Which one is my child in?
Reception to Year 2 — Cheam Mini Crickets · mixed, boys and girls · Tuesdays · 10 weeks — £115
Ages 5 to 8 — ECB All Stars · mixed, boys and girls · Fridays · 8 weeks — 2026 price held, listed on ClubSpark
Ages 8 to 11 — ECB Dynamos · mixed · Tuesdays · upgrade into our 12-week programme — £70
Girls 5 to 15 — Girls-only Dynamos and girls training · Fridays — £85
From age 7 — U8 and up — Full club membership — 12 weeks, longer sessions, league games and friendlies — from £150
Fridays are busy on purpose: All Stars, girls-only Dynamos and our club girls programme all run that evening, so there is plenty to choose from. Add Cheam Mini Crickets on a Tuesday if you want more. Club membership tiers: ages 7 to 10 £150 · ages 11 and up £175.
The four programmes — pick one. Or two.
Cheam Mini Crickets — £115
Reception to Year 2 · Mixed · Tuesdays · 10 weeks
Mixed — boys and girls train together · Rec & Year 1: 6.00–6.45pm · Year 2: 6.45–7.45pm · Real coaching built for under-8s · Turning 7? Pay the difference and step up into our U8 formal programme
IF YOU PICK ONE, PICK THIS. Starts after Easter 2027.
ECB All Stars — 2026 price held
Ages 5–8 · Mixed · Fridays · 8 weeks
A first taste: hold a bat, have a run around, decide if you like it · No formal coaching component, and that is deliberate · Free kit bag from the ECB
A national ECB programme — each centre sets its own price. Ours is listed on ClubSpark when booking opens.
ECB Dynamos — £70
Ages 8–11 · Mixed · Tuesdays
The step up from All Stars — more skills, longer sessions, informal games · Still a programme, not a team: no squads, no fixtures · Finish the block and upgrade into our 12-week club programme — only pay the difference
2027 price held at the 2026 level. What you paid comes off club membership.
Girls cricket & girls-only Dynamos — £85 membership
Girls 5–15 · Fridays 6.00–7.30pm
Girls-only Dynamos on Fridays — book through the ECB on ClubSpark · Our club girls programme runs the same evening · Enjoying it? Upgrade and only pay the difference · Girls who join may also play in our junior leagues
Membership held deliberately below the boys rate while we grow the section. What you paid the ECB comes off the £85.
Cheam CC junior training — our own programmes
The heart of the junior section is our own club training at Peaches Close — Tuesday evenings with our ECB-qualified coaches, leading into league cricket and friendlies with all match fees included. No trials, ever.
Junior Development — ages 7 to 10 — £150. Twelve weeks of summer training on our own ground. The step up from Mini Crickets and Dynamos.
Junior Performance — ages 11 and up — £175. Twelve weeks, the hardball pathway, and the route into the Cheam CC Academy.
Winter training — school years 3 to 6 and ages 12 to 16. Indoor at Harris Academy and Overton Grange, Tuesday evenings from October.
Brothers and sisters: 2nd child 15% off, 3rd and after 30% off — and no family pays more than £400 a season.
Cheam Lionesses — girls cricket, and somewhere to go next
Girls-only Dynamos is a way of running the programme, not an ECB brand of its own — so the national finder cannot tell you what a club actually does with it. This page can.
5–15
Ages welcome, all abilities
£85
Membership, match fees included
Fridays
6.00–7.30pm at the ground
32,000
Girls in ECB programmes in 2025
Why Cheam
No trials, ever. Every child gets a game. That is the whole policy.
Match fees included. No surprise extras on a Sunday morning.
Our own ground. Playing at Peaches Close since 1864.
Bursaries. Cost is never the reason a child does not play.
Finding us
Summer — the ground.
Cheam CC, c/o Cheam Sports Club, Peaches Close, Cheam, Sutton SM2 7BJ. Free parking. Buses 213 and 280.
Winter — indoor venues.
Harris Academy Sutton (week 1), Overton Grange (weeks 2–10). Training venues, not the ground.
Junior contact.
Momen Hoque, Head of Colts
juniors@cheamcricketclub.co.uk
07595 730078
All our junior policies — safeguarding, codes of conduct, inclusion — are on the club policies page. Download the junior recruitment flyer for everything about joining on one page.
Do you think your child is ready for more?
If you have already begun their cricket education — a season of Mini Crickets, All Stars, or just a lot of back-garden bowling — then from age seven they can join the Cheam U8 squad and take on a more structured and formal cricket programme. This is the point where it stops being an introduction and becomes cricket. If they are already with us on Cheam Mini Crickets, All Stars or Dynamos, you only pay the difference.
12 WEEKS
A full season block, not a short course.
LONGER SESSIONS
More time on the grass every week.
MORE TECHNICAL
Batting, bowling and fielding taught properly.
LEAGUE GAMES
Real matches and friendlies against other clubs.
Junior club membership, U8 and up: from £150 (ages 7–10 £150 · ages 11+ £175).
The whole path — how it runs, year by year
MAY TO JULY
Mini Crickets, All Stars and Dynamos run.
FROM YEAR 3
Indoor winter training, Tuesdays from October.
FROM AGE 7
U8 and up: junior club membership. Twelve weeks, league games, proper training.
NEXT MAY
Same group again, a year further on.
All four summer programmes are summer only. Winter training currently starts at school year 3.
Questions parents actually ask
What is the difference between All Stars and Mini Crickets?
All Stars is a taster — eight weekly sessions to find out whether your child likes cricket, with no formal coaching component. Cheam Mini Crickets is ten Tuesdays of actual coaching, built specifically for four to seven-year-olds. All Stars is on a Friday, so plenty of families do both.
Are these boys only, or girls only?
Mixed. Cheam Mini Crickets, All Stars and Dynamos are all open to boys and girls training together, grouped by school year or age rather than by gender. The only single-sex option is girls-only Dynamos, for families who want it.
Does either one include club membership?
No. All Stars is an ECB course booking. Mini Crickets has its own membership covering the ten weeks. Full club membership starts at U8.
When can my child actually join the club?
From age seven, once the basic skills are there. The U8 programme is a twelve-week block with longer sessions and more technical coaching — this is where proper cricket training begins and where they start playing league games and friendlies against other clubs.
My daughter wants girls-only. Is that a thing?
Yes. Dynamos can be run as girls-only sessions and we do. There is no girls-only All Stars anywhere in the country.
Does she need kit?
No. Comfortable sportswear is fine, and we lend bats, balls and pads to anyone starting out.
What happens if it rains?
Sessions lost to bad weather are replaced, at the discretion of the club and the third-party providers who deliver the programme. This applies to Cheam Mini Crickets, All Stars and Dynamos alike.
Book a place
Our own programmes are booked here. The ECB programmes are booked on ClubSpark. Already with us? You only pay the difference.
Not ready yet? Join the waitlist — email juniors@cheamcricketclub.co.uk and we will email you first when next season opens.