Kildwick Primary School are through to the North Yorkshire area final of the 2013 Drax Cup under-nines cricket competition.

The team beat Cowling in a play-off to win the South Craven School Sports Partnership and now face schools from across the region at Dunnington CC, near York on Wednesday, June 26.

The Drax Cup is the biggest cricket competition for under-nines in the country.

This year it has attracted a record 440 primary schools from across Yorkshire.

Teams play in a series of round-robin events to produce four area winners, one from each region of Yorkshire.

The quartet will then play the 2013 Drax Cup finals at Headingley on Tuesday, July 9.

The competition is sponsored by Drax and organised by The Yorkshire County Cricket Club in conjunction with Yorkshire Cricket Board, Yorkshire Schools’ Cricket Association and The Yorkshire Cricket Foundation.