The final project from University of Sheffield student, Jamie Moughton, has caught the attention after it looked at barriers to female participation in cricket. Jamie's video project for his MA in Broadcast Journalism was inspired by a tweet from The Times journalist Elizabeth Ammon. Her point about changing
Welcome to Cricket Yorkshire’s league round-up of women’s hard ball cricket from across the region. It’s a snapshot of the 2022 season so far with plenty of clubs, competitions and performances mentioned. This year has seen really exciting growth in the number of women’s teams
Having dangerously waved goodbye to Mrs Cricket Yorkshire outside Magnet Kitchens, I walked down to Crossflatts Cricket Club where their Ladies 1st XI were at home to Bradford Park Avenue Ladies. A drab, cool forecast proved to be some way off the mark as the sun came out and a
As Sara Begg reports, a new West Yorkshire women’s softball league is up and running. New for 2022, the softball league has 20 teams taking part, regionalised into groups: Leeds, Calderdale, Huddersfield, Aire Valley and Bradford. Sunday 15 May 2022 marked a historic occasion as four Huddersfield clubs went
It’s been an extraordinary year for women and girls cricket in Yorkshire. In partnership with the Yorkshire Cricket Board (YCB), I thought it was worth highlighting the successes across the regions and some of the plans already in place for 2022. This year, the Yorkshire Cricket Board has employed
Megan Hodkinson is my latest guest on the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast as we discussed how she got into cricket in the first place, her success with Yorkshire age-groups and a long-term association with Wrenthorpe. Over this half-hour episode, there's her approach to captaincy as well
The Yorkshire Cricket Board (YCB) and the wider cricketing family are celebrating International Women’s Day throughout the whole of March by hosting a month of activities to showcase the women’s game. March will be used to share stories across the women's game and encourage more women
A visit to Emerald Headingley to watch Yorkshire Diamonds face Loughborough Lightning in the Kia Super League delivered everything you could want - except a home victory. It began with a surreal walk up from the railway station to be gradually overtaken by an elongated golf buggy with 'Yorkies'
The BBC Three film Bats, Balls and Bradford Girls is an absolute must-see documentary available on iPlayer. There are moments of wit, courage, selflessness and from the accents to the urban landscape, it is unmistakably Yorkshire. At its heart are the stories from an Asian girls’ cricket team who
We all know a cricket coach that has proved pivotal whether for a team we support, our own relationship with the game or who has been instrumental for someone we know. For Leeds-based community coach Maryam Ali, her journey in cricket is only really starting but yet for those
Stepping down off the train at Pannal, the local Women’s Institute were doing a spot of pruning at what must be one of the finest floral backdrops of any station. There to meet me was Steve Gill, Spofforth Cricket Club’s Chairman, for the short drive east back to
Yorkshire and England cricketer Lauren Winfield has had quite the winter. Snapped up by Brisbane Heat for the inaugural Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL), the 25-year-old from York swapped soggy Yorkshire for Australian sunshine. In the same squad as England team mate Kate Cross and opener Beth
Yorkshire Women visited Harrogate Cricket Club on Sunday for the Royal London One Day Cup against Middlesex; a chance to see how Mark Loker's squad fared in this fifty-over competition. Packed with England internationals from Lauren Winfield to Katherine Brunt, Yorkshire had firepower in abundance, on paper
