Mount Cricket Club are a great example of a women’s team that has hit the ground running since it launched a year ago. I caught up with Head Coach & Development Officer Sanna Ahmed to find out how this fledgling side are getting on. She tells me that the idea came after a conversation with […]
Women and girls cricket
Early birds: Pre-season friendlies and when leagues begin
I get a bit twitchy at this time of year. Conflicted even. On the one hand, it’s definitely a time to celebrate more light and longer days with Spring here and the prospect of club cricket around the corner. Yet, there’s no disguising the fact that perhaps now I don’t play anymore, enthusiasm for watching […]
Deepa Chukkapalli: From Lancashire to Spain (via Bradford)
Deepa Chukkapalli, a 13-year-old cricketer who plays for Bradford Park Avenue Ladies, has been selected for the Spanish National Women’s cricket squad. Spanish Ladies head to Brescia in May to face Italy in a T10 series and Chukkapalli, picked by Spain for the first time, is expected to make her debut, according to Cricket España. […]
Does your cricket club need more pitches this year?
The Flicx pitch has been a game-changer since it launched in the UK in 2001. While it has attracted global headlines for facilitating games from Kilimanjaro to the subterranean depths of Honister Slate Mine, it’s at clubs and schools where the impact has been most impressive. In this content collaboration with Flicx, we’ll share how […]
Wickersley Vixens crowned Women and Girls’ Indoor Champions of Yorkshire
Wickersley Vixens are the inaugural Women & Girls’ Indoor County Champions of Yorkshire after the finals took place last Saturday March 9 at S20 The Boundary in Sheffield. The Vixens, who were South Yorkshire indoor champions, beat York University (winners of North and East Yorkshire) by 44 runs in the final game. Earlier, West Yorkshire’s […]
Viking Cricket: Quality Yorkshire Cricket Bats
If you think about it, Viking Cricket is about as Yorkshire as it gets. The award-winning English willow cricket bats sell around the world from their Silsden HQ but the DNA has both a Scandinavian and White Rose heritage. That’s literally the case for Managing Director Jeff Wilson whose family roots can be traced back […]
How girls in Sheffield found cricket with Chance to Shine Street
Chance to Shine Street is a fast-paced form of cricket that is being used all over the country to support those from some of the most diverse backgrounds and disadvantaged areas. Six a side. Just twenty balls per innings. Played with a tapeball (a tennis ball encased in electrical tape to make it fly off […]
Meet Frecheville’s Game Changer: Harriet Barber
Harriet Barber, winner of this year’s Yorkshire Cricket Board Game Changer Award, is a prime example of the expansion of a volunteer’s role. She’s been at Frecheville Community Cricket Club for nearly eight years now; beginning as a player with the U15s. With her move to the Sheffield suburbs, Harriet has juggled playing with scoring […]
Wrenthorpe Ladies & Girls: Path to Premier League Champions
Wrenthorpe Women’s 1st XI capped a memorable year by defeating title challengers Sessay in the last match of the 2023 season to be crowned Premier League Champions. Having led from the start, it still required a final push against the reigning Champions Sessay who set out their stall with 169 for 9 off their 40 […]
Doncaster Town Women: Back to front but on the up
Alison March of Doncaster Town Cricket Club shares how Doncaster Town Women & Girls teams began and have developed. *** Cricket for most women and girls starts with the girls being involved in All Stars / Dynamos and progressing through to juniors’ softball then hardball. Doncaster Town Cricket Club women found themselves doing quite the […]