Durham Women cricket team

Durham Women
Team information
FoundedUnknown
First recorded match: 1930
Home groundVarious
Including Green Lane Cricket Ground, Durham
History
WCC wins0
T20 Cup wins0
Official websiteDurham Cricket

The Durham Women's cricket team is the women's representative cricket team for the English historic county of Durham. They play their home games at various grounds across the county, including Green Lane Cricket Ground, Durham and Park Drive, Hartlepool.[1] They competed in the Women's County Championship from 2001 to 2019 and in the Women's Twenty20 Cup from 2009 to 2019.[2] In 2020, it was announced that Durham was merging its team with Northumberland, becoming North East Warriors.[3] They wre partnered with the regional side Northern Diamonds.[4]

In 2024, Durham were selected as one of the eight counties to become a 'tier 1' professional women's cricket side from 2025, with all home matches to be played at the Riverside Ground.[5]

  1. ^ "Durham Women Scorecards". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  2. ^ "ECB Women's County Championship". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Danielle Hazell heads up North East women's high performance pathway". Durham Cricket. 24 October 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Northern Diamonds". Yorkshire CCC. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  5. ^ Raf Nicholson (18 April 2024). "Durham selected ahead of Yorkshire to host professional women's county team". The Guardian.