# Suffolk Women cricket team

The Suffolk Women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for the English historic county of Suffolk. They play their home games at various grounds across the county, including Wamil Way, Mildenhall and Woolpit CC, Woolpit. They are captained by Natalie Samuels. In 2019, they played in Division Three of the final season of the Women's County Championship, and have since competed in the Women's Twenty20 Cup. They are partnered with the regional side Sunrisers.

## History

Suffolk Women joined the county system in 2007, competing in the County Challenge Cup, the lower tier of the Women's County Championship, in which they lost all three of their games. The next few seasons saw similarly poor performances, but the team improved from 2011 onwards, and Suffolk topped Division 4 North & East for three consecutive seasons in 2012, 2013 and 2014, missing out on promotion in play-offs in the first two instances, before finally achieving Division 3 status in 2014, beating Cornwall in a play-off by 61 runs. However, Suffolk were relegated in 2015 and have since only played in the lowest tier of the Championship, missing out on promotion in a play-off once again in 2018.
In the Women's Twenty20 Cup, Suffolk have similarly played in the lower tiers of the competition, but did manage to gain promotion to Division South 2 in 2011, and in 2016 they topped Division 4A, going through the season unbeaten. In 2021, they competed in the East Group of the Twenty20 Cup, finishing 3rd with 4 victories. Suffolk batter Imogen Sidhu was the leading run-scorer across the whole competition, with 293 runs including 4 half-centuries. In 2022, they won their group of the Twenty20 Cup, finishing second in the initial group stage before beating Cambridgeshire and Essex on the group Finals Day to emerge victorious. They also began competing in the East of England Women's County Championship in 2022, and won the competition, winning five of their six matches. They finished bottom of their group in the 2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup, and finished third in the East of England Women's County Championship. In 2024, the side finished 8th in their group in the Twenty20 Cup and 5th in their group in the new ECB Women's County One-Day tournament.

## Players
### Current squad

Based on appearances in the 2023 season.
| Name | Nationality | 2023 Appearances | 2023 Appearances | Notes |
| Name | Nationality | WT20 | EoE | Notes |
| Natalie Samuels | England | 4 | 3 | Club captain |
| Jess Board | England | 0 | 3 | |
| Amelie Clarke | England | 6 | 5 | |
| Emily Cunningham | New Zealand | 4 | 4 | |
| Emma Howard | England | 1 | 0 | |
| Sophie Hughes | England | 6 | 5 | |
| Olivia Hyndman | England | 5 | 4 | |
| Olivia Locke | England | 0 | 2 | |
| Lara Neild | England | 6 | 4 | |
| CJ Oastler | England | 3 | 5 | Wicket-keeper |
| Maddie Reynolds | England | 6 | 0 | |
| Imogen Sidhu | England | 6 | 5 | |
| Isobel Sidhu | England | 6 | 4 | |
| Poppy Sidhu | England | 6 | 5 | |
| Sophie Singer | England | 5 | 1 | |
| Lauren Swinburne | England | 5 | 4 | |
| Petra Tweedy | England | 1 | 3 | |

## Seasons
### Women's County Championship

| Season | Division | League standings | League standings | League standings | League standings | League standings | League standings | League standings | League standings | Notes |
| Season | Division | P | W | L | T | A/C | BP | Pts | Pos | Notes |
| 2007 | County Challenge Cup G3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4th | |
| 2008 | Division 5 L&E | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4th | |
| 2009 | Division 5 S&E | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 25 | 3rd | |
| 2010 | Division 5E | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 30 | 4th | |
| 2011 | Division 5E | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 47 | 2nd | |
| 2012 | Division 4 N&E | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 54 | 1st | Lost promotion playoff |
| 2013 | Division 4 N&E | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 67 | 1st | Lost promotion playoff |
| 2014 | Division 4 N&E | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 70 | 1st | Promoted |
| 2015 | Division 3 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 38 | 9th | Relegated |
| 2016 | Division 4 N&W | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 55 | 2nd | |
| 2017 | Division 3D | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 42 | 3rd | |
| 2018 | Division 3D | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 92 | 1st | Lost promotion playoff |
| 2019 | Division 3B | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 45 | 5th | |

### Women's Twenty20 Cup

| Season | Division | League standings | League standings | League standings | League standings | League standings | League standings | League standings | League standings | Notes |
| Season | Division | P | W | L | T | A/C | NRR | Pts | Pos | Notes |
| 2009 | Division 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +0.71 | 4 | 2nd | |
| 2010 | Division S3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | −2.29 | 0 | 3rd | |
| 2011 | Division S3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +1.06 | 2 | 1st | Promoted |
| 2012 | Division S2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | −6.30 | 0 | 4th | |
| 2013 | Division S2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | −2.76 | 0 | 4th | |
| 2014 | Division 4A | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | −0.39 | 8 | 5th | |
| 2015 | Division 4A | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +0.14 | 12 | 2nd | |
| 2016 | Division 4A | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0.88 | 24 | 1st | |
| 2017 | Division 3C | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | −0.08 | 12 | 4th | |
| 2018 | Division 3C | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | −1.49 | 12 | 5th | |
| 2019 | Division 3B | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | −0.46 | 8 | 7th | |
| 2021 | East | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | +0.39 | 18 | 3rd | |
| 2022 | Group 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | –0.23 | 16 | 2nd | Group winners |
| 2023 | Group 7 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | –1.83 | 1 | 4th | |
| 2024 | Group 3 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | –0.79 | 40 | 8th | |

### ECB Women's County One-Day

| Season | Group | League standings | League standings | League standings | League standings | League standings | League standings | League standings | League standings | Notes |
| Season | Group | P | W | L | T | A/C | BP | Pts | Pos | Notes |
| 2024 | Group 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5th | |

## Honours

* Women's Twenty20 Cup:
** Group winners (1) – 2022