Representative Cricket: County
Wiltshire Cricket has county boys squads at under 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 17 age groups. The county girls have squads at under 11, 13, 15 and 17 and for more information on county girls cricket please visit their section of the website.
In terms of selection, county trials are held annually in the Autumn, a week prior to the district trials. Individual county age group managers and coaches are responsible for organising these trials and will invite the best players from the previous summer's matches to these trials. Following the district trials the county age group coaches will liaise with district head coaches to decide upon final selections for the county winter coaching programme. It may be that following the autumn county and district trials some players from the district trials will be selected for the county winter coaching programme. Also, if players attending a county trial are unsuccessful in being selected for the county winter coaching programme they will automatically be placed in their appropriate district's winter coaching programme.
The county winter coaching programme itself involves a 12 week indoor one to one coaching programme that is then followed by 4 weeks of outdoor squad training, at which point the best players from the district winter coaching programme will join the county squad. Come the end of April a county squad for the playing season will be finalised.
With regards to the summer match play programme the county under 10s, 11s and 12s play in friendly matches and festivals. The county under 13s, 14s, 15s and 17s are entered in to the ECB national competitions.
