Left-arm medium
Mariko Hill ‡	Hong Kong	(1995-11-20) 20 November 1995 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Saskia Horley ‡	Scotland	(2000-02-23) 23 February 2000 (age 25)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Club captain
Riva Pindoria	England	Unknown	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Lucy Porter	England	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Amuruthaa Surenkumar	England	(2006-10-24) 24 October 2006 (age 18)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Wicket-keepers
Hermione Baxter-Chinery	England	February 2001 (age 24)	Unknown	–
Amara Carr	England	(1994-04-17) 17 April 1994 (age 31)	Right-handed	–
Iqraa Hussain	England	(1999-09-21) 21 September 1999 (age 25)	Unknown	–
Amelie Munday	England	Unknown	Unknown	–	Dual-registration with Devon
Bowlers
Jenny Bloefeld	England	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Anisha Dissanayake	England	Unknown	Unknown	Right-arm leg break
Bhavika Gajipra	England	Unknown	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Gayatri Gole	England	(1998-07-22) 22 July 1998 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Katie Green	England	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Abtaha Maqsood ‡	Scotland	(1999-06-11) 11 June 1999 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
Sonali Patel	England	(2003-05-23) 23 May 2003 (age 22)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Emily Thorpe	England	(1999-01-27) 27 January 1999 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
Lauren Turner	England	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown

Notable players

Players who have played for Middlesex and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):^[19]

• Doris Turner (1934)
• Joan Davis (1937)
• Eileen Whelan (1937)
• Audrey Collins (1937)
• Mary Duggan (1949)
• Megan Lowe (1949)
• Netta Rheinberg (1949)
• Winifred Leech (1951)
• Mary Spry (1951)
• Betty Birch (1951)
• Anne Sanders (1954)
• Helen Sharpe (1957)
• Esme Irwin (1960)
• Liz Amos (1961)
• Margaret Jude (1963)
• Bev Brentnall (1966)
• Jacqueline Court (1973)
• Ros Heggs (1973)
• Glynis Hullah (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)
• Jodie Fields (2006)
• Lauren Ebsary (2008)
• Julie Hunter (2010)
• Fran Wilson (2010)
• Holly Huddleston (2014)
• Catherine Dalton (2015)
• Alex Hartley (2016)
• Abtaha Maqsood (2018)
• Sophia Dunkley (2018)
• Mariko Hill (2019)
• Maia Bouchier (2021)
• Natasha Miles (2021)
• Lauren Bell (2022)
• Saskia Horley (2022)
• Chloe Abel (2023)

Seasons

Women's County Championship

Season	Division	League standings[20]								Notes
		P	W	L	T	A/C	BP	Pts	Pos
1997	Division 2	5	1	4	0	0	26	38	5th
1998	Division 2	5	1	4	0	0	26	38	6th	Relegated
1999	Division 3	5	3	2	0	0	39	75	2nd
2000	Division 3	5	3	2	0	0	40	76	2nd
2001	Division 3	4	4	0	0	0	38.5	86.5	1st	Promoted
2002	Division 2	5	0	3	0	2	20	42	5th
2003	Division 2	5	4	1	0	0	38.5	86.5	2nd
2004	Division 2	5	2	3	0	0	31.5	55.5	5th
2005	Division 3	6	2	3	0	1	36.5	71.5	2nd
2006	Division 3	6	3	2	0	1	6	74	3rd
2007	Division 3	6	2	2	0	2	7	77	2nd
2008	Division 3	6	3	3	0	0	10	70	2nd	Promoted
2009	Division 2	10	7	3	0	0	14	154	2nd
2010	Division 2	10	8	2	0	0	64	144	1st	Promoted
2011	Division 1	10	5	3	0	2	45	95	3rd
2012	Division 1	8	1	2	0	5	18	28	4th
2013	Division 1	8	2	6	0	0	45	65	7th
2014	Division 1	8	2	3	0	3	28	48	6th
2015	Division 1	8	3	4	0	1	44	74	5th
2016	Division 1	8	4	3	0	1	36	76	6th
2017	Division 1	7	3	4	0	0	46	76	5th
2018	Division 1	7	2	4	0	1	32	52	7th	Relegated
2019	Division 2	7	5	1	1	0	47	102	1st

Women's Twenty20 Cup

Season	Division	League standings[21]								Notes
		P	W	L	T	A/C	NRR	Pts	Pos
2009	Division 3	3	1	1	0	1	–0.25	3	3rd
2010	Division S1	3	1	2	0	0	–1.84	2	3rd
2011	Division S1	3	1	2	0	0	–1.52	2	3rd
2012	Division S1	3	0	2	0	1	–1.23	2	3rd
2013	Division S1	3	2	1	0	0	+0.34	8	3rd
2014	Division 1A	4	3	1	0	0	+0.31	6	2nd
2015	Division 1	8	5	3	0	0	+1.34	20	4th
2016	Division 1	7	3	2	0	2	+0.29	14	3rd
2017	Division 1	8	5	3	0	0	+0.76	20	2nd
2018	Division 1	8	7	1	0	0	+0.55	28	1st	Champions
2019	Division 1	8	2	4	0	2	–0.61	10	8th
2021	South East	8	3	4	0	1	+0.18	13	5th
2022	South East	6	6	0	0	0	+5.13	24	1st	Group winners
2023	Group 6	6	4	0	0	2	+1.34	18	1st	Shared group winners
2024	Group 3	8	4	2	0	2	+0.13	73	3rd

ECB Women's County One-Day

Season	Group	League standings[22]								Notes
		P	W	L	T	A/C	BP	Pts	Pos
2024	Group 4	4	1	3	0	0	1	5	5th

Honours

• Women's Area Championship:
  • Champions (3) – 1980, 1981 & 1985
• County Championship:
  • Division Two Champions (2) – 2010 & 2019
  • Division Three Champions (1) – 2001
• Twenty20 Cup:
  • Division One Champions (1) – 2018
  • Group winners (1) – 2022; shared (1): 2023

See also

• Middlesex County Cricket Club
• Sunrisers (women's cricket)