Claire Bassindale was Highly Commended in May’s 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: ‘Without Claire being such a huge part of our cricket club and volunteering every day/night, I can […]
Women and girls cricket
Softball Cricket Festival at Bilton: Joyous and competitive
The end of the week hadn’t promised too much – as the weather looked decidedly dodgy. Those wonderful people at the Met Office had predicted thunder and lightning, hail and storms, and in our small part of the world…enough rain to shake more than a few sticks at! I’d somehow managed to dodge most of […]
Podcast: Starbeck All Stars, Crossflatts women’s cricket, Sheffield tapeball success
Welcome to a new edition of the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast where we begin with a recap of what’s on cricketyorkshire.com from cricket teas competition to Yorkshire Tea Community Cricket Awards. In the episode, there are interviews with Starbeck Cricket Club by Mark / Caught Light Photography about their All Stars junior cricket launch while Mark also chats […]
Roses Cricket offers girls in Yorkshire new opportunities to play
Roses Cricket, Powered by Dynamos, is the new all-girls Under 11 cricket programme, supported by the Yorkshire Cricket Board (YCB), that has launched across Yorkshire. Dynamos is the ECB’s national programme for 8 to 11 year-olds who are taking their early steps in cricket and Roses Cricket fits into this vision with its emphasis on […]
Division 1: Menston Women’s 1st XI vs St Chad’s Broomfield
Sunday saw a visit to Menston Cricket Club to watch their Women’s 1st XI in action against St Chad’s Broomfield. Top division of the West Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League. Thirty overs each. Roasting hot day. Good toss to win. A sore hip and a camera weighing about as much as a family hatchback […]
A King’s first: Super Kings debut at Collingham & Linton
The weather has been glorious over the past few weeks; chatting to one groundsman last weekend, they had noted that there had only been 0.7cm of rain in the past month, which was actually too little for keeping the grass in good condition and that the playing surface was suffering. Being a little selfish, it […]
Upsets on Yorkshire Women & Girls League’s opening weekend
After the first round of league matches, the Yorkshire’s Women & Girls Cricket League table has a fresh look to it. While it would be foolish to read too much into results after a single round of games, this was a blow for the newer teams. Defeats for Sessay, Wrenthorpe and Doncaster Town in the […]
West Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League: Div 1 Guide
The West Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League is growing at a faster rate than the relentless Amazonian jungle currently masquerading as my back garden. For context, the CYHQ ‘pitch’ is awash with greenery, I just didn’t plant most of it; a heady blend of unseasonal warmth, punctuated by showers doing the rest. Forgive the […]
Bradford Park Avenue Ladies aim for league hat-trick
Bradford Park Avenue Ladies (BPAL) 1st XI captain Kirsty Gavillet is on her lunch break and sharing the club’s successes and future plans with me. Their ascent to unbeaten Division 1 champions in the West Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League can make you forget that the club only formed in 2019. Since finishing fourth […]
ECB Women’s Club Cup T20: Yorkshire Preview
In this feature, we’ll dive into which cricket clubs from Yorkshire are competing in the 2025 ECB Women’s Club T20 and early fixtures. The Women’s Club Cup T20 Group 1 is where four Yorkshire clubs are competing against sides from all over the North. Barnard Castle, Durham City, Fleetwood, Hightown St Marys, Leyland, Lindow, Llandudno, […]