Transfer Centre: Yorkshire's ECB Premier Leagues 2016

Welcome to Cricket Yorkshire’s very own player transfer hub covering the four ECB leagues in Yorkshire.

It may interest many of you to find out who has moved clubs, and to what club, on the eve of the weekend where most cricket leagues across Yorkshire are meant to formally kick off their summer – though the weather has intervened.

Enjoy this preview of the transfer news for each of the Bradford Premier League, ECB Premier Premier League North, ECB Yorkshire South Premier League and the North Yorkshire & South Durham Cricket League.

YORKSHIRE PREMIER LEAGUE NORTH: Acomb, Castleford, Driffield, Dunnington, Harrogate, Hull, Scarborough, Sheriff Hutton Bridge, Stamford Bridge, Woodhouse Grange, York, Yorkshire Academy.

York have recruited strongly over winter with spinner Dan Woods returning to skipper and Duncan Snell strengthening the batting, along with Joe Ashdown who joins from Clifton Alliance.

Yorkshire County Cricket Club spinner Karl Carver joins Matthew Fisher’s club, Sheriff Hutton Bridge, while Ben Coad moves to Harrogate from his home club, Studley Royal.

  Full transfers:
Dan Woods – Hyde (Cheshire CL) to York
Duncan Snell – Woodlands (Bradford CL) to York
Matthew Good – New Farnley (Bradford CL) to Harrogate
Joe Ashdown – Clifton Alliance to York
Karl Carver – Sessay to Sheriff Hutton Bridge
Matthew Turnbull – Easingwold to York
Steve Sergeant – Fenner to Hull
Jack Storey – Hull Zingari to Hull
Richard Walton – Heworth to Woodhouse Grange
Ben Hatfield – Fenner to Hull
Jonathan Stevens – Clifton Alliance to Stamford Bridge
Ben Coad – Studley Royal to Harrogate
Eithan Litvin – New Rover (Aire Wharfe) to Harrogate
Pete Edmondson – Rowntrees & Huntington to Woodhouse Grange
Joe Hewitt – Fenner to Hull
Joe Schofield – Sheriff Hutton to Acomb
Mubtada Akhtar – Pudsey Congs (Bradford CL) to Dunnington
Casey Rudd – Bridlington to Driffield
Byron Grant – Sheffield and Phoenix United (YLS) to Castleford
Jonny Rawsthorne – Osbaldwick to Acomb
Luke Ramsay – Easingwold to Driffield
Thomas Power – Staxton (Scarborough Beckett) to Scarborough
Oliver Stephenson – Yeadon (Bradford CL) to Scarborough
Ben Elvidge – Hanging Heaton (Bradford CL) to Scarborough
Elliott Cooper – Staxton (Scarborough Beckett) to Scarborough
Freddie Collins – Castleford to Sheriff Hutton Bridge
George Saville – Hartshead Moor (Bradford CL) to Woodhouse Grange
Harry Stow – Frankton (Shropshire Premier) to Harrogate
Jordan Caley – Humbleton to Driffield Town

YORKSHIRE SOUTH PREMIER LEAGUE: Appleby Frodingham, Aston Hall, Barnsley, Cleethorpes, Doncaster Town, Rotherham Town, Sheffield Collegiate, Sheffield & Phoenix United, Treeton, Wakefield Thornes, Whitley Hall, Wickersley Old Village

It’s all been happening over winter in time for the beginning of the Yorkshire South Premier League’s 2016 season.

Sheffield & Phoenix United is a brand new club – the result of a merger – and have recruited Azeem Rafiq as their skipper.

A number of current or former professional cricketers have joined teams: Maurice Chambers from Northamptonshire, ex-Lancs and Essex seam bowler Saj Mahmood and Derbyshire’s Tom Knight.

Rotherham Town are the league’s most prolific club securing an incredible 15 signings while Wickersley Old Village have strengthened their squad with eight new faces.

