Leading players in the Gisborne Association’s women’s cricket competition are making a further step forward with inaugural matches against their Ballarat and Castlemaine counterparts.
Gisborne Cricket Club’s top all-rounder Brianna Woodham will captain the GDCA women’s side in the match against Ballarat on Wednesday evening.
Wallan’s Megan Farrell is vice-captain in this historic match to be played from 6.15pm at the Alfredton No. 1 oval in Ballarat.
The second match for the GDCA players is to take place against Castlemaine association on Wednesday, February 19. The venue is yet to be confirmed.
The other players lining up against Ballarat include Taylah Logie (Kilmore), Kim Bessell and Brittany Ward (Bacchus Marsh), Sarah Bamford and Ashley Gillard (Bacchus Marsh), Ninna Harbinson (Gisborne), Nikola Cox (Malmsbury), Anita McMaster and Luzanne Paellitis (both Lancefield), Terry Hayden and Kia Montgomery (Wallan).
Lancefield’s Nat and Brooke Jeffrey, Ruby Watts (Gisborne) and Emily Wilkinson (Macedon) are starters for the GDCA in the follow-up match against Castlemaine association.
GDCA president Simon Ovenden said the move into representative women’s cricket was an important one for the local association.
Many top women players around Victoria do not always have the chance to play representative cricket.
Ovenden and the GDCA executive and selectors wish the selected players well in the matches against Ballarat and Castlemaine.
