County

The performance end of Women and Girls cricket is focused on greatly through each winter. All squads have huge potential and the winter programme is designed very much around unlocking this potential to see the county squads achieve the performances they are capable of.

Charlie Walker bowling for Gloucestershire Women vs. Dorset

Gloucestershire run the following county sides:

• Under 11 Girls
• Under 13 Girls Development
• Under 13 Girls
• Under 15 Girls
• Under 17 Girls
• Senior Women

All squads receive 10 weeks of coaching over the winter which recently has been based at the County Ground and Castle School in Thornbury, these programmes run from January-March. In addition to the winter coaching, all squads have either outdoor practices throughout the summer to supplement the match fixtures or they have additional friendlies built into the programme to provide more match opportunities and experience.

Gloucestershire Women and Girls sides are seeing a huge improvement in terms of results and quality of cricket year on year and this is no surprise to the GCB after the appointment of This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . With the continuing hard work of all the girls involved in the programme and the efforts of the coaching team – the winning trend looks set to continue.

Trials for the 2011 season will occur in October 2010 with the winter programme commencing in January for the selected girls. The trial nomination letter can be found attached below – nominations need to be received no later than Friday 27th August.

Nomination Letter