As Sara Begg reports, a new West Yorkshire women’s softball league is up and running. New for 2022, the softball league has 20 teams taking part, regionalised into groups: Leeds, Calderdale, Huddersfield, Aire Valley and Bradford. Sunday 15 May 2022 marked a historic occasion as four Huddersfield clubs went head-to-head in the inaugural round of […]
South Yorkshire Alliance Works Midweek League launches
Mark Simmerson rounds up the team news with the debut season for the South Yorkshire Alliance Works Midweek League in 2022. The pandemic has changed the world and cricket has not been immune. The last two seasons have been difficult for local leagues and particularly awkward for midweek cricket leagues. But we have survived and […]
How to Prepare a Cricket Ground for the Season
How to prepare a cricket ground for the season is a comprehensive guide by Brian Sandalls, Award-winning Groundsperson at Sussex Cricket and founder of TurfCareBlog. It covers the transition from a cold and wet Winter, hopefully into a warmer pre-season period, with guidance on preparing squares and outfield. Preparing the Square Cleaning up of the […]
Walking cricket proves popular in Leeds as its growth continues
Liz Billings celebrates the popularity of walking cricket in Yorkshire and explains how it has taken off in Leeds. I finally got to scratch that itch when I found ‘walking cricket’. I’ve always loved both playing and watching sport. My love of cricket was born playing in the ginnels – alleyways, to some – with […]
Bradford Mutual Sunday School: New teams & £2,000 cash prizes
The Bradford Mutual Sunday School Cricket League, BMSSCL for short, is one of the oldest recreational leagues in West Yorkshire. Jonaid Khan, Commercial Secretary for the League, shares changes for 2022 including a bumper cash prize. Its roots date back to 1896 and the seventh season of County Championship cricket in England when, incidentally, Yorkshire […]
All-girls MCC Foundation hubs coming to Leeds & Bradford
January will see the launch of all-girls talent hubs in Leeds and Bradford as part of the national development of pathways for women’s cricket. There are currently 74 hubs across the UK, including 13 in Yorkshire. Hull, York, Sheffield, Wakefield and Scarborough are other areas covered with either mixed, all-boys or all-girls sessions. The bespoke […]