Ok, so you want to get organised. January is here so the 2016 cricket season is literally around the corner. Or so you tell yourself… What you need is a calendar with key cricket fixtures to get you excited and to smoothly orchestrate your summer. Monday 11 April Yorkshire vs
Ok, so the Christmas turkey has long since bitten the dust and January is here, heralding a land of opportunity. Have you thought about your 2016? What do you want it to look like? Any projects, ambitions or changes to life or are you the sort of person that contentedly
While the UK shudders from the meteorological armegeddon that saw Carlisle Cricket Club pavilion almost entirely submerged…on the other side of the world, a sun-kissed, cricketing carnival is about to launch: the Big Bash League. The fifth edition of Australia’s domestic Twenty20 competition or #BBL05 to grope
In the course of the last year, this website has amassed a rich and varied photography archive, taken out and about across Yorkshire with DSLR and smartphone. Only a fraction of these images have ever seen the light of day, either being shared as @cricketyorks on Twitter and our Facebook
Ok everyone, December is here so talk of Christmas no longer feels premature. Even though the supermarkets have been flogging mince pies since the end of the county season. Are you the type to leave Christmas shopping until the last minute then get on Amazon and click round in a
Plans to scrap the coin toss in Division Two of the LV=County Championship next season has sent seismic, shuddering shock waves through the global game. The idea is to...wait for this decisive, bold and innovative step into the unknown...trial it for a year in 2016 to see
The most memorable charity endeavour I've done may well have been the time I threw myself out a plane as a tandem skydive into a field in Kent some years past. There is nothing quite like travelling towards the ground at 120mph to encourage you to ponder the
Not so long ago, we asked you all for help with a survey to shape what the Cricket Yorkshire website covers in 2016 and what your preferences are. The survey is still open if you can spare a minute and congratulations to Ian Whittaker for winning our prize on offer,
Welcome! Don't be fooled into thinking this is any ordinary quiz. This may well be the best cricket quiz you've ever done. Oh yes. Loosen your brain muscles, limber up for some trivia fiendishness and over six awesome questions, prepare to be dazzled and amazed. Intriguing
Martin Eede reveals how a small village in East Yorkshire embarked on their first-ever international tour to Bulgaria. Yapham play against Bulgaria at cricket? It seemed improbable a year ago when my son, who had transferred to the British Embassy, got in touch. As it happens, the ambassador, a
Hey everyone. If you're on this page, you've deliberately clicked on a post about a cricket survey. Thanks and good for you. Ok, so surveys are not the most exciting piece of content on the web but they're invaluable and once a year, Cricket
A few weeks back in September, the final round of Central Yorkshire Cricket League Premier Division matches proved a welcome afternoon of cricket watching. As some of you will know, the Central Yorkshire Cricket League has voted to become part of the new Bradford Premier League with Yorkshire prepped for
The way amateur cricket in Yorkshire is structured has changed to provide a clear path to the summit for any club in Yorkshire. Where possible, bones of contention such as travelling times have also been chewed over to try to provide a sane solution. Here's what we know.
The bone-rattler from Leeds has a smattering of county fans in this final chapter of the 2015 county season. A few of us weave our way up the back road and over the railway bridge en route to Headingley where Yorkshire lead Sussex by nearly 300 overnight. Breakfast is
Back in September 2015, John Fuller travelled to Dewsbury to watch an unusual cricket match. Minutes from the hustle and bustle of central Dewsbury, down a path that melds to the contour of the river Calder, lies a gem of a cricket ground. With the striking backdrop of the aquaduct,
The Cricket Photo of the Year category of the Cricket Yorkshire Awards asked entrants to pick up to three of their best cricket photos for submission. Have a look through as we celebrate the range of photography of Yorkshire cricket, both professional and amateur. JEREMY LONSDALE (WINNER) 10 May 2015,
