Scarborough Cricket Club 1st XI captain Pat Roberts talked to Charlie Hopper about ambitions ahead of his first official season at North Marine Road, having joined in 2019. The former Barnard Castle wicket-keeper batsmen was left frustrated during the 2020 season with Scarborough fielding a team in the local Scarborough Beckett League. Roberts is gearing […]
A thousand wickets: 45 years of Sheffield league cricket
Richard Wells looks back at 45 years of league cricket in Sheffield and beyond. Cricket has been in my life from my earliest memories, on the beach at Filey with Grandad or in Hollinsend Park with brothers, cousins and school pals. We had old kit from Intake Methodist CC and it was expected we would […]
What’s it like playing club cricket in public parks?
Aden Biddle talks to Norton Woodseats about life as a cricket club who play in a public park. During the depths of winter in lockdown, it was possible to believe that summer would just never come. Rest assured it will and one sight that will be familiar is cricket being played in one of Yorkshire’s […]
Craven Cricket League faces umpiring crisis
With around six weeks to go until they hope to start the season, the Mewies Solicitors Craven League, which covers a large area from Bradford to East Lancashire, are facing an umpiring crisis. On Cricket Yorkshire, we’ll be looking at all aspect of recreational cricket, including how clubs and leagues encourage more umpires to start […]
Roses battles in the Ribblesdale Cricket League
Dave Edmundson shares his memories of the Yorkshire cricket clubs in the Ribblesdale Cricket League. The wooden door in the corner of the ground was flung open and our AWOL team member scurried across the top of the slope, half carrying and dragging his cricket bag past the bemused clutch of spectators sitting along the […]
How Sheffield Collegiate shaped Joe Root and Michael Vaughan
181 Tests, 13,968 runs, 37 100’s and now 51 Test wins as Captain. Joe Root and Michael Vaughan’s combined England Test stats are certainly impressive to behold, especially when considering that both started their cricketing career at the same club – Sheffield Collegiate. Will Slater asks: Is this mere coincidence, or is there something integral […]
Club cricket in 2020: Player loans and no teas
Aden Biddle reflects on what it was like to play in an adapted season due to Covid-19. From teas to going out on loan, what can we all learn? As the rain teems down outside my window here in Sheffield, Storm Alex is in full force. The rainfall has cancelled my remaining fixtures with only […]
3 Team Cricket comes to Yorkshire
Romel Lahiri shares the story of Asgard Vikings and their involvement this September in a new format called ‘3 Team Cricket’ where three teams compete in the same match. Asgard Vikings: History of an ‘accidental club’ On 10 September 2011, seven players (differing vastly in cricketing experience and skills) assembled for the first time to […]
Ben Rhydding joins Nidderdale Cricket League in 2021
Alex Miller, a committee member at Ben Rhydding Cricket Club, explains his club’s move to the Nidderdale Cricket League. Cricket clubs do change cricket leagues. It’s not revolutionary but there’s been two interesting examples with cricket clubs opting for something different in 2021. Ben Rhydding swapping Aire-Wharfe cricket for the Nidderdale Cricket League caught my […]
Can a cricket club survive just on cricket anymore?
Bill Marshall asks: can a cricket club survive these days merely by being a cricket club? Probably not, which is why Craven Cricket League club Hepworth & Idle have started and are continuing to spread their wings in different directions. They realise that to stand still is to go backwards and want to become an […]