A month after Yorkshire lost out to Durham in their bid to host a Tier One professional women’s team, 7,500 spectators defied the England and Wales Cricket Board’s verdict by filing into Headingley to watch England defeat Pakistan by 34 runs in the third and final Women’s Twenty20.
England rarely play in this part of the world – the most recent women’s international here took place in 2018 – but they served up a treat for the locals. A Danni Wyatt special – 87 runs hammered from 48 balls, 54 of them in boundaries – and the chance to see Pakistan make a semi-decent fist of the run-chase for the first time in the series.
