Manager: Lin Martin Date founded 1937 | Official website: Kent CCC women | |
WCC wins: 7 (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016) | ||
The Kent Women’s cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for the English county of Kent. They play in Division One of the Women's County Championship, which they have won a record seven times, most recently in 2016. The team is a part of Kent County Cricket Club, one of the 18 first-class cricket playing counties.
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As of 2016 the team is based for most home matches at the County Cricket Ground, Beckenham, with a single match played at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury during the 2016 season. In the past the team has also played matches at the Polo Farm in Canterbury, a ground also used by Kent men's Second XI and Academy sides. As well as winning the 2016 County Championship the team also won the 2016 Women's County Twenty20 Championship.
Canterbury Christ Church University are the team's official sponsors.
Honours
Kent Women have won the Women's County Championship a record seven times and been runner-up five times. The team has won the Women's Twenty20 Championship three times.
Runners-up: 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2015
Current squad
As of 24 January 2017The Kent Women's squad features current or former England internationals Tammy Beaumont, Natasha Farrant, Lydia Greenway, Lauren Griffiths and Laura Marsh Greenway is also the coach of the side. During the 2016 season New Zealand international captain Suzie Bates played for the county as did former England captain Charlotte Edwards. Edwards was named one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year in 2014 and Bates was named as Wisden's Leading Women's Cricketer of the World in 2016. Edwards left Kent after the end of the 2016 season after 16 years at the county.