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| League | ECB Women's Tier 1 |
|---|---|
| Personnel | |
| Captain | Lauren Winfield Hill |
| Coach | Richard Pyrah |
| Team information | |
| Founded | UnknownFirst recorded match: 1935 |
| Home ground | Headingley Stadium,Leeds |
| History | |
| WCC wins | 6 |
| T20 Cup wins | 0 |
| WOD League 2 wins | 1 |
| Official website | [1] |
TheYorkshire Women's cricket team is the women'scricket team for the Englishhistoric county ofYorkshire. They play their home games atHeadingley Stadium,Leeds, and are captained byLauren Winfield-Hill.
As of the start of the 2025 season Yorkshire Women will play their cricket in Tier 2 of the new division set up after Project Darwin.[1]In 2026 they will move up to Tier 1 of the new division.
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 asLancashire, as well as against touring sides such asAustralia andNew Zealand.[2] Yorkshire joined theWomen'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.[3]
Yorkshire joined theWomen's County Championship for its inaugural season in1997, and won five of the first six titles, their run only interrupted byEast Midlands in1999.[4] Key for Yorkshire in this period were players such asKathryn Leng andMelissa Reynard.[5] Soon after this successful period, however, Yorkshire fell away and were relegated in2005, and then again in2007, ending up in Division 3.[6] Their return was swift, however, as they were promoted twice, in2008 and2009, including an unbeaten season in Division Two.[7]
Ever since, Yorkshire have played in Division One of the Championship, winning the title once more, in2015. Yorkshire topped Division One with 6 wins from 8 games, and bowlerKatie Levick was the second-highest wicket-taker in the division, with 20 at an average of just 9.65.[8][9] Yorkshire also recorded three 2nd place finishes in a row, between2017 and2019.[10]
Yorkshire have also competed in theWomen's Twenty20 Cup since 2009. In2010, they reached the Final but lost toBerkshire by 46 runs.[11] In the following two seasons, Yorkshire reached the semi-finals, but lost to Berkshire again in2011 and toSussex in2012.[12][13] Yorkshire came close to winning the title again in2015, finishing the season joint on point with winners Sussex, but with a marginally worse Net Run Rate.[14] Yorkshire struggled over following seasons, and were relegated in2018 before finishing 4th in Division Two in2019.[15] In 2021, they competed in the North Group of the Twenty20 Cup, finishing 4th with two wins and six matches abandoned due to rain.[16] They reached the Group 1 final in the2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup, but lost toLancashire.[17] In the2023 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.[18] In 2024, the side finished 3rd in their group in theTwenty20 Cup and 4th in their group in the newECB Women's County One-Day tournament.[19][20]
In 2019, they played in Division One of the final season of theWomen's County Championship, and have since competed in theWomen's Twenty20 Cup.[21] Yorkshire have contributed some players to making up aNorth Representative XI, and they were partnered with the regional sideNorthern Diamonds.[22][23]
Between 2020 and 2024 the professional players within the Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland regions played for theNorthern Diamonds. During this period Yorkshire Women's team still existed but as a non professional team.
Based on the Yorkshire Women team page for the 2026 season. ‡ denotes players with international caps.[24]
| Name | Nationality | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes | |
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| Batters | ||||||
| Sterre Kalis ‡ |  Netherlands | (1999-08-30)30 August 1999 (age 26) | Right-handed | Unknown | Pro – 2027 | |
| Ami Campbell |  England | (1991-06-06)6 June 1991 (age 34) | Left-handed | unknown | Pro – 2027 | |
| Rebecca Duckworth | England | (2000-10-30)30 October 2000 (age 25) | Right-handed | Unknown | Pro – 2026 | |
| All-rounders | ||||||
| Beth Langston ‡ | England | (1992-09-06)6 September 1992 (age 33) | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | Pro – 2026 | |
| Erin Thomas | England | (2006-06-26)26 June 2006 (age 19) | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | Rookie – 2026 | |
| Grace Hall | England | (2002-12-24)24 December 2002 (age 22) | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | Pro – 2026 | |
| Jessica Woolston | England | (2003-02-25)25 February 2003 (age 22) | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | Pro – 2026 | |
| Ria Fackrell | England | (1999-09-16)16 September 1999 (age 26) | Right-handed | right-armoff break | Pro – 2027 | |
| Jess Jonassen ‡ |  Australia | (1992-06-11)11 June 1992 (age 33) | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | Overseas 2026 | |
| Sarah Glenn ‡ | England | (1999-08-07)7 August 1999 (age 26) | Right-handed | Right-armleg break | Pro - 2027 | |
| Wicket-keepers | ||||||
| Lauren Winfield-Hill ‡ | England | (1990-08-16)16 August 1990 (age 35) | Right-handed | – | Pro – 2028 | |
| Maddie Ward | England | (2005-01-19)19 January 2005 (age 20) | Right-handed | – | Pro – 2027 | |
| Bowlers | ||||||
| Rachel Slater ‡ |  Scotland | (2001-11-20)20 November 2001 (age 24) | Right-handed | Left-armmedium | Pro – 2027 | |
| Claudie Cooper | England | (2002-05-01)1 May 2002 (age 23) | Right-handed | right-armoff break | Pro – 2026 | |
