We’re excited to share that Lacuna Sports is partnering with Cricket Yorkshire to showcase the choices available to women’s and girls’ teams when it comes to their kit. Founded by Leigh Burns in 2019 to address the lack of choice available for female athletes, the popular brand has become the leading female cricket teamwear provider […]
Women and girls cricket
Woodlands, Farsley & Pudsey Congs collaborate on girls cricket
Three Bradford Premier League clubs without girls sections – Farsley, Pudsey Congs and Woodlands – have joined forces to launch indoor winter all-girls Dynamos sessions (Roses). Each of the three clubs have recruited a group of girls aged 8-11 to take part in an eight-week training programme at Woodlands’ indoor centre on Sunday afternoons. The […]
North Leeds Women’s 1st XI scale heights in breakout year
North Leeds Women’s 1st XI captain Jacky Fitzpatrick is reflecting on a landmark 2025 season where her squad won Division 1 of the West Yorkshire Women & Girls League. For good measure, they made the national final of the ECB Women’s T20 Plate competition. As opening questions go, I’m curious if the outfit based on […]
Smashing it on Sundays: Women and girls cricket indoors
It takes a particular set of circumstances to get me out of bed any earlier than absolutely necessary on a Sunday morning while a sleepy fog is still swirling. The prospect of cricket in November will just about do it. Though I reckoned a 10am start was particularly keen for this women’s indoor league match […]
Yorkshire Women & Girls League: The Hundred Finals
Gone are the heady days of the summer that almost guaranteed good weather and the innate certainty of cricket being played without interruption. Be it put down to climate change, an interglacial period, or even the Milankovitch cycle…we’ve been fortunate to have cricket almost every scheduled day, apart from one really wet Saturday when I […]
Yorkshire moves to three Women’s Premier Leagues from 2026
In a major change to women’s and girls’ cricket in Yorkshire, there will be three affiliated Regional Women’s Premier Leagues from 2026. This is a significant strategic development in how the game is organised and has quite a bit of detail announced by the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation (YCF). At present, there is the eight-team Yorkshire […]
Hurricanes win Women’s Softball County Finals after bowl-out
This year’s women’s softball county finals, sponsored by Brown & Brown, were hosted at Headingley Stadium and it delivered drama, quite a bit of rain, terrific support and a bowl-out. It was standard softball league rules at 16-over-a-side with pairs batting four overs each and bowlers getting four overs. Batting totals begin on 200 and […]
North Leeds Women grab points to take it to the final game
This time of year is rather strange regarding the recreational game. On one hand, there’s still quite a lot of cricket to be played as the various cups and league competitions come to a grand finale. However, the actual number of games needing to be played has reduced massively – given that a lot of […]
Lola Summerscales: Softball cricket, teas and MPs
Lola Summerscales is our Yorkshire Tea Community Cricket Award winner for August and we caught up with the teen dynamo to discuss Lola’s many roles, particularly around launching women and girls’ cricket at Yeadon. Women and girls’ softball cricket In 2024, Yeadon entered a Women’s 1st XI softball team into the West Yorkshire Women & […]
North Leeds’ title push still on despite Pudsey setback
For those that haven’t been to Pudsey, wandering in past the Sir Leonard Hutton Memorial Gates you immediately see the modern extension to the pavilion, which contains a café/bar and patio area with tables outside. To your left is the large playing area with a superbly kept grass surface that extends down the slight incline […]