Yorkshire Women cricket team

History

1935–1996: Early History

Yorkshire Women played their first recorded match in 1935, against Yorkshire Cricket Federation Women. They went on to play various one-off matches, often against neighbouring teams such as Lancashire, as well as against touring sides such as Australia and New Zealand. Yorkshire joined the Women's Area Championship in 1980, and played in the competition until it ended in 1996. Yorkshire won the Area Championship six times, including all of the final five tournaments.

1997– : Women's County Championship

Yorkshire joined the Women's County Championship for its inaugural season in 1997, and won five of the first six titles, their run only interrupted by East Midlands in 1999. Key for Yorkshire in this period were players such as Kathryn Leng and Melissa Reynard. Soon after this successful period, however, Yorkshire fell away and were relegated in 2005, and then again in 2007, ending up in Division 3. Their return was swift, however, as they were promoted twice, in 2008 and 2009, including an unbeaten season in Division Two.

Ever since, Yorkshire have played in Division One of the Championship, winning the title once more, in 2015. Yorkshire topped Division One with 6 wins from 8 games, and bowler Katie Levick was the second-highest wicket-taker in the division, with 20 at an average of just 9.65. Yorkshire also recorded three 2nd place finishes in a row, between 2017 and 2019.

Yorkshire have also competed in the Women's Twenty20 Cup since 2009. In 2010, they reached the Final but lost to Berkshire by 46 runs. In the following two seasons, Yorkshire reached the semi-finals, but lost to Berkshire again in 2011 and to Sussex in 2012. Yorkshire came close to winning the title again in 2015, finishing the season joint on point with winners Sussex, but with a marginally worse Net Run Rate. Yorkshire struggled over following seasons, and were relegated in 2018 before finishing 4th in Division Two in 2019. In 2021, they competed in the North Group of the Twenty20 Cup, finishing 4th with two wins and six matches abandoned due to rain. They reached the Group 1 final in the 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup, but lost to Lancashire. In the 2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup, after all of their initial group stage matches were rained-off, they won one of two matches on a group finals day. In 2024, the side finished 3rd in their group in the Twenty20 Cup and 4th in their group in the new ECB Women's County One-Day tournament.

In 2019, they played in Division One of the final season of the Women's County Championship, and have since competed in the Women's Twenty20 Cup. Yorkshire have contributed some players to making up a North Representative XI, and they were partnered with the regional side Northern Diamonds.

2020 – 2024 : Regional Professional Team - [[Northern Diamonds]]

Between 2020 and 2024 the professional players within the Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland regions played for the Northern Diamonds. During this period Yorkshire Women's team still existed but as a non professional team.

Players

Current squad

• No. denotes the player's squad number, as worn on the back of their shirt.
• denotes players with international caps.

2026 Yorkshire Women's Academy Players {{cite web |url=https://yorkshireccc.com/academy/ |title=Academy and EPP |website=YCCC |access-date=19 Nov 2025}}

Alice Acklam, Amelia Kemp, Amelia Love, Amelia Oliver, Elicia Pollard, Ellie Nightingale, Holly Garton, Ines Blackwell, Jeanie Lee, Lucy Randle Bissell, Maiya Charlesworth, Nat Brown, Olivia Breese

2026 Yorkshire Women's Emerging Player Programme (EPP)

Anishka Nayak, Anushri Wadehra, Ashwin Krishnan, Chiara Kariyawasan, Eva Venn, Florrie McKenna, India Leach, Izzy Fidler, Libby Fellows, Lois George, Maiya Shaw, Poppy Smith, Sophia Horsfall Samb

Notable players

Players who have played for Yorkshire and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):

• ENG Mona Greenwood (1937)
• ENG Mary Duggan (1949)
• ENG Mary Johnson (1949)
• ENG Barbara Wood (1949)
• ENG Margaret Lockwood (1951)
• ENG Polly Marshall (1954)
• ENG Ruth Westbrook (1957)
• ENG Helen Sharpe (1957)
• ENG Mollie Hunt (1960)
• ENG Lesley Clifford (1966)
• ENG June Stephenson (1966)
• ENG Rosemary Goodchild (1966)
• AUS Jill Need (1968)
• ENG Julia Greenwood (1973)
• ENG Sue Hilliam (1973)
• ENG Margaret Peear (1979)
• ENG Janet Tedstone (1979)
• ENG Karen Jobling (1982)
• ENG Jane Powell (1984)
• ENG Sue Metcalfe (1984)
• ENG Jill Stockdale (1984)
• ENG Gillian Smith (1986)
• ENG Amanda Stinson (1986)
• ENG Joan Lee (1986)
• IRE Mary-Pat Moore (1987)
• ENG Debra Maybury (1988)
• ENG Clare Taylor (1988)
• ENG Cathy Cooke (1989)
• ENG Helen Plimmer (1989)
• Netherlands Jet van Noortwijk (1989)
• ENG Alison Elder (1990)
• ENG Linda Burnley (1990)
• ENG Kathryn Leng (1995)
• ENG Melissa Reynard (1995)
• ENG Bev Nicholson (1996)
• ENG Nicola Holt (1996)
• ENG Laura Spragg (1999)
• ENG Helen Wardlaw (2002)
• ENG Jenny Gunn (2004)
• ENG Katherine Brunt (2004)
• ENG Danielle Hazell (2009)
• AUS Alyssa Healy (2010)
• AUS Liz Perry (2010)
• ENG Lauren Winfield-Hill (2013)
• ENG Beth Langston (2013)
• NZ Leigh Kasperek (2015)
• AUS Beth Mooney (2016)
• SCO Becky Glen (2018)
• SCO Rachel Slater (2022)
• ENG Bess Heath (2023)
• ENG Hollie Armitage (2024)
• UAE Katie Thompson (2025)

Seasons

Women's County Championship

Women's Twenty20 Cup

ECB Women's County One-Day

Honours

• Women's Area Championship:
  • Champions (6) – 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
• County Championship:
  • Division One Champions (6) – 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2015

References

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