The Skipton Community Sports Hub is a welcome new addition at Sandylands. The £1m new facility will be home to Skipton Cricket Club, Skipton Juniors FC and Skipton Ladies AFC, as well as being available for community use – as a bar and for venue hire. Malcolm Birks, chair of the Skipton Community Sports Hub, […]
West Yorkshire Women and Girls Cricket League
Katie Stewart: Women and girls’ cricket is soaring
My latest guest on the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast is Katie Stewart, YCB’s Women and Girls Development Manager for West Yorkshire. Have a listen below as she guides us through some of the stand-out moments from a memorable season of women and girls’ cricket. 🎤 PODCAST INTERVIEW In this Cricket Yorkshire podcast episode, Katie discusses: 🔥 Successes and […]
West Yorkshire Women & Girls League XI win Yorkshire Cup
A new fixture for 2024 was an inter-league match between a West Yorkshire Women & Girls League XI and South Yorkshire Women & Girls League XI at Treeton Cricket Club on Sunday 25 August. It’s a further sign of the development of the women and girls’ game in Yorkshire as leagues in both West & […]
Bradford Park Avenue Ladies win at Crossflatts to go top
There were a few games being held on Sunday and to be totally honest, the choice was made for me – considering the top two in the league were playing each other. What league? What top two? I hear you ask. Well, as you may or may not know [depending on whether you have read […]
West Yorkshire Women and Girls’ League: Menston spring a surprise at Skipton
I’ve been rather unlucky over the past two weeks. Sundays have been put aside to cover women’s cricket – but frustratingly, there have been relatively few games scheduled, and the last one that I had planned to go to was postponed…which I only found out about when I turned up at the ground. This week, […]
St Chad’s Broomfield’s redemption story at this year’s Archer Cup
Charlotte Ashton (who plays for St Chad’s Broomfield Women’s 1st XI) reports on the Archer Cup as this showpiece of the West Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League delivered drama and surprises. The third edition of the Archer Cup Finals Day took place on Sunday 28 July, and there could not have been a more […]
Metcalfe and Garton centuries win it for Harrogate Women
Looking around the fixture list for Sunday’s venue, there were a number of potential destinations for me to travel to…with the Hambleton Women’s Outdoor Soft Ball League (West) game between Ouseburn and Ripon being the first choice. However, as I prepared to set off, I was disappointed to find that their game had been conceded […]
Rachael Mackenzie: Inspiring women and girls in cricket and life
Rachael Mackenzie has an extraordinary story to tell. A thai boxing class at university ultimately led to incredible success in a rise to the top of the women’s world rankings in two weight categories. A switch to boxing was no less impressive as she became England boxing champion and is now a keynote speaker on […]
AirTag or tails? Menston defeat Harrogate in Archer Cup
Another one of those days where I arrive way too early for a game, which isn’t a problem if I haven’t been to the ground before, or certainly haven’t been there in many years. However, this was Harrogate Cricket Club and a ground that I know intimately. Parking up on the grass bank that overlooks […]
Rain or Shine: Pudsey St. Lawrence Women and St. Chad’s double header
I’d put a call out on social media a couple of weeks ago to find out what women’s games were on that week, as the weather had been poor and quite a few weekend fixtures were in real doubt. About a week later, Paul Priestley popped a reply up about a double fixture between Pudsey […]