County Junior Weekend

from Shirley Pickering - 

Leicestershire hosted the County Junior weekend with 7 other Counties visiting.

Durham, Lancashire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Warwickshire all made the trip to us.

Every team had 7 matches to get through, starting at just after 9 on the Saturday to finishing at 4pm on the Sunday, so a full on long weekend.

Leicestershire were newly promoted from last season to division1.

With a couple of changes to the players (from last season) through age, our team were Kai Bhakta, Khaalid Patel, Dillon Kearney, Niam Kotecha (debut), Catherine Lv, Maisey Phillips and Alice Fairclough (Debut) were the team.

 

The standard of play throughout was exceptional, as you would expect for Div 1.

Leicestershire won 1, drew 2 and took points from their other 4 matches.

Player of the weekend for Leicestershire was Catherine Lv winning all of her matches 100%

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Rose Bowl Win for Leicester Ladies!

from John Bowness - 

This is the sixth time Leicester has won this event and Karen has featured in all six which I think is remarkable.  The six details are listed below and click here for Karen's report

and here for John's

 

1979/80: Karen Smith, Anita Stevenson, Suzanne Hunt.

1980/81: Karen Smith, Anita Stevenson, Suzanne Hunt.

1982/83: Karen Smith, Suzanne Hunt, Julie Revell.

      Karen was still Rogers back then.

2008/09: Karen Smith, Jose Bongers.

2015/16: Karen Smith, Lois Peake.

2024/25: Karen Smith, Catherine Lv.

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As mentioned in John's report above, also doing well, and featuring Catherine yet again were the Junior Girls who won the Bronze medal in the Bromfield Trophy, Catherine combining with Roma Morjaria who signs off a distinguished junior level as she moves into the senior ranks this coming season.