Welcome to the home of Gunnersbury WCC
Website updates: Last updated 18 June 2025
* News page updated with a link to newsletter covering highlights of the 2025 season - news and pics - so far.
* Honours Boards updated with new 'baggy green' cap awards.
* A copy of the Wisden Almanack 2025 article about Gunns added to 'Centenary' page.
* 'Centenary' sub-menu page added to access interview with Anne Sanders - our oldest Gunn!
* 2025 Fixtures - page has been updated with league and competition entries, a link to Gunns league fixtures in Play-Cricket, as well as a document showing all 2025 season matches.
*2025 Junior (U18) & Senior Membership Forms are available on the Membership page.
* 'Centenary' page has been updated - further details of related items, events, and fixtures will be updated as they become known.
* 'Policy Docs' - updates to Social Media, Safeguarding Policy, Anti-Bullying, Showering/Changing, and ECB Anti-DIscrimination added.
* Go to the 'Kit' page to see the new shirt design for 2025.
Gunns journey to the ECB T20 Club Cup final 2024
Gunns in their own words - video by Esther de Lange
We are a women's cricket club, originally established in 1925, and one of the early teams leading the way in developing women players of all standards up to county and international levels.
Whilst originally based in Gunnersbury, West London, our current home ground is in North London at
Old Elizabethans CC, Gypsy Corner, Mays Lane, Barnet EN5 2AG - England.
Link to OE CC website:
Our membership is diverse and welcoming, and always looking to grow.
Find more details about the club and its history under the About menu option.
Building the Gunns squad for the future!
This is a shout-out to players, parents, and anyone who is interested in joining us!
If you or someone you know would like a try out or to join Gunns, then please get in touch with us through our email address: gunnswcc@hotmail.com
There are opportunities to play competitively, as well as for fun, social cricket.
26th July 1745: First ever women’s cricket match played near Guildford
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The match was reported in The Reading Mercury and featured teams from the villages of Bramley and Hambledon. The newspaper made the point that all the players were dressed in all white, but those from Bramley wore blue ribbons while the Hambledon ‘maids’ wore red. Although the identities of the players are unknown the final result, which saw the team from Hambledon beat Bramley with a score of 127 to 119, was recorded. Furthermore the article highlighted that, ‘the girls bowled, batted, ran and catched as well as most men could do in that game.’ The majority of early women’s cricket matches were local fixtures played in the communities around Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey. Often associated with heavy betting, the sport quickly spread and gained a level of respectability in 1777 when Elizabeth Smith-Stanley, the Countess of Derby, organised a match in which upper-class women made up the two teams. Despite the growing popularity of women’s cricket, the first women's cricket club wasn’t formed until 1887. The White Heather Club was established in North Yorkshire, and was followed three years later by the chronologically-confusingly named Original English Lady Cricketers. However, a national organisation for women’s cricket wasn’t established until 1926 when the Women’s Cricket Association was founded. Under its guidance the England team played its first series of test matches in Australia in 1934-5. The Women’s Cricket Association was eventually absorbed by the England and Wales Cricket Board in 1998.Education
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