Articles from the Cricket Yorkshire team. Guest contributors are credited in each article.
Tony Hutton looks at the history of Lascelles Hall Cricket Club (on the Eastern outskirts of Huddersfield) and an enduring association with playing Yorkshire County Cricket Club down the years. The cricket club at Lascelles Hall, originally a very small village just outside Huddersfield, was founded in 1825 which makes
Aden Biddle explores the routine of indoor cricket nets during winter and the many dimensions to encouraging all types of player, managing cost and getting the most out of practice. We’re into a new year and many of the county’s amateur cricketers are facing the same situation. The
Here, Kevin Owens shares his thoughts on a cricket club where the youth policy starts at 40. The Forty Club’s motto is 'inspiring cricketers to enjoy a lifelong love of cricket'. Quite a statement indeed, but given the club played its first game in 1937 and is
This is a remarkable Yorkshire cricket tale and one to celebrate. It’s incredibly rare that a cricket club comes back to life but, as Jack Stockdale reveals, there is always room for a surprise comeback. ** The story of Lockton Cricket Club is the story of so many local village
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'
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
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
Martin Wildsmith of Tong Park Esholt Cricket Club looks at the costs to cricket clubs to run the game and the challenges that come with that.
Author Jeremy Lonsdale examines how Yorkshire cricket clubs faced the challenges of starting again in April 1919, after the First World War. *** Exactly 100 years ago this month, the first cricket season after the First World War got under way as all over Yorkshire local clubs again took to the
