Cricket is a wonderful team sport. Our aim is to ensure that cricket is fun and rewarding and each child is encouraged to develop their skills at their own pace to achieve the highest standard they can. Very importantly, the social interaction that the children experience in a club environment with their peers is a huge part of the rewarding experience.

Joining
For any enquiries about joining, please contact either Kevin Davies, Club Secretary (kevinsdavies@aol.com or 07887 501055).

Match Fixtures
U8’s and U9's mixed teams and the U9’s Girls team play in softball league competitions. The U10’s play in both a hardball league and a softball league. From U11's upwards the teams play in hardball league and cup competitions.

Details of the fixtures will be circulated to parents by the junior team managers before the start of the season. Details of all team fixtures and results can be found via the website by searching under the 'Matches' and ‘Teams’ tabs.

Match Fees
There are no match fees for U8's and U9's.

From U10's upwards, for WCF League and Cup matches - £2.00 per match but for U11's to U14's Worcestershire County League matches will be £3.00 per match (where there is a paid League Umpire) or £2.00 (when there is no League Umpire).

Junior Age Group Training (from April to late August/early September)

Training Times

Sunday Morning - U8's and U9's - 10am - 12 noon. Training starts 20 April 2025.

Tuesday - U14's and U15's - 6.00 - 8.00pm starting 8 April 2025.

Wednesday - U12's - 6.30 - 8.00pm starting 23 April 2025.

Thursday - U16's and older : Encouraged to attend Senior training on Thursday 6.00-8.00pm starting 3 April 2025.

Friday - U10's, U11's and U13's - 6.00-8.00pm starting 11 April 2025.

All Stars Cricket
We are again running the highly popular and successful ECB All Stars Cricket programme for 5 to 8 year olds. This year’s programme will run for 8 consecutive Friday evenings from 6.00pm to 7.00pm starting from Friday 16th May to 4th July 2025. Please see under the separate All Stars tab for full details.

County Nominations

Each year, several players from our junior ranks are selected for their age group County Squads and an exceptional few have in the past gone on to represent the Midlands (made up of the best players from 7 counties) and we are very proud to have even had home-grown Club juniors going on to represent England U16s, England U19s and England 'A'.

Juniors Playing in Open Age Cricket
An important element of our philosophy and aims is to produce as many junior players as possible who will want to continue playing cricket and will progress through to our senior/open age teams. This starts with us giving junior players the opportunity from the age of U13 (or in some cases U12, if part of an U12 County squad) to become involved in open age cricket with the Saturday or Sunday teams. In particular, the Saturday 3rd XI and the Sunday XI are run with a large emphasis on the development of our junior players in a safe and competitive environment under the guidance and support of older players.

Our experience tells us that the sooner young players are introduced to open-age cricket, where they play cricket with adult players, the quicker they develop. We actively promote youth through all of our weekend teams as we strive to develop 1st team players of the future. We strongly encourage all children playing in age group squads from U13 upwards to make themselves available to play open-age cricket when the opportunity arises.

A copy of the Club's Policy on Junior Players in Open Age Cricket can be found under the ‘Information’ tab, under ‘Documents’.

Volunteering
Our Junior Section is run by a very committed but small team of volunteer committee members, coaches and managers. We are actively seeking more volunteers to help us deliver our junior cricket programme for the forthcoming season and beyond.

If you can offer support in any capacity (e.g. administrative, coaching support, scoring, organising, social events, firing up the BBQ on a Friday night!) and would like to get involved, please contact Stewart Ward, Junior Chairman (stewart.ward5@btinternet.com or 07392 000710) or Kevin Davies, Club Secretary (kevinsdavies@aol.com or 07887 501055).