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\"\"<\/a>On Monday 10 June we had a lively and interesting evening with 3 members and their coach from the St Albans Cricket Club Women\u2019s Cricket Team.<\/b>\u00a0 Our Club sponsors women\u2019s cricket in Hertfordshire as a lasting legacy in memory of our Member Audrey Collins OBE \u2013 Audrey was an inspirational past member and teacher at STAGS, who played cricket for England. click here to read more https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/projects\/cricket\/<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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See below for a photo of the St Albans Women\u2019s Cricket Team wearing the shirts with our logo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The evening proved to be a great opportunity for the St Albans Cricket Team to find out more about our Club’s projects and for us to hear about the challenges and successes of our local women\u2019s cricket team.<\/div>\n
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Our wonderful visitors told us how they had got into playing cricket and what kept them playing. Then India Newman, the Team Captain, brought us up to speed with progress at the Club.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Women’s Team have just finished their friendly T20 league. The main league started on Sunday 16 June with 10 games up to the 8th<\/sup>\u00a0Sept. There are home games on Sunday 16 & 23 June, Sun 14\u00a0\u00a0& 28 July\u00a0\u00a0and Sun 8 Sept. Support at their home matches would be greatly appreciated.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Cricket Club wants to build up the numbers of girls and their skills and hope to use this to develop the Women’s Team. Retention is a big challenge \u2013 there is a big drop off when girls leave school and when they go to university.<\/span><\/p>\n

There have been some great developments at the Cricket Club with a major refurbishment of the pavilion enabled with funding from the ECB and the Council and from hard work by members of the Club.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Club definitely needs to recruit more women for the Teams \u2013 there are 2 teams but they struggle to find enough players to field a Team for the League games, especially for away games. They play in the Home Counties League which includes 6 neighbouring counties and so have to travel large distances for matches. Hertfordshire is going to set up its own Women’s League next year which should help.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s a particular issue currently\u00a0\u00a0when Home Counties games clash with County games but this won\u2019t be a problem with the Hertfordshire League as the games will all be fitted into the timetable separately.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

India explained they are getting help with recruitment from Rebecca at Herts Cricket. They hope to visit schools (although not many schools offer cricket for girls), advertise via Social Media and perhaps contact the University. Currently most Team players aren\u2019t from St Albans \u2013 quite a few players are from Watford and Luton.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Club Members wore orange to introduce our Orange the World campaign – click here for more information<\/span> https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/orange-the-world\/<\/a>.\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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We explained to our visitors that we are hoping to encourage even more local organisations to join our campaign and encouraged them to think of ways they could help us to promote our “Orange St Albans” campaign and help to eliminate violence against women and girls.<\/span><\/div>\n

Chair, Barbara Saunders OBE (pictured here) thanked the Cricketers for visiting us and wished them every success.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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