| Hannah Rainey | England | (1997-06-02)2 June 1997 (age 28) | Right-handed | right-armmedium | Pro – 2027 | |
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
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
Players who have played for Yorkshire and played internationally are listed below, in order of first international appearance (given in brackets):[26]
Mona Greenwood (1937)Mary Duggan (1949)Mary Johnson (1949)Barbara Wood (1949)Margaret Lockwood (1951)Polly Marshall (1954)Ruth Westbrook (1957)Helen Sharpe (1957)Mollie Hunt (1960)Lesley Clifford (1966)June Stephenson (1966)Rosemary Goodchild (1966)Jill Need (1968)Julia Greenwood (1973)Sue Hilliam (1973)Margaret Peear (1979)Janet Tedstone (1979)Karen Jobling (1982)Jane Powell (1984)Sue Metcalfe (1984)Jill Stockdale (1984)Gillian Smith (1986)Amanda Stinson (1986)Joan Lee (1986)
Mary-Pat Moore (1987)Debra Maybury (1988)Clare Taylor (1988)Cathy Cooke (1989)Helen Plimmer (1989)Jet van Noortwijk (1989)Alison Elder (1990)Linda Burnley (1990)Kathryn Leng (1995)Melissa Reynard (1995)Bev Nicholson (1996)Nicola Holt (1996)Laura Spragg (1999)Helen Wardlaw (2002)Jenny Gunn (2004)Katherine Brunt (2004)Danielle Hazell (2009)Alyssa Healy (2010)Liz Perry (2010)Lauren Winfield-Hill (2013)Beth Langston (2013)
Leigh Kasperek (2015)Beth Mooney (2016)Becky Glen (2018)Rachel Slater (2022)Bess Heath (2023)Hollie Armitage (2024)
Katie Thompson (2025)| Season | Division | League standings[27] | Notes | |||||||
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| P | W | L | T | A/C | BP | Pts | Pos | |||
| 1997 | Division 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 101 | 1st | Champions |
| 1998 | Division 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 100 | 1st | Champions |
| 1999 | Division 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 40.5 | 76.5 | 2nd | |
| 2000 | Division 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 102 | 1st | Champions |
| 2001 | Division 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40.5 | 100.5 | 1st | Champions |
| 2002 | Division 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23.5 | 81.5 | 1st | Champions |
| 2003 | Division 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 34.5 | 58.5 | 4th | |
| 2004 | Division 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 36.5 | 72.5 | 3rd | |
| 2005 | Division 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 24.5 | 58.5 | 4th | Relegated |
| 2006 | Division 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 74 | 2nd | |
| 2007 | Division 2 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 24 | 4th | Relegated |
| 2008 | Division 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 110 | 1st | Promoted |
| 2009 | Division 2 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 200 | 1st | Promoted |
| 2010 | Division 1 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 103 | 4th | |
| 2011 | Division 1 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 34 | 74 | 4th | |
| 2012 | Division 1 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 8th | |
| 2013 | Division 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 111 | 2nd | |
| 2014 | Division 1 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 35 | 55 | 7th | |
| 2015 | Division 1 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 47 | 107 | 1st | Champions |
| 2016 | Division 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 34 | 74 | 4th | |
| 2017 | Division 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 98 | 2nd | |
| 2018 | Division 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 106 | 2nd | |
| 2019 | Division 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 93 | 2nd | |
| Season | Division | League standings[28] | Notes | |||||||
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| P | W | L | T | A/C | NRR | Pts | Pos | |||
| 2009 | Division 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −0.05 | 3 | 3rd | |
| 2010 | Division M&N 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1.64 | 6 | 1st | Runners-up |
| 2011 | Division M&N 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2.30 | 6 | 1st | Lost semi-final |
| 2012 | Division M&N 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0.80 | 6 | 1st | Lost semi-final |
| 2013 | Division M&N 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | +0.09 | 4 | 2nd | |
| 2014 | Division 1C | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | +0.94 | 8 | 4th | |
| 2015 | Division 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | +0.51 | 24 | 2nd | |
| 2016 | Division 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | +0.79 | 10 | 6th | |
| 2017 | Division 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | −0.21 | 12 | 7th | |
| 2018 | Division 1 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | −0.66 | 8 | 8th | Relegated |
| 2019 | Division 2 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1.34 | 18 | 4th | |
| 2021 | North | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +3.89 | 14 | 4th | |
| 2022 | Group 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | –0.20 | 16 | 2nd | Lost final |
| 2023 | Group 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +0.00 | 6 | 6th | |
| 2024 | Group 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | +0.44 | 69 | 3rd | |
| Season | Group | League standings[29] | Notes | |||||||
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| 2024 | Group 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4th | |
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