Yorkshire Cricket Board

Yorkshire girls u13s have been crowned County Champions for 2015. The age group have now won the Championship three years running and have been unbeaten in 39 games.

Having beaten Hampshire in the semi finals by 5 wickets they played Essex in the Final.
Yorkshire elected to bowl first and bowled Essex out in the 27th over restricting them to just 76 runs. There was economical bowling from all the Yorkshire bowlers with Rachel Slater 3 wickets for 14 runs from 7 overs, Fenella Hibbert 2 wickets for 22 from 7 overs and Amy Jobling 2 wickets for 8 from 5 overs.

The Yorkshire batters made a quick start to chasing down the target and scored 79 for the loss of just 2 wickets in 20.1 overs. Leah Dobson 18 Fran Goldthorp 26* and Poppy Scholefield 12* . The finals were played at Denby CC Derbyshire.

Manager Jane Hildreth commented ''The 2015 season has been a remarkable season for the u13s squad of players. All have contributed to the success of the team which made selections for the finals very hard for Coach Wendy Brown and myself.We are so very proud of all the girls and want to thank everyone for the support the girls have been given.''

A video of finals day capturing the winning performances can be viewed here WATCH VIDEO

The 2015 Championship winning team are:
Rachel Slater Captain
Ophelia Watson Wicket Keeper
Leah Dobson
Georgia Draper
Annie Cardwell
Poppy Scholefield
Emma Brown
Fran Goldthorp
Amy Jobling
Libby Fox
Katie Baines
Fenella Hibbert

Also featuring in the 2015 Squad have been:
Phoebe Turner
Grace Hall
Chloe Jones
Katherine Walker
Rebecca Coe