Charlotte selected for the Essex Academy

November 18, 2025

SUFFOLK’S Charlotte Anderson has been rewarded for a stellar season with a place in the Essex Academy, writes Jack Oastler.

The 15-year-old racked up 310 runs for the first team this year at an average of 51.67, despite only playing eight games. Remarkably, she is already the 15th highest run-scorer in the team’s history.

After two composed half-centuries against Dorset, Anderson’s crowning moment came in the final game of the season.

She scored a magnificent 124 – batting for 48 overs – as Suffolk amassed their highest ever total of 297 for 5 versus Cricket East at Peterborough in the Metro Bank One Day Cup Women’s League 3 Division 2 South.

In becoming just the fourth woman to score a hundred for the county, she now holds the record for the highest individual score.

The opener squeezed in 17 games for the under-18s too, scoring five fifties and a hundred. She was also a safe pair of hands behind the stumps – taking eleven catches. The side won 14 of their 17 completed games – the best record of any team across the club.

Anderson also spent the year as part of Essex’s Emerging Player Programme. She said: “I am pleased to have had a great season and enjoyed playing for Suffolk and the EPP during it. I am super excited for the opportunity and what’s to come!”

Suffolk Cricket Performance Pathway Lead Ben Wallis said: “It is a fantastic reward for all of Charlotte’s hard work over the years. It is great to see a Suffolk pathway player make the next step on the ladder and is inspirational for all of the other talented girls on our pathway programmes.

“Charlotte is the first female Suffolk pathway player to gain a place on Essex’s Academy and something we are really proud of as a county.

“Our girls’ pathway is moving from strength-to-strength which is shown in the number of players selected again on the regional EPP programme, many of these aspiring to follow in Charlotte’s footsteps onto the Essex Academy.”

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