U11s 2024 season recaps & look ahead to the 2025 season

4 Apr 2025

Having joined forces with the year above last season, this year’s U11s will be the older group in their two-year age grouping, although there will no doubt be some crossover with the new U10s (last year’s U9s).

2024 season recap

It was another successful season for the U11s (as U10s) last year (in combination with the U12s, who of course were then U11s – keeping up?). In the High Peak league, Mersey Phoenix got to the semi-finals, beaten by Mersey Magic, who went on to win the title. Aside from the intra-Mersey match, both sides only lost once each in this league, an amazing achievement.

In the Cheshire league, a tougher league, Mersey had more of the then-U11s playing in each match, but the then-U10s did provide some support, particularly in the league stages. Laden with then-U11s in the knock-out stages, they went on a great run and got to the final, thwarted only by the weather and ultimately sharing the spoils, a Heaton Mersey Cheshire league-winning first.

Meanwhile, in the South Manchester league, proper Twenty20 cricket, Mersey finished mid-table in the first league, moving into the second division, which they then won.

The summer competitions were a bit of an anti-climax, not helped by the weather.

For the presentation, the awards were as follows:

Best batter: Will
Best bowler: Gregory
Players’ player: George
Coaches’ player: Charlie
Best fielder: Sam W
Most improved: Harvey

2025 season preview

The U11s will be entering three teams into the leagues in 2025, two in the High Peak league (8-a-side pairs) and one in the South Manchester league (proper Twenty20, i.e. “if you’re out, you’re out”). We’re not going to enter a team in the Cheshire league this year because the standard is high and it’s a lot of games to run! It will be interesting to see how the boys get on.