Full transfers: (OS denotes overseas player)  

Ian Snowden – Scunthorpe Town to Appleby Frodingham
Chris Groenink – (Appleby Frodingham OS)
Nick Smitt – (Aston Hall OS)
Maurice Chambers – Northamptonshire CCC to Aston Hall
Oliver Jackson – Conisborough to Barnsley
Dan Waldron – Darley to Barnsley
Harvey Wooton – Wath to Barnsley
Zohaib Amhad – (Barnsley OS)
Wesley Marshall – (Cleethorpes OS)
George Carlton – to Cleethorpes
Matt Cliffe – to Cleethorpes
Michael Topp – (Doncaster Town OS)
James Ward – Darfield to Doncaster Town
Will Street – (Rotherham to Doncaster Town
Scott Hibbett – Wath to Rotherham Town
Sajid Mahmood – Ainsdale to Rotherham Town
Zashad Arshad – to Rotherham Town
Irfan Mirza – Treeton to Rotherham Town
Sufyan Sayed – Treeton to Rotherham Town
Siviwe Gidana – (Rotherham Town OS)
Jordan Shutt – Wath to Rotherham Town
Neil Spruce – Mexborough to Rotherham Town
Jaan Shanaka – Mexborough to Rotherham Town
Adam Hayton – Newton Hill to Rotherham Town
Will Hayton – Newton Hill to Rotherham Town
Zaheer Mirza – Norton Woodseats to Rotherham Town
Israr Asif – Norton Woodseats to Rotherham Town
Naved Kanwal – Norton Woodseats to Rotherham Town
Scott Mantovani – Askern Welfare to Rotherham Town
Elliot Callis – Yorkshire Academy to Sheffield Collegiate
Azeem Rafiq – Barnsley to Sheffield & Phoenix United
Daniel Rafiq – Barnsley to Sheffield & Phoenix United
Jaymish Patel – Birstall to Sheffield & Phoenix United
Archie Ogden – Wath to Treeton
Sam Drury – Wath to Treeton
Greg Wadsworth – Shelley to Wakefield Thornes
Akila Isanka (Wakefield Thornes OS)
James Moorhouse – Rotherham Town to Whitley Hall
Ben Sanderson – Rotherham Town to Whitley Hall
Callum Bethel – Barnsley to Whitley Hall
Pieter Swanepoel – Woodlands to Whitley Hall
Stuart Guy – Doncaster Town to Wickersley Old Village
Mark Cummins – Rotherham Town to Wickersley Old Village
Vinny Ogden – Rotherham Town to Wickersley Old Village
Dave Rodgers – Coal Aston to Wickersley Old Village
Liam Johnson – Coal Aston to Wickersley Old Village
Tom Knight – Alvaston & Boulton to Wickersley Old Village
Lewis Brown – Doncaster Town to Wickersley Old Village
Tom Pinson – (Wickersley Old Village OS)

BRADFORD PREMIER LEAGUE: Pudsey St Lawrence, Woodlands, Cleckheaton, Hanging Heaton, Pudsey Congs, New Farnley, Bradford & Bingley, Lightcliffe, East Bierley, Farsley, Scholes, Morley.

With the Central Yorkshire Cricket League merging into the Bradford Cricket League, there’s been a glut of transfers, those involved in the top flight are listed below.

Notable moves include two signings by New Farnley – Simon Lambert joins from York and Richard Foster has left Methley.

**The Bradford Premier League’s opening round of fixtures this weekend (Sat 16 April) have been postponed en masse due to a number of grounds being too wet and unfit to use yet.

