Jo Ramsdale is our Yorkshire Tea Community Cricket Award winner for August and we caught up to talk about her coaching in clubs and schools. She wins a trophy and 1,500 Yorkshire Gold teabags to ensure everyone has a brew in her team or at her cricket sessions. We all find our own path to […]
Women and girls cricket
Emeralds’ resistance broken at Denby in ECB Women’s Club T20
On Sunday, 3 August 2025, Sessay CC Emeralds 1st XI travelled to Denby CC to face Copdock & Old Ipswichian CC Ladies 1st XI in the ECB Womenâs Club Cup T20 semi-final. Report and match photos by Mark Doherty. There was so much happening on Sunday; one of those days when, as a cricket lover, […]
Whiston Parish Church Belles prove the perfect advert
Tom Pollard reflects on a satisfying first visit to Whiston Parish Church Cricket Club to watch women’s cricket with his family. Despite living just a stone’s throw away from Whiston Cricket Ground, I had never visited since moving to Rotherham. I now have a four-year-old daughter and want to champion womenâs sport wherever possible, so […]
YCF Roses Festivals offers girls-only cricket for beginners
Girls cricket is riding a wave of popularity and momentum here in Yorkshire so I took myself off to watch a Roses Festival at Colton Institute Cricket Club to learn more. This feature, in partnership with the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation (YCF), looks at the ongoing programme of Roses Festivals across the region. Roses Cricket, Powered […]
Rain halts weekend games before Monday cup final drama
Harrogate CC Women welcomed St. Chadâs Broomfield CC, while Kirk Hammerton faced Spofforth CC in a rain-affected weekend of Yorkshire cricket, covered by Mark Doherty. High risk of pluvial One of the things that youâll have probably noticed when reading the musings of John, Andrew or myselfâŠis the fact that we all seem to spend […]
Harrogate Women 1st XI impress against Menston before the rain
Harrogate Cricket Club’s St George’s Road HQ was the venue for this West Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League Division One match against Menston. Mark Doherty reports on an impressive display with the ball from the hosts’ Women’s 1st XI before the rain came. The Weather Gods Zeus was supposed to be in a bad […]
Super Sunday: Four clubs representing Yorkshire nationally
It is âSuper Sundayâ this weekend â July 6 â for four of Yorkshireâs teams taking part in the climactic stages of blue riband national knockout club competitions. The menâs sides of York (ECB National Club Championship) and Thornton (National Village Cup), and their womenâs counterparts from Sessay Emeralds (ECB Womenâs Club Cup T20) and […]
Driffield Town lead YPLN Women’s Premier League
Clifton Park hosted Clifton Alliance CC Women v Driffield Town Women in a Yorkshire Premier League North clash on Sunday 29 June 2025, with the sound of County Championship action between Yorkshire and Essex just over the fence â the perfect backdrop for another cricketing tale from Mark Doherty. đ» Beer, sun and a bumper […]
Knaresborough Forest Willows host TABS in Leeds East Div 1
Knaresborough Forest CC was the setting for Mark Doherty as the Willows hosted Thorp Arch and Boston Spa Women in a West Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League’s Leeds East Division One game that promised drama before the rain had its say. In the early hours of Tuesday 1 April, a few neighbours were woken […]
Podcast: Juniors & Rockets at Otley Cricket Club
Claire Bassindale was Highly Commended in Mayâs Yorkshire Tea Community Cricket Awards and I caught up with Claire to learn how she got involved and the successes since at Otley CC. Her award nomination for last month read: âWithout Claire being such a huge part of our cricket club and volunteering every day/night, I can […]