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
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
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
The Chance to Compete Yorkshire Finals saw U13 & U15 state schools compete at Ampleforth College in a two-day event, supported by Yorkshire Tea.
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
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’
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
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
After the first round of league matches, the Yorkshire’s Women & Girls Cricket League table has a fresh look to it. While it would be foolish to read too much into results after a single round of games, this was a blow for the newer teams. Defeats for Sessay,
The West Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League is growing at a faster rate than the relentless Amazonian jungle currently masquerading as my back garden. For context, the CYHQ ‘pitch’ is awash with greenery, I just didn’t plant most of it; a heady blend of unseasonal warmth, punctuated by
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
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
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
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
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
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
