A season for junior female cricketers is being floated by association director Mark Grogan, who is planning a meeting with interested participants early next month.

Grogan said the BCA was looking to feed off the BFL’s recent initiative, which was created with four teams in 2011 and swelled to 11 sides in 2014.

The idea has stemmed from the BCA’s in-depth look at its future and the creation of a strategic plan, which partly focuses on the need to increase participation.

“My plan is to run a Twenty20 competition, where we might only play every second or third week and get that up and running,” Grogan said. 

“The idea is to get some interest and build it from there.

“I think it would be a winner because really the hard work has been done by the football league.”

Grogan said there were already two girls teams running out of Golden Point and numerous girls playing with the boys in BCA junior grades, as well as the senior Napoleons-Sebastopol side in the Victorian Women’s Cricket Association.

Money is also expected to be available to loan by clubs looking to start up both junior boys and girls teams, thanks to a couple of new BCA sponsors.

“It was primarily set up for the boys’ sides – that was the idea of the money – (but) now the girls have got an interest, we are going to flow into the girls as well,” Grogan said.

“They (clubs) have got to come to me with a business plan, if you like, then we tick the boxes and say that qualifies you for ‘x’ amount of money.”

Grogan will host a meeting for interested female cricketers on Tuesday, February 10 at Eastern Oval.

More information can be sought from the BCA website or by calling Grogan on 0473 071 970.

tim.oconnor@fairfaxmedia.com.au