At the Crease: Latest club cricket news from around Yorkshire

Kate Duffield signs for Doncaster Town

Kate Duffield, from Auckland University Cricket Club, has signed for Doncaster Town Cricket Club for 2025.

The Kiwi teen was part of the Auckland team who won the Kookaburra U17 Girls National tournament at the start of the year and she replaces Laura Scheiwe at Doncaster Town.

All-rounder Duffield is a right-handed top-four batter and off-spin bowler, who will be back playing at Auckland University Cricket Club this season.

She is also with Eastern Districts U19 and has a few more games for Glendowie College, before finishing school in December this year.

For Auckland U17s, she was selected as an opening batter and ranked in the top ten at the national tournament for that age group.

In the Auckland Secondary School Premier tournaments; a standard that is the highest Grade of schools cricket in New Zealand, Kate has scored numerous fifties.

DTCC skipper Shell Styring will be hoping Duffield has a strong impact in the Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League. It will be interesting to see how standards compare.

In other news, former Doncaster Town 1st XI cricketer Caleb Jewell (who scored 1,198 runs for Doncaster Town Cricket Club in 2023) has recently signed to play county cricket for Derbyshire next season.

Haworth Road Meths folds after almost 75 years

Haworth Road Methodist Church Cricket Club have folded after the volunteers running the cricket club decided to call it a day.

The demise of the Timothy Taylor’s Craven Cricket League member club, whose first eleven finished fifth in Division One in 2024, stands as a cautionary tale.

They had plenty of players, were financially stable and there has been no controversy.

But, in an interview with Bill Marshall for the Telegraph and Argus, Club secretary Les Gudgeon said: “The five major personnel in the club – myself, Andy and Nick Griggs, Andrew Gudgeon (Les’ son) and Charles Briggs – didn’t really want to continue without the others so the decision was reasonably easy.”

He added: “We are financially sound as a club, which is a lot down to friends and family who have money, and me being prudent with that money, while the guys who are playing are absolutely fine.”

“All of our registered players will become free agents.”

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Tattersall swaps York for Knaresborough

Yorkshire’s wicketkeeper-batter Jonathan Tattersall has moved to Knaresborough Cricket Club from York Cricket Club for the 2025 season.

The high-profile signing for Knaresborough follows the club’s first eleven being promoted from Championship West to the Premier Division of Yorkshire Premier League North.

Alongside his county commitments where he has captained this season, Tattersall managed just four games for York in 2024, averaging 30 with the bat.

Jonny moves ‘home’ where he played in the first eleven between 2007 and 2013, with a highest score of 82 not out against Menston in Division 2 of the Aire-Wharfe Cricket League.

It probably makes a decent pub quiz question: Which cricket club has two former England goalkeepers and the current Yorkshire wicketkeeper?

Paul Robinson, Nigel Martyn and now Jonny Tattersall: Wonder who gets the gloves?!

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