Willey Wanderers Cricket Club

💚🖤Message from the Ladies Captain Rachel Jones

⭐ Brilliant end to a great season, it’s been a really positive year for Willey ladies finishing second in our league!💥

😮‍💨We started the year with some extremely close games and have grown over the last few months into a very competitive side finishing the season today!

🤩The reduction in wides and greater consistency with the ball has been really encouraging and is something we can continue to build over winter.

⭐ We've had some stand out moments whether it be fabulous batting performances from Gemma and Cath (both having spells of having to retire not out), boundary saves from Lizzy, Jodie and Gem, run out partnerships and wickets galore. This season has been fast, fun and hot! Here's to 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣7️⃣🖤💚

👏🏼Big thank you to everyone who has played, supported, coached, scored, umpired, or helped out along the way!

🏏 Willey Ladies v Madeley Ladies
A brilliant all‑round showing from Willey this morning — disciplined bowling, sharp fielding and real control throughout the innings.

🔴The attack held Madeley to 92–5, with wickets shared across the group and every bowler contributing to sustained pressure from ball one.

🏏With the bat, Willey’s top order kept things steady and composed — Cath Searle (16), Helen Jones (17) and Rachel Jones (17) all providing important runs to anchor the chase and keep momentum moving in the right direction.

⭐ Captain’s Player – Carla Brassington
Carla was absolutely on point — 4 overs, 2 wickets for just 10 runs, including a pivotal breakthrough that swung the game Willey’s way… Unflappable and totally dependable as she has been all season 🥰

💚🖤The ladies final game of the season resulted in a 2nd place finish in Division 1…. Lots of growth in development, team work and some youth coming through to keep us all feeling younger!

💚We have the floodlit festival at Wrekin College to look forward to in a couple of weeks and also the start of the indoor leagues.

🖤Thank you to Matt Smout Kieron Hatton and Rich Cooper for your support and help in the field.

Yay 🙌🏼 No rain - only sun ☀️ =Cricket can commence.
Full cricket weekend….. starting half hour earlier!

💚Saturday
🏠 1st team - Home against St George’s 2nds - 12pm start.
🚗 2nd team - Away against Wroxeter 2nds - 12:30pm start.

🖤Sunday
🏠 Ladies - FINAL GAME - Home against Madeley - 10am start.
🏠 3rd team - Home - against Llanidloes - 12pm start.

Last few games so let’s do this 🏏🙌🏼
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🌧️ 🌧️ Rain Rain GO AWAY - we have cricket 🏏 to play!

Saturday = Match day….

Only the two teams out this weekend -
🚗 WIlley 1st Team - Away v Wroxeter and Uppington Cricket Club - 12:30pm start.
🏠 WIlley 2nd Team - Home v Bishops Castle Cricket Club - 1pm start.

Thank you to our dedicated scorers …
Joanne Ball - 1st team
Becki Cooper - 2nd team

As always, thank you to the continued support from our sponsors:
🏠 Habitat Lettings
🐶 Broseley Hounds
🌙 The Half Moon in Jackfield
⚫️ ADL Granite & Marble Ltd
🛞 Broseley Tyres
🪵 Logs by Lewis
🧱 Joe Gough
🎯 Telford Sports
🌾 Morris Corfield

💚🖤 Willey Ladies v Pontesbury Ladies – Women’s Softball 🏏

A tough one for the Willey ladies yesterday as they played the lovely Pontesbury Cricket Club team! Pontesbury Cricket Club

Willey batted first, putting 105 all out from 20 overs on the board.

