6th August 2018
| Mallory Gray
Cricket flourishing across Wales
Great first experiences and Elite success
Thousands of people across Wales, young and old, have had a great first experience of cricket this
summer.
Women’s cricket ... ‘The quiet revolution in Wales’
Whilst the sun has shone, over a 1000 new women and girls, across a large range of clubs, have been
enjoying softball festivals. Participants have enjoyed short and social games organised in multi team
festivals which have been very colourful and exciting events. The festivals have been organised for
open age participants and under 14’s, in the drive to attract more females to play cricket. Wales is
top of the table in relation to counties in England in terms of engaging people to play.
On the performance side Wales’ Women have gained promotion to the top division of the ECB T20
competition for the very first time. This young and exciting team supported by Wales’ first overseas
player Rachel Priest from New Zealand, also narrowly missed out on promotion in the ECB 50 over
competition.
All Stars a huge success in Wales
Not to be outdone by this, 3,500 five, six and seven year olds have also been having their fun in the
sun. All Stars Cricket started in 2017 and again this summer Wales has been leading the way (second
only to Yorkshire) in attracting a colossal number of very young children to an exciting first
experience of the game. Clubs have been inundated with children wearing their pale blue tops, caps
and also wielding their own bat and ball, as the aim is to put a bat and ball into the hands of more
children.
Two short films capture the excitement and momentum gained this summer in 2018. Cricket Wales
plans to build on this next summer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/44633047 all stars https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/44626995 women’s cricket ... ‘The quiet revolution in Wales’
If you would like to get involved in the remaining softball festivals click here
https://www.ecb.co.uk/course-finder?counties=Cricket%20Wales&startDate=2018-07-
31&endDate=2018-10-31&dateRange=three-months