Full transfers:  
Muhammad Saeed – Buttershaw St. Pauls to Pudsey Congs
Umar Rehman – Birstall to Hanging Heaton
Ross Irving – Queensbury to Cleckheaton
Mitesh Chhana – Buttershaw St Pauls to Cleckheaton
Simon Lambert – York to New Farnley
Chris Hill – New Farnley to Lightcliffe
Richard Atkins – East Bierley to New Farnley
Sam Gardner – Northowram Hedge Top to Lightcliffe
Max Gardner – Northowram Hedge Top to Lightcliffe
Mustafa Rafique – Pudsey Congs to Farsley
Christopher Holliday – Townville to Cleckheaton
Yassir Abbas – Hoylandswaine to Bradford & Bingley
Liam Brearley – Undercliffe to Woodlands
Tim Jackson – Cleckheaton to Woodlands
Kieran Collins – Brighouse to Woodlands
Kez Ahmed – Pudsey Congs to Woodlands
Gareth Duckworth – Undercliffe to Woodlands
Alex Atkinson – Penrith to Woodlands
Josh Wheatley – Lightcliffe to Pudsey Congs
Robert Barker – Hunslet Nelson to East Bierley
Fahid Rehman – Methley to East Bierley
Gopal Makwana – Brighouse to Pudsey Congs
Robert McFarlane – Birstall to Hanging Heaton
Richard Foster – Methley to Hanging Heaton
Thomas Chippendale – Ossett to Hanging Heaton
George Heartfield – Keighley to Bradford & Bingley
Matthew Walker – Lowerhouse to Bradford & Bingley
Jack Edgar – Great Harwood to Bradford & Bingley
Arslan Mahmood – Undercliffe to Farsley
Adam Ahmed – Undercliffe to Farsley
James Pickles – Follifoot to Farsley

NORTH YORKSHIRE & SOUTH DURHAM CRICKET LEAGUE: Richmondshire, Great Ayton, Stokesley, Barnard Castle, Marske, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Darlington, Guisborough, Normanby Hall, Norton, Seaton Carew, Billingham Synthonia

For the highest placed Yorkshire team this season lies the carrot of a semi-final at Headingley, as the NYSDL representative, against the champions of the Bradford Cricket League.

Should a team from the North Yorkshire & South Durham Cricket League side prevail, they jet out to Abu Dhabi in late October for a day/night final in the Sheik Zayed Cricket Stadium against the other semi-finalists.

As for league honours, Richmondshire remain the team to beat – gunning for their fourth title in five years – with Gary Pratt at the helm and having retained their squad from 2015.

Chris Allinson – Guisborough to Great Ayton
Tom Urwin – Marton to Marske
Sam Taylor-Gell – South Shields to Seaton Carew
Dale Metcalfe – Redcar to Hartlepool
Dale Marshall – Normanby Hall to Darlington
Alan Baird – Stockton to Great Ayton
Karl Turner – Guisborough to Barnard Castle
Mark Woodhead – Marsden to Newton Aycliffe
Mark Davies – Wolviston to Norton
Adam I’Anson – DRA to Darlington
Nathan Wright – Richmondshire to Darlington
Matthew Cowling – Brandon to Richmondshire
Toby Lush – Richmondshire to Darlington
Rafiz Rashid – Marton to Middlesbrough
Adam Greenwell – Wolviston to Billingham
Shahid Khan – Normanby Hall to Billingham
Enamel Haque Jnr – Wolverhampton to Guisborough
Michael Alexander – Stokesley to Middlesbrough

PROFESSIONALS/PLAYER COACHES

Chris Batchelor – Great Ayton
James Finch – Barnard Castle
Usman Arshad – Seaton Carew
Lewis Stabler – Hartlepool
Lee Hodgson – Marske
Saeed Bin Nasir – Marske
Toby Bulcock – Richmondshire
Liam Coates – Darlington
Enamel Haque Jnr – Guisborough
Ryan Gibson – Normanby Hall
Doug Mulholland – Stokesley
James Weighell – Stokesley

OVERSEAS AMATEURS

Parth Patel – Great Ayton
Tanveer Javed – Seaton Carew
Rizwan Ullah – Darlington
Francois Kroukamp – Normanby Hall
Matthew Perilli – Marton
Lachlan Pfeffer – Barnard Castle
Jonathan Carson – Hartlepool
Jack Craig – Stokesley