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 Women’s 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, […]
Women and Girls Cricket
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 women’s 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sun-splashed Chance to Compete Yorkshire Finals at Ampleforth
The Chance to Compete Yorkshire finals took place at Ampleforth College over two-sun-soaked days recently. Here’s a snapshot of the girls schools cricket extravaganza, with our website partner Yorkshire Tea, who are a long-term supporter of Chance to Shine. National competitions for secondary state school children are run across the year, both indoors and outside, […]
Podcast: Juniors & Rockets at Otley Cricket Club
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]