The South Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League enters its first season with a Premier Division, among other changes for 2026. Thanks to the League’s Chair Liz Harris for her knowledge and background as we discussed strategy and structure. The three regional Women’s Premier Leagues have been working closely over the past 18 months (West, […]
Women and Girls Cricket
Women and girls cricket: Horsforth’s rapid rise
Not so long ago, Horsforth Cricket Club had no women’s and girls’ cricket at all. Their rapid transformation since 2024 – with two softball sides and a hardball squad now competing – is one worth diving into. In the middle, the results are already gathering momentum. Horsforth’s indoor squads reached their respective 2025 Finals Day […]
Lacuna Sports: Cricket teamwear just for women and girls
While Lacuna Sports provides cricket teamwear exclusively for women and girls, it’s much more than that. True, this is thoughtful cricket clothing by women for women with emphasis on body type, performance and comfort. In of itself, that’s a game-changer. Founder Leigh Burns began Lacuna Sports to address the lack of consideration for the female […]
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 […]