For an assignment on behalf of The Cricket Paper, I found myself puffing up Red Lane to Bradford League outfit, Farsley Cricket Club. On a day with only the occasional whisper of wind and a crackling heat, getting myself thoroughly lost amid the myriad of streets from New Pudsey station
The ECB's ACO Education Officer Glyn Pearson was my guest for the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast recently and on form as we debated the challenges facing umpire recruitment in the recreational game. Glyn umpires in the Bradford League and is very well known in umpiring circles for his training
In the latest episode of the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast, former Leeds United and England goalkeeper Nigel Martyn is on top form talking about his switch from professional football to league cricket in North Leeds. Cricket came first for Cornishman Martyn who got stuck into league cricket with St Austell and
In my last two visits to the net facilities at Bradford Park Avenue cricket ground, I've seen Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Moeen Ali, David Willey, Sarfraz Ahmed and Adil Rashid. While I don't expect to witness that lot lashing cover drives and bowling fizzing legbreaks in
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The Drakes Huddersfield Cricket League is a marvel in cricket history and continuity. Its first season was way back in 1892 and comprised the ten clubs of Armitage Bridge, Golcar, Holmfirth, Lascelles Hall, Linthwaite, Slaithwaite, Cliffe End, Huddersfield United, Lockwood, Meltham Mills. The first six of those clubs are still
The Barnsley Cricket League is enjoying its 125th anniversary in 2018 and so what better time to promote South Yorkshire Sunday league cricket as the Quasquicentennial party kicks off. No, I'm not that clever and yes, I did just google the Latin description for 125 year-landmark! We
Yorkshire County Cricket Club seam bowler Jack Brooks must have broken a few mirrors last season such was his bad luck with injury. Sporting what he laughingly refers to as an Oxfordshire tan after catching the sun in the pre-season tour to Potchefstroom, the Headband Warrior is on fine
I'm delighted to have been invited to speak at the Northern Cricket Society on Tuesday 3rd April and hope some Cricket Yorkshire readers will be able to make it along to say hello and talk cricket! I'll be discussing my book, All Wickets Great & Small,
It would be an understatement to note that Steve Ward (right) knows a thing or two about cricket scoring. As Regional Scorers Officer (North) for the ECB ACO (Association of Cricket Officials), his role has been to teach and update cricket scorers across the region as technology and the laws
Club cricket has its fair share of those like Jonathan Corcoran who live for their cricket and wear many hats. Secretary at Knaresborough Cricket Club, Yorkshire U15 Development Team Manager, cricket umpire in Yorkshire's ECB Premier Leagues plus the York Senior League and an ECB tutor teaching and
The topic of cricket in state schools - or rather its conspicuous absence - is something that will fire up anyone who cares about the present health and future of cricket. "There is no cricket in state schools" is a comment I hear all the time and compared to the
Allerton Cricket Club has won a dramatic reprieve in the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League and it’s all thanks to the generosity of another club, Salem Athletic. This is extraordinary because a cricket club’s future was at stake and the wheels were in motion for it to fold
It is 1986. The Pudsey St Lawrence players stroll out onto the field with proper cable-knit jumpers, impressive moustaches as well as bouffant hairdos that look like they could stand up to the rigours of Yorkshire’s weather. As the Yorkshire Television commentary states as a matter of fact:
Former England Women’s Coach Paul Shaw is talking about cricket captaincy and leadership on a tinny line from his car after a few hectic days holding workshops for the ECB and the Premier League. Paul will be touring Yorkshire during March to deliver a series of regional seminars that
We do like to revel in our weather here in the UK, don't we? Snowmageddon has come to Yorkshire cricket. News of the 'Beast from the East' weather front sweeping in, as it had been cheerily coined, made it sound like an ominous character from Game
