About

Connecting women and girls playing cricket today with their fabulous but forgotten sporting heritage, THIS GIRL DID brings parallel stories of Bradford’s sporting achievements to life. Teenage cricketer Zainab and her cricket-mad Nana, dream of her being the first Bradford lass to captain Yorkshire, unaware that someone else got there first!

Meet Kathleen, Dot and Annie; 1930s Bradford millworkers determined to start playing cricket. Can Hannah Drake, the city’s first female politician, open the club-house doors for the ladies? Will crickets’ fairy godmother Betty Snowball arrive in time with an inspirational team talk?

Discover how West Yorkshire first led the charge for women and girls in cricket a century ago and join-in today’s female cricket revolution.

Directed by Aisha Khan Produced by Henri Duckworth

Supported by

Bradford Producing Hub, Kala Sangam, Yorkshire Cricket Board, West Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League, Women & Girls Cricket West Yorkshire

This project is part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, supported by West Yorkshire Combined Authority | Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire and funded by Bradford Council.