Cricket: Female Outdoor Championship Final 2025-26

DATE

Monday 15^th June 2026

VENUE

Wormsley Cricket Ground, Stokenchurch, High Wycombe, HP14 3YE

Registration will take place at 8:45am.

Each team's captain must register the team on arrival to BUCS staff in the BUCS Gazebo. Please bring your team sheet to registration or email it in advance to Erin Simmonds. Players must be in the team on BUCS Play.

All players are required to provide valid student identification at registration (i.e. student card). Anyone without the relevant identification may not be permitted to compete

08:45    Teams arrive and register at Pavilion with BUCS Staff

09:00    Warm up – Nets can be used as part of your warm-up

10:20    Team Photo

10:30    Match Starts

approx 13:45     30 minute lunch break

17:30    Match Finishes

17:40    Presentations

Team sheet

The team sheet can be downloaded here

All competitors must be listed on their team sheet on BUCS Play as well as providing a paper team sheet.

The paper team sheet must be brought to registration with your match day playing squad listed. Anyone listed on the paper team sheet who is

The team sheet can be emailed in advance to Erin Simmonds by Friday 12^th June

Match Format

The match shall consist of one innings of 50 overs per side

Match Balls

BUCS will provide match play balls. Teams are responsible for their own warm-up and training balls.

REG CRI 6.1 All other league and knockout competition matches Grade A standard and English manufactured pink balls shall be used. BUCS recommends the Oxbridge Windsor Ball for Open matches and the Oxbridge Kensington Ball for Female matches.

Team Photos

Team photographs will take place outside the main pavilion at before the match start. Your team are asked to be ready for this time and dressed in their playing kit.

Changing Facilities

Both teams will have access to changing rooms. These can be located in the pavilion.

Kit

CRI 7.2 All other league and knockout competition matches All teams are strongly encouraged to play in coloured playing shirts/sweaters and trousers, but this is not mandatory and so players are permitted to wear white/ivory playing shirts, sweaters and/or trousers, along as this is consistent across all players in a team. It is also strongly encouraged that any batting pads or wicket-keeping pads worn are coloured. Teams are not permitted to wear playing shirts, sweaters, trousers, batting pads or wicket-keeping pads which are predominantly pink, unless agreed with the opposition.

Officials

Umpires have been appointed through the ECB.

Parking is available and free of charge. Stewards at Wormsley will direct players and spectators on arrival to parking.

Please let [email protected] know if you plan on travelling on a coach/plan on bringing spectator coaches

• Players can park on the gravel by The Cricket Pavilion
• Spectators will be parking in Cricket Bank Parking

Team Catering

Lunch will be provided between innings for the 14 players listed on your team sheet along with one coach and your scorer. Your team will be given lunch vouchers at registration. Each player, your coach and scorer should take a voucher with you when collecting your lunch.

If you have any dietary requirements, please complete the form here by Tuesday 9 June.

If do not complete the form, we cannot guarantee we can meet your dietary requirement.

Spectator Catering

A tea and coffee vendor will be available who will also sell snacks. No other catering provision will be available.

This is not a ticketed event. Spectators can attend free of charge.

The BUCS General Rules and Regulations can be found here.

The BUCS Cricket Regulations can be found here

Please see Appendix 1 and Reg 6 for the BUCS Points available at this event.

Anyone wishing to take photos or video at this event must complete the BUCS Media Accreditation Form prior to the event. Please speak to a BUCS member of staff on the day to collect your accreditation. 

BUCS reserves the right to prohibit photography equipment being used at a BUCS event. BUCS reserves the right to request that the individual ceases to take photographs, deletes any images and, if considered necessary, leaves the venue.

The sustainability of our event matters to us and these are the positive steps we are taking to manage our environmental impact:

• All staff and volunteers are encouraged to travel to the event via public transport
• We have used local suppliers where possible
• Event programmes are all online, minimising paper use

How can you help at this event? Here’s some ideas:

• Be self-sufficient by using refillable bottles and coffee cups to reduce waste
• Travel smarter – as a team on a minibus, cycle or use public transport
• Go paperless - use your phone for all event information

BUCS’ mission is to provide exceptional student sporting experiences that inspire, develop and unite.

Critical to our success is our commitment to always providing safe, friendly and enjoyable environments for all participants. Whether competing, coaching, officiating, volunteering, working or spectating at these events, the welfare of all is critical to our mission.

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