At Sidcup we run a thriving junior section, providing fun, safe and high quality coaching and matches for children from the age of 5 onwards.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive club, ensuring that all people are fully included and can actively participate in activities and providing a safe and welcoming place for people of all ages, abilities, genders, cultural, ethnic or religious backgrounds or socio-economic status. Boys and girls train together at all of our age groups, and with the growing focus on girls cricket across the game and at Sidcup CC, we run some activities on a girls-only basis.

The junior section of our club has become extremely popular in recent years, with over 250 youngsters signed on last year. Until the end of March we are only taking applications for the 2023 season from existing members. This is to ensure that we can maintain our fun, safe and engaging sessions for everyone, allowing for good ratios of children to coaches in training and plenty of match opportunity. As a result, we are running a waitlist system for new members for the 2023 season. Please see details at the bottom of the page.

We run the following age groups:

All Stars

Who: School Years Reception - Year 2

What: Lots of entertaining games to help children learn the basics of batting, bowling, catching and throwing through fun games.

When: Saturday mornings 0945-1045

How: Sign up here

Manager: Tim Cook

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Under 9s

Who: School Years 3-4

What: Developing the skills learned in All Stars through more fun games, while also developing an understanding of how the game of cricket works. Soft ball only. Starting to play matches in some fun festivals with other clubs in the area.

When: Training Saturday mornings 0945-1045. Festivals Fridays from June and sometimes Sundays.

Manager: Tim Cook

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Under 11s

Who: School Years 5-6

What: Developing the skills learned in u9s through a mixture of soft ball drills and games, and introducing hard ball cricket. Playing mainly hard ball ‘pairs’ cricket, with occasional softball tournaments and the U10 hardball cup.

When: Training Saturday mornings 0930-1100. Matches mixture of midweek evenings

How: See below

Manager: Adrian Crust

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Under 13s

Who: School Years 7-8

What: Taking the hardball skills and match understanding developed from u11s, building skills further through more technical (but still fun!) drills and games. Matches are played under ‘normal rules’ (ie not ‘pairs’).

When: Training Thursday evenings 6-8pm. Matches mixture of midweek evenings.

How: See Below

Manager: Mike Buchan

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Under 15s

Who: School Years 9-10

What: Taking the skills and match awareness developed in u13s and building them further, with match opportunities both at u15 age group, but also encouraging participation in ‘open age group’ cricket through our adult friendly, Sunday Development and lower league sides.

When: Training Wednesdays 6-8pm. Matches mainly Sundays.

Manager: Mike Buchan

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Under 17s

Who: School Years 11-12

What: Building further on u15s, honing key technical skills and match understanding, with players strongly encouraged to play and train also with adult sides, with opportunities to play all levels of adult cricket as well as our u19 T20 ‘Falcons’ team and our Sunday Development side.

When: Training Wednesdays 6-8pm. Matches mainly Friday evenings.

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Joining u9-u17 for the 2023 season: Existing members will have been sent a prompt to pay membership fees for this season. Please make sure payment is made by the end of March. New members can apply to the waitlist by clicking ‘join’ and selecting the waitlist team for your child’s age group. At the end of March we will allocate any remaining places on a first-come-first-served basis from the waitlist. Parents of girls are encouraged to contact Tim Cook, Head of Junior Cricket to find out about any girls-specific opportunities that may be available.

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