No-one involved in club cricket will be particularly surprised that the evolution of volunteers in key roles is an ongoing concern. Struