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John Fuller

Founder of cricketyorkshire.com, writer, husband and cat dad. Fond of Yorkshire Tea and red kites.

Three becomes one: Yorkshire Premier League North merger

Three becomes one: Yorkshire Premier League North merger

Years ago, I made one of my crystal ball-gazing predictions that the landscape in Yorkshire club cricket would see much bigger leagues but less of them. A decade on and that seems to have chimed true with the likes of the Yorkshire Cricket Southern Premier League and Yorkshire Premier

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Katie Stewart: Women and girls' cricket is soaring

Katie Stewart: Women and girls' cricket is soaring

My latest guest on the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast is Katie Stewart, YCB's Women and Girls Development Manager for West Yorkshire. Have a listen below as she guides us through some of the stand-out moments from a memorable season of women and girls' cricket. 🎤 PODCAST INTERVIEW In

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Rules vs common sense: Leafblowers and seeing the light

Rules vs common sense: Leafblowers and seeing the light

If there’s one thing that club cricket excels at, it’s rules, regulations and calculations, occasionally to its detriment. This is about light, leaf blowers and common sense. Seeing the light It’s not just the recreational game that can sometimes stray into a soap opera. Anyone who watched

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Nostell St Oswald: The curious case of sun stopped play

Nostell St Oswald: The curious case of sun stopped play

This is the extraordinary case of the club cricket match that was abandoned because of the sun. That it happened in Yorkshire after what has been, by all accounts, a fairly lamentably cold and wet summer, is doubly surprising. Nostell St Oswald 1st XI were at home to West Bretton

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Kindness, outrage and talking to each other in cricket

If you've been affected by any of the topics in this article, you can get support from the organisations listed here. It’s been a deeply troubling few weeks across the country with the UK riots pulling back the curtain on ugly societal divisions. That was followed by

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Gordon Riggs Priestley Cup Final: Will history repeat itself?

Gordon Riggs Priestley Cup Final: Will history repeat itself?

Statistically, lightning can strike twice. Woodlands will be hoping that’s not the case when they face Bradford & Bingley in a repeat of the Bradford Premier League’s showpiece cup competition, the Gordon Rigg Priestley Cup. In 2023, Bradford & Bingley’s overseas player Corey Miller won man-of-

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K3 Dental Cup: North vs South in Yorkshire's Premier Leagues

K3 Dental Cup: North vs South in Yorkshire's Premier Leagues

Yorkshire club cricket is blessed with every cup competition you could possibly imagine. Inter-league, one-off contests, historic silverware and innovations only a year or two old. Unless your club is fortunate to contest national ECB contests then often you’ll only be playing against those in your league.

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