{"id":544866,"date":"2026-04-22T15:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544866\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:43:08","slug":"bradford-cricket-club-penalised-for-girls-team-failings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544866\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford cricket club penalised for girls&#8217; team failings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said: &#8220;In exchange for ECB funding, Premier Leagues need to meet specific criteria which are designed to promote strong clubs, rather than a short-term focus solely on having strong teams. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is good for the health of the clubs and the game more generally. One of these criteria relates to clubs having a girls&#8217; section.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the Bradford Premier League, there are bursaries available for women who attend an ECB coaching course, and information sessions were held for all clubs in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The spokesperson added: &#8220;Where clubs do not deliver against the criteria and fail to evidence any work in addressing these issues, we would expect leagues to impose the relevant penalties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jer Lane was established in 1923. It has two senior sides in the Gordon Rigg Bradford Cricket League and two junior sides in the Halifax Junior Cricket League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By 31 October 2026 clubs will be required to have a girls-only cricket programme and to have played one girls&#8217; fixture indoor or outdoor, softball or hardball, competitive or friendly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jer Lane Cricket Club did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They said: &#8220;In exchange for ECB funding, Premier Leagues need to meet specific criteria which are designed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-544866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}