The Sporting Weekend with Nick Westby: Women's World Cup, Yorkshire Cricket Club and more

The Sporting Weekend with Nick Westby (28/7/23)

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00:00 Hello and welcome back to Downtown Rotherham and inside the Yorkshire Post Sports Desk epicentre.

00:04 I'm Sports Editor Nick Westby here with an inside look in the Yorkshire Post Sports Weekend supplement.

00:09 Cricket leads the way.

00:11 We've got reaction to from Yorkshire and our cricket writer Chris Waters,

00:15 the CDC hearings, which have finally given their verdict on what points and financial punishment

00:21 Yorkshire will receive for the races of scandal.

00:24 We'll have news from the Oval on day two of the Ashes test

00:27 and whether any play was possible at Scarborough between Yorkshire and Durham.

00:31 Rugby league wise, it's a busy night.

00:34 Leeds Rhinos head to St. Helens,

00:36 Wild Castleford entertain Hull KR in Super League.

00:39 James O'Brien is at that one and he's looking ahead to Wakefield against Warrington on Sunday.

00:44 Football wise, we'll have news from Australia where the Lionesses have just beaten Denmark 1-0 in their second World Cup group game.

00:53 Plus we'll keep counting down to the football season, which kicks off in just over a week's time.

00:58 Elsewhere, we've got big interviews with Demi Dowley,

01:01 the female head coach of the men's senior team at Ben Ridding Hockey Club,

01:05 proving that a woman can be successful coaching a man's team.

01:09 We also hear from James Curtin, a former Olympic swimmer from Barnsley,

01:13 and we'll have news from the rest of the world of sport, cycling, athletics, basketball and Formula One.

01:19 Have a fantastic sporting weekend.