Hertfordshire Cricket

On Friday 5th May Hertfordshire hosted their first women’s Softball Cricket event of the summer at Abbots Langley Cricket Club. The event, only the second in the country to take place this year was well attended with 12 women taking part. Music was playing, special branded equipment for women’s Cricket was used, and afterwards the participants enjoyed prosecco and strawberries!

Friday night was the first of many women’s Cricket events this summer, and with the women’s World Cup hosted in England next month we are very excited about women’s cricket in Hertfordshire going forward.

The session was informal, fun, and relaxed with the aim of everyone to have a go and learn some new skills. By the end of the evening we had practised our catching, running between the wickets, bowling, and batting and we even rounded off the event by putting together the new skills learnt and playing a game of softball pair’s cricket.

If you would like to take part in one of the other festivals taking part, please contact Sam Rose for more information on sam.rose@hertscricket.org or 07725515543 and keep your eyes peeled for new dates/venues being added over the coming weeks via this link to the Womens Softball section of the website

Currently we have the following sessions upcoming;

• Monday 5th June - Abbots Langley CC
• Friday 9th June – St Margaretsbury CC
• Friday 7th July - Frogmore CC
• Friday 4th August - Stevenage CC
• Sunday 6th August – Venue TBC “Prosecco Cricket” Festival

If your club would like to host a Women’s Cricket Taster session please don’t hesitate to contact Sam on the contact details above.

Huge thanks to those clubs that have offered to host an event so far, and to the women who attended on Friday evening. We hope to see you all again at similar events throughout the summer of 2017 and beyond!