The England women's under-19 cricket team represents England and Wales in international under-19 women's cricket. The team is administrated by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
The team played their first official matches at the 2023 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup, the first ever international women's under-19 cricket competition, in which they reached the final, where they lost to India.
History Since 2000, English Under-19 cricket teams have been formed to play matches against other national age-group and development teams. These matches carried no formal ICC designation.
The inaugural Women's Under-19 World Cup was scheduled to take place in January 2021, but was postponed multiple times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament eventually took place in January 2023 in South Africa. As a Full Member of the ICC, England qualified automatically for the tournament.
England announced their 15-player squad for the tournament on 18 October 2022. Chris Guest, Head Coach of The Blaze, was chosen as Head Coach of the team for the tournament, assisted by Laura Marsh and Darren Franklin. Grace Scrivens was later named as captain of the team. The team went unbeaten throughout the tournament to reach the final, but lost to India in the final by 7 wickets. England captain Grace Scrivens was named Player of the Tournament.
Recent call-ups The table below lists all the players who have been selected in recent squads for England under-19s. Currently, this only includes the squad for the 2023 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup.
Name Birth date Role Batting style Bowling style Team Most Recent Call-up Bowler Right-handed Right-arm medium Central Sparks 2023 World Cup Bowler Right-handed Right-arm leg break Central Sparks 2023 World Cup Bowler Right-handed Right-arm leg break The Blaze 2023 World Cup All-rounder Right-handed Right-arm off break North West Thunder 2023 World Cup All-rounder Right-handed Right-arm medium Western Storm 2023 World Cup All-rounder Right-handed Right-arm medium South East Stars 2023 World Cup Bowler Right-handed Right-arm off break Northern Diamonds 2023 World Cup All-rounder Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Central Sparks 2023 World Cup Batter Right-handed Right-arm medium Central Sparks 2023 World Cup Bowler Right-handed Right-arm medium Northern Diamonds 2023 World Cup All-rounder Left-handed Right-arm off break Sunrisers 2023 World Cup Wicket-keeper Right-handed – North West Thunder 2023 World Cup All-rounder Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Western Storm 2023 World Cup Bowler Right-handed Left-arm medium South East Stars 2023 World Cup Wicket-keeper Right-handed Right-arm off break Northern Diamonds 2023 World Cup
Tournament history A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within England +Key Champions Runners-up Semi-finals
Under-19 Women's World Cup England's U19 World Cup recordYear Result 2023Runner-up2nd1676100Total1 title 1676100
Records and statistics
- Format M W L T D/NR Inaugural matchWomen's under-19 Twenty20 Internationals 760 0015 January 2023
+Records against other national teamsOpponent M W L T NR First match First win1100027 January 2023 27 January 20231010029 January 2023 1100021 January 2023 21 January 2023 Pakistan 11 0 0 017 January 2023 17 January 20231100025 January 2023 25 January 2023 11 0 0 015 January 2023 15 January 2023 11 0 0 019 January 2023 19 January 2023
Leading runs scorers
RankPlayerRuns1Grace Scrivens2932Niamh Holland1383Seren Smale 121
Leading wickets takers
RankPlayerWickets1Hannah Baker102Grace Scrivens93Ellie Anderson8
Highest individual innings
RankPlayerScoreOppositionDate1Grace Scrivens9316 January 20232Liberty Heap6419 January 20233Niamh Holland5915 January 2023
Best individual bowling figures
RankPlayerFiguresOppositionDate1Ellie Anderson5/1225 January 20232Grace Scrivens4/215 January 20233Hannah Baker3/921 January 2023
Highest team totals
RankDateTotalAgainstRef121 January 2023207/2215 January 2023199/4119 January 2023183/5
Lowest team totals
RankDateTotalAgainstRef129 January 202368 all out227 January 202399 all out
References