Aden Biddle offers his thoughts on some of the challenges facing players further down the leagues as well as clubs battling to continue. There a lingering conundrum facing some each season on whether merging with another club is the best route. Aden has played club cricket in Shropshire, Worcestershire, West Wales, Kent and now in […]
Yorkshire Deaf cricket team returns to county action
Michael Pulford is a retired Teacher of the Deaf and helping to coordinate a revival of the Yorkshire Deaf cricket team. Here, he gives a detailed insight into the Yorkshire club cricketers who are pushing their county credentials, as well as the coaches and mentors breathing new life into deaf county cricket in the region. […]
Travelling Exiles find reason for cheer in East Yorkshire cricket
Through his charity side’s exploits this summer in East Yorkshire, Dan Davis discovers cricket retains its appeal for all ages and can still win round a younger audience. ** September 2018. A thought pops into my 43-year-old brain. ‘I know, I’ll form a brand new cricket side consisting of former players in the Hull area […]
Pork pies and port as West Riding Cricket Club reach 70 not out
There is a magic to the multitude of roving cricket sides who bag informal games across the region where they can find opposition. I particularly savoured social cricket at Bolton Abbey with Hawks and Druids. Here, Bill Marshall explores a match to celebrate West Riding Cricket Club reaching a notable landmark. There are fathers and […]
John Heald: My favourite cricket photos of 2019
John Heald is a brilliant cricket photographer whose work regularly appears on Cricket Yorkshire as well as our social media channels. Unusually, he covers the full spectrum from the epic Ashes Test at Headingley to grassroots league action such as Aire Wharfe cricket. I’ll confess…part of the reason for this photo-feature is to encourage you […]
What could a Yorkshire League Knockout Cup look like for 2020?
Each summer, writer and photographer Andrew Gallon explores the length and breadth of Yorkshire cricket and further afield. Having visited hundreds of clubs across the region over the years, he knows his Hanging Heaton from his Holmfirth and Townville from Tickhill. I asked Andrew to ponder the art of the possible around a Yorkshire League […]
South Kirkby Colliery Cricket Club: pie and pea suppers at The Pit Club
This time, South Kirby is the focus, thanks to an article by Linda Dewhirst whose husband Paul was skipper of South Kirkby Colliery Cricket Club in the 90s who still play in the Pontefract Cricket League. The feature is a look back at the culture of a cricket club, observations of a working mens […]
Dales Council Cricket League: Memi hits unbeaten 310 in 45 overs
This weekend produced an extraordinary Dales Council Cricket League match the likes of which you’ll never have seen before. It poses so many questions. One team in Bradford hit over 500 in 45 overs. Yes, you did read that right. It’s the first instance I’ve ever seen of a triple hundred scored in a limited-overs […]
Halifax Cricket League: Family affair at Buttershaw St Paul’s
If you think about it, generations of families have sustained cricket clubs the length and breadth of the country for years. Every club I’ve been involved with during 30 years of playing club cricket has had a number of families at its heart. Thanks to journalist Bill Marshall who put this little report together below […]
Travelling Exiles of Hull offer cricket with a charitable twist
Have you heard the one about the bunch of overweight, badly-shaped 40+ year olds trying to play cricket 10 years after retirement? No? Allow me to introduce you to The Travelling Exiles. We’re a squad of 30 or so former cricketers in the Hull area who have launched a T20 side for 2019 to raise […]