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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
Horsforth women and girls cricket has flourished in just two years. John Fuller explores the journey so far with Claire Secker.
Interviews with clubs using Lacuna Sports whose cricket teamwear for women and girls caters for body types, lots of customisation and thoughtful design.
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’
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,
Women’s indoor league cricket in Bradford delivered skill and fast-paced action, as John Fuller reports.
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
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)
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
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
For those that haven’t been to Pudsey, wandering in past the Sir Leonard Hutton Memorial Gates you immediately see the modern extension to the pavilion, which contains a café/bar and patio area with tables outside. To your left is the large playing area with a superbly kept grass
The end is in sight…or should that be ‘the end is nigh’ in honour of those A-board wearing individuals at the turn of the 1900’s? As we reached the fourth Sunday in August, the number of fixtures remaining in many of the women and girls’ leagues could
It’s like someone has slammed their foot down on the brakes; with various leagues and cups coming to an abrupt conclusion at the very end of July and the first week into August. Looking at Play-Cricket to work out any given day’s schedule has been a daunting
Jo Ramsdale is our Yorkshire Tea Community Cricket Award winner for July and we caught up to talk about her coaching in clubs and schools. She wins a trophy and 1,500 Yorkshire Gold teabags to ensure everyone has a brew in her team or at her cricket sessions. We
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
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-
