QUEENSBURY'S Kirstin Smith has set a record for the most wickets taken by a woman in a Spenser Wilson Halifax League fixture.

In the second XI fixture at home to Stones last Saturday, the 25-year-old recorded figures of 13.2-4-56-8.

Kirstin, who took four years out of the game due to a knee injury and then heart surgery, has played cricket since she was eight, first at Illingworth St Mary's and then, from the age of 15, at Queensbury.

She has also represented Yorkshire Women at various age groups, including the LV Under-17 County Championship team of 2009.

Kirstin, a qualified Level Two coach who is head coach at The Cricket Asylum, Sowerby Bridge, returned to regular play this season and is an ever-present in Queensbury's second XI.

She is also secretary of the Halifax Junior Cricket League and is the league's under-13 coach for the Yorkshire Junior Cricket Festival (formerly Lord's Taverners).

Her bowling performance last Saturday was also the second-best for any player in the annals of Queensbury, formed in 2000 by the merger of Union Croft and Yews Green cricket clubs.

Uniquely Saturday's performance must stand as the best bowling performance ever in the UK by a woman at altitude! Queensbury's Old Guy Road is the highest ground in the country where regular league cricket is played at 1,186 feet (361.5 metres).