08/06/2026
What a day we had hosting West Yorkshire Women and Girls Cricket division women's softball festival at Colton Sports and Social Club! Bets placed early in the week predicted the rain would be the only winner but nope, it stayed away and the sun even came out as well.
It was brilliant to see so many women's and girl's teams having a great time playing cricket, and it was too close to call in both group stages in the middle of the day. Even at the end of the group stages we weren't quite sure who was in the final as play cricket wasn't playing at all 🤦♀️, but the Colton Cricket Club and Hunslet Nelson Cricket Club women were thrilled when all became clear! Hunslet played with 7 after losing a player early in the day to a nasty knee injury, and after a fantastic fielding innings holding Hunslet's runs at bay, the home team romped home in the batting to bring the trophy back after it's year's sabbatical at Hunslet. Well done ladies you were awesome!🥰🥂💪🥳🥳🥳🏏🏏🏏🍻🍻🍻
Thanks to the league for getting the festival organised and all at Colton who helped get the day going. The several weeks of planning, organising and too many whatsapp messages to count were all worth it!
The ground looked fab thanks to an early start by the grounds team, the women's team, friends and families did their usual round of delicious home baking and donating raffle prizes, and we welcomed back Owen for his 3rd year as BBQ king 👑 cooking delicious food from Malcolm Michaels butchers in Crossgates. We couldn't do this without everyone pulling together 🥰🥂💪 and that's what its all about.
Well done to all 8 teams for getting there with players, umpires, scorers and supporters, and thanks to our umpires who helped out other teams to get the game on.
Colton and Hunslet will go forward to the next stage of the competition in July and hopefully Leeds East proud as they play against the other division winners across the region. Good luck to all!
