Articles from the Cricket Yorkshire team. Guest contributors are credited in each article.
Andrew Gallon savours midweek cricket from the Pilmoor Evening Cricket League at Crayke with hail, Super Over drama and a 9pm finish. Let’s face it, the cricket season is too short. If, as a spectator, you’re not keen on shivering through the April and September bits, there are
Bill Marshall chats to Byron Boshoff of Wakefield Thornes about playing Premier League cricket in South Yorkshire. Any overseas batsman with serious pretensions sets themselves a four-figure target for the season when playing in English league cricket. 28-year-old South African Byron Boshoff is no exception. The former
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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-
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
Jeremy Lonsdale explores which cricket clubs can make the claim? Although not the most important concern at this difficult time, we experienced our first spring without any organised cricket for over 200 years. This thought made me wonder which local cricket clubs in Yorkshire can claim to have existed that
Andrew Gallon reflects on his journeys across Yorkshire club cricket as an avid 'groundhopper.' From the best views, finest cricket teas and strangest geography, dozens of clubs feature in his round-up: The arcane practice of groundhopping – watching matches at as many different grounds as possible – is fairly
Rupert Jones reflects on his time batting in the Central Yorkshire Cricket League; of cricket clubs now sadly no more and the might of Altofts Cricket Club. These are the 1981 league tables for the Central Yorkshire Cricket League, often referred to as the Heavy Woollen Cricket League. It was
Phil Sharples, Chairman of the Bramleys Halifax Junior Cricket League, discusses the ever-shifting sands that have come with trying to run a cricket league during coronavirus. Up for discussion was the current situation, planning ahead in a greatly shortened summer and the impact for junior cricket that the pandemic
Bradford Cricket League writer Reg Nelson explores the impact of missing a full cricket season on player performances and clubs' prospects across the leagues. As it’s getting increasingly likely that the local leagues in Yorkshire won’t start because of the dreaded coronavirus, there will be much conjecture
