Durham Women cricket team

The Durham Women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for the English historic county of Durham. They play their home games at various grounds across the county, including Green Lane Cricket Ground, Durham and Park Drive, Hartlepool.^[1] They competed in the Women's County Championship from 2001 to 2019 and in the Women's Twenty20 Cup from 2009 to 2019.^[2] In 2020, it was announced that Durham was merging its team with Northumberland, becoming North East Warriors.^[3] They wre partnered with the regional side Northern Diamonds.^[4]

Durham Women

Team information
Founded	Unknown First recorded match: 1930
Home ground	Various Including Green Lane Cricket Ground, Durham
History
WCC wins	0
T20 Cup wins	0
Official website	Durham Cricket

In 2024, Durham were selected as one of the eight counties to become a 'tier 1' professional women's cricket side from 2025, with all home matches to be played at the Riverside Ground.^[5]

History

1930–2000: Early History

Durham Women played their first recorded match in 1930, against Lancashire and Cheshire Women, which they won by 16 runs.^[6] Over the following years, Durham played various one-off matches against surrounding teams, often combined with Northumberland Women.^[7] In the early 2000s, Durham also played various games against Scotland Women.^[8]

2001– : Women's County Championship

In 2001, Durham Women played in the Emerging Counties competition, which they won, thereby earning promotion to the Women's County Championship.^[9] In their first season, they finished 5th in Division 3, but were promoted the following season.^[10] After being relegated in 2004, Durham then began a steady climb through the divisions, reaching Division 2 in 2012, where they remained for four seasons.^[11] Subsequent years saw them challenging for promotion again, just missing out in 2017, losing a play-off against Northamptonshire, but achieving it in 2018, beating Oxfordshire by 85 runs.^[12][13] In 2019, however, they finished bottom of Division Two.^[14] In the Women's Twenty20 Cup, meanwhile, Durham were a consistent Division Two side, achieving their best finish, 2nd, in 2019.^[15] In 2021, they competed as a joint team with Northumberland, as North East Warriors, after the two teams merged in 2020.^[3]

Players

Notable players

Players who have played for Durham and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):^[16]

• Kari Carswell (2001)
• Danielle Hazell (2009)
• Morna Nielsen (2010)
• Louise McCarthy (2010)
• Becky Glen (2018)
• Aaliyah Alleyne^{[lower-alpha 1]} (2019)
• Elysa Hubbard (2022)

Seasons

Women's County Championship

Season	Division	League standings[17]								Notes
		P	W	L	T	A/C	BP	Pts	Pos
2001	Emerging Counties	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	1st	Promoted
2002	Division 3	5	1	2	0	2	20	54	5th
2003	Division 3	5	3	1	1	0	40.5	82.5	1st	Promoted
2004	Division 2	5	0	5	0	0	23	23	6th	Relegated
2005	County Challenge Cup G1	3	3	0	0	0	28	64	2nd
2006	County Challenge Cup G1	3	2	1	0	0	4	44	2nd
2007	County Challenge Cup G4	3	1	1	0	1	4	39	2nd
2008	Division 5N	3	2	1	0	0	2	42	2nd	Promoted
2009	Division 4	10	8	2	0	0	5	165	2nd
2010	Division 4	9	4	4	0	1	39	79	5th
2011	Division 4	10	7	2	0	1	61	131	1st	Promoted
2012	Division 2	8	0	5	0	3	15	15	9th
2013	Division 2	8	1	5	0	2	26	36	9th
2014	Division 2	8	2	6	0	0	35	55	7th
2015	Division 2	8	3	5	0	0	38	68	8th	Relegated
2016	Division 3	8	6	1	0	1	42	102	2nd
2017	Division 3A	6	5	0	0	1	26	76	1st	Lost promotion playoff
2018	Division 3A	6	5	1	0	0	42	92	1st	Promoted
2019	Division 2	7	1	6	0	0	36	46	8th	Relegated

Women's Twenty20 Cup

Season	Division	League standings[18]								Notes
		P	W	L	T	A/C	NRR	Pts	Pos
2009	Division 6	3	0	0	0	3	–	3	1st
2010	Division M&N 2	3	0	2	0	1	−1.73	1	4th	Relegated
2011	Division M&N 3	3	2	1	0	0	+1.00	4	2nd	Lost promotion play-off
2012	Division M&N 3	3	1	2	0	0	−1.27	2	3rd
2014	Division 2B	4	1	3	0	0	−2.99	4	7th
2015	Division 2	8	2	5	0	1	−0.55	9	7th
2016	Division 2	7	0	6	0	1	−2.48	1	8th
2017	Division 2	8	3	5	0	0	−0.21	12	6th
2018	Division 2	8	5	3	0	0	−0.10	20	4th
2019	Division 2	8	5	3	0	0	+0.54	20	2nd

See also

• Durham County Cricket Club
• North East Warriors
• Northern Diamonds

Notes

1. Alleyne has represented both the West Indies and Barbados in international cricket.

References

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