Women and Girls Cricket

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 […]

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, […]

In this look at the latest from the Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League, we’ll have club and player news as well as early fixtures. The Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League has expanded for the 2025 season to eight teams with Yapham and Tickhill the newcomers. It is a quirky point of note that […]

When Rachel Lewis realised Birstall Cricket Club didn’t have a women’s team, she decided to do something about it. There was a rounders team but her drive to see women and girls’ cricket at the Leeds Road oval didn’t take long to hit overdrive. A theme that has repeatedly chimed in Cricket Yorkshire’s articles on […]

Fran Hamilton of Scholes Cricket Club, shares how women and girls’ cricket began and its subsequent successes. The Scholes women and girls cricket story started in August / September 2022, towards the end of season where the mums were having a drink and decided it would be a good idea to play hardball cricket in […]

Natalie Liddell, captain of Whitley Bridge Cricket Club women’s team, talks to Cricket Yorkshire about how it all started – and has proved so popular in their first year. It’s a tale of the rapid rise of softball cricket in Eggborough, allied with funding support and building excitement. Natalie told me: “Our cricket club has […]

With the growth of the women and girls’ game here in Yorkshire, there are plenty of opportunities to get involved beyond playing. A new Females in Cricket event, organised by the Yorkshire Cricket Board (YCB), is being held at Headingley Cricket Ground on Saturday 22 February. There will be workshops by industry experts, plus the […]

Sessay Emeralds Lead Coach Peter Watson and professional cricketer Phoebe Turner are my latest guests on the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast. It’s the story of how a North Yorkshire village club grew from a few players to the women and girls’ cricket powerhouse it is now a decade later. 🎤 PODCAST INTERVIEWS (54-MINS) In this Cricket Yorkshire […]

Waving a sleepy goodbye to my wife and cat (the latter acknowledged my departure with a yawn before a customary three-hour kip), it was down the hill to the morning train; Headingley-bound for club cricket. The Sunday forecast was fine and then unsettled and then grim, depending on the weather app and time of day […]

Jon Stokoe shares news of a new women’s changing room at Ravenscar Cricket Club with an unveiling that included a cricket match on the North Yorkshire coast. Ravenscar Cricket Club held a special game on Saturday 7 September. It was to celebrate the opening of a newly built women’s changing room. The game was a […]