There were some great contributions throughout the innings, with Gemma Foster and Jodie Foster both making 19, Cath Searle adding 16, the rest chipping in. With 27 extras also added, the team battled right through to the end. 👏

Pontesbury came out chasing and reached 106/2 from just 14.5 overs, winning by 7 wickets. A special mention to our bowlers, who kept battling away — Helen Jones and Rachel Jones both picking up wickets, while Issy Walters, Susie Brown, Carla Brassington and Jodie Foster all put in valuable spells. 💪🏏

But yesterday wasn’t just about the result. ❤️ Pontesbury were an absolute pleasure to play against — friendly, welcoming and full of great spirit throughout the game. It’s always lovely to see this team, and games like this are exactly what women’s cricket and softball should be about: enjoying the game, supporting each other and having a good laugh along the way! 🥰🏏

🌟 CAPTAIN’S PLAYER – JODIE FOSTER 🌟Jodie Foster
Jodie absolutely threw herself into everything yesterday! 💪 She delivered with the ball, the bat and in the field, but her contribution didn’t stop there.
🌟 She gave me fantastic support off the pitch too, talking through possible tactics and outcomes and helping me think through different situations during the game. Her support was invaluable and it was brilliant to watch her confidence grow with the bat as the innings progressed. ❤️
A thoroughly deserved Captain’s Player! 👏🚀

Well done ladies — another game, another opportunity to learn, improve and enjoy playing together. 💚🖤

And thank you Pontesbury for being the lovely team you are — always good to see you! 🥰🏏

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👀 A whole weekend of cricket for all our senior teams.
Saturday
🚗 1st team - away at Wheaton Aston- 12:30pm start.
🏠 2nd team - Home against Oswestry 2nds - 1pm start.
Sunday
🚗 Ladies softball team - away at Pontesbury -10:30am start.
🚗 3rd team - away at Wroxeter & Uppington CC - 1pm start.

Thank you to our weekend scorers -
1st team - Joanne Ball
2nd team - Becki Cooper
Ladies - Cara Suzanne

Thank you to our sponsors
🏠 Habitat Lettings
🌙 The Half Moon in Jackfield
🌑 ADL Granite & Marble Ltd
🐶 Broseley Hounds
🛞 Broseley Tyres
🧱 Joe Gough
🪵 Logs by Lewis
🎯 Telford Sports
🌾 Morris Corfield

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💚🖤Fantastic day for our Summer Camp 2026. Thank you to Luke at Cricket Shropshire for an action packed day with the help of our wonderful coaches Matt Smout Jonathan Duppa Ian Slater Kieron Hatton Lucy Plant Daniel Thomas. We did some batting, bowling and fielding drills and then had a pairs game between - Willey Rockets 🚀 and Willey Squirrels 🐿️.

🏏👏🏼👏🏼The behaviour, team spirit and concentration of all children was exemplary - An enjoyable day had by all.

💚🖤Willey 1sts Match Report
A game against 🔝 of the league for the 1sts this week knowing it will be a tough game and really needing a result to push us out of the bottom 2‼️

😵‍💫The day started off in a strange fashion with us winning the toss for only the 3rd time all season 🫣

🔴Electing to bowl first, hoping to make the most of the overhead condition and it worked as opening pair Kieron Hatton (4-31 from 9) and Cameron Wallis (2-41) 😎 taking the top with them!!

🔴Shane Hatton (1-9) and Will Brown (3-7) took the remaining wickets and bowling frankwell out for just 99😬.

🏏The Chase didn’t go exactly to plan as we lost early wickets!! And the frankwell bowling attack put in a great display 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

🏏Cameron Wallis (12) being the pick of the top 5

🏏Then Iwan Morgan (18) came in and played an extremely patient innings and steadied the flow of wickets

🏏Fortunately, we dug deep and our 9 and 10 did the damage as Tim Bellett (20*) and Callum Bailey (13*) took us home

👊🏼We finished on 102-8 from 39.2 overs

This was a huge win for us as it takes us out of the bottom 2 with just 5 games remaining 🤗

We travel to Wheaton Aston on Saturday hoping to get another win under our belts🙌🏼

Thank you to Worfield Cricket Club for inviting Our U11s to play in your Caribbean festival. A great game with equal measures of team work, competition and all showing the spirit of cricket. Hopefully see you next season.
Thank you to our junior sponsor - Morris Corfield