West Yorkshire Women & Girls League XI win Yorkshire Cup

A new fixture for 2024 was an inter-league match between a West Yorkshire Women & Girls League XI and South Yorkshire Women & Girls League XI at Treeton Cricket Club on Sunday 25 August.

It’s a further sign of the development of the women and girls’ game in Yorkshire as leagues in both West & South Yorkshire won’t usually face other, unless in national ECB competitions.

West Yorkshire Women & Girls batted first and scored 175 all out off 36.4 overs. It was a total built around opener Sophie Jacobson who averages 41 this season for St Chads Broomfield Women’s 1st XI.

Jacobson scored 50 off 68 balls while M. Potter (31) and E. Burns (25) added useful contributions as the South Yorkshire side rotated nine bowlers.

For the fielding side, R. Gleadall (3-20) and S. Madden (2-25) got amongst the wickets though H. Cusack’s 0-14 was also very economical.

In reply, South Yorkshire struggled to gain any momentum, pegged back by regular wickets, which were shared around as E. Burns (2-27), M. Fleming (2-19) saw the ‘home’ side reduced to 29-3 then 39-4.

Bradford Park Avenue Ladies’ Tayaba Parveen had a telling five-over spell of 2-2 with wickets for Robinson, Potter, Smith and Metcalf, as South Yorkshire were bundled out for 89 off 30.2 overs.

E. Copeman top-scored with 30 off 31, batting at three, but it was a comfortable 86-run victory for the visitors.

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Coming up, the season reaches its crunch point with crucial points, places and titles on the line. In hardball cricket in West Yorkshire, the Division 1 title sees Bradford Park Avenue Ladies (135) ahead of Crossflatts (112) and with a game in hand.

North Leeds (109), Harrogate (104) and St Chads Broomfield (96) are all mathematically in with a shout, especially with 20pts up for grabs each game. Harrogate are at home to Bradford Park Avenue Ladies on Sunday 22 September on what could be a title decider.

In South Yorkshire, Tickhill have come top of the five-team Division 1 hardball competition with the last few matches of the Super Eights hardball contest ongoing (with Whiston Parish Church top from Eckington then Doncaster Town).