She’s the Dutch maestro Sterre-ing things up with the bat
Netherlands international Sterre Kalis signed an initial three-year contract with Yorkshire ahead of 2025, with the option for a longer stay at Headingley.
Kalis has called Leeds home since 2020 – the start of the regional era – playing five seasons with the Northern Diamonds, and she was very keen to continue her journey at Headingley.
Head coach Rich Pyrah has high hopes for the top order batter, no surprise really given her form during the second half of 2024 especially, both at home and abroad.
Kalis, aged 26, hit a superb maiden List A century – exactly 100 – for the Diamonds in a Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy clash with arch-rivals Lancashire Thunder at Southport in September before jetting off to Sydney for a winter of grade cricket with Gordon CC.
In another 50-over fixture, prior to Christmas, she hit an eye-catching 136 for them.
Kalis spent the majority of 2025 away from Headingley, on loan at Warwickshire playing Tier 1 cricket, but she still made some valuable contributions in White Rose colours.
She played 13 matches for her parent county, scoring three fifties. One was a scintillating best of 83 not out in May’s Vitality County Cup T20 win over Essex at Headingley, another a more measured 65 not out in the semi-final of the Metro Bank One-Day Cup in September, a victory over Middlesex which helped set up title glory.
Kalis is a versatile, classy right-hander who can open and bat in the top order
In late 2020, she was nominated by the ICC for their women’s Associate cricketer of the decade award. Little wonder. Two years earlier, she had set a world record for the highest individual score in a women’s T20 international – 126 not out in a clash with Germany.
That record has since been broken by the likes of Meg Lanning and Alyssa Healy.
Kalis has represented her country 67 times across both 50-over and T20 cricket and will represent them at this summer’s T20 World Cup in England. The Dutch came through a qualifying event in Nepal in January just gone, Kalis posting a best of 87 not out in seven appearances.
She signed her first professional contract with the Diamonds ahead of 2022.
UPDATED: Feb 2026.
