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THE University of Exeter has been confirmed as one of the three partners in a South West side that will compete in the inaugural Women’s Cricket Super League this summer.
Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Somerset County Cricket Club and the University of Exeter have been grouped together as one of the six sides taking part.
Lined up against the South West side are:
• Hampshire Cricket with partners: Berkshire Cricket, Dorset Cricket Board, Isle of Wight Cricket Board, Oxfordshire Cricket, Southampton Solent University, Sussex Cricket and Wiltshire Cricket
• Lancashire County Cricket Board with partners: Lancashire County Cricket Club, Lancashire County Cricket Club Foundation
• Loughborough University
• Surrey County Cricket Club
• Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Twenty-eight different organisations expressed an interest in becoming a Women’s Cricket Super League host.
The bidding process to run a team started more than six months ago. The ECB announced the successful bidders this week.
The Women’s Cricket Super League will start this summer with the South West team competing in a twenty20 event against the other five hosts.
In future years the competition will include twenty20 and 50-over formats.
All six teams have been awarded hosting rights for a four-year period up to and including 2019.
Somerset has been the home of the England Ladies squad in the past and retains close links with the women’s game.
University of Exeter’s first team plays in the BUCS Southern Premier Division.
The team has reached the BUCS final for the past three seasons with the final being played on the Nursery Ground at Lords.
Unfortunately they lost each of those three finals to Loughborough. They did win BUCS indoor gold in 2015.
Student Freya Davies, a medium pace bowler, is in the current England academy squad and on the fringes of the international squad.
Clare Connor, ECB director of England Women’s Cricket, said a strong South West partnership is vital to the success of the new initiative.
She added: “For two rival First Class counties and a university with such a renowned sporting reputation to come together and collaborate in this way to help develop the women’s game is an exciting opportunity.
“Overall, the award process to identify the six hosts was competitive from the outset, and the interview panel was very impressed by the ambition displayed by all of the bids received.
“Our vision for the competition is to create a dynamic and high-quality domestic women’s game in England, where the world’s best players come together to drive performance standards and inspire women and girls to love cricket.
“All six of the hosts have passionately demonstrated that they share this aspiration and we are now really excited to work with them to deliver this next stage in the evolution of women’s cricket in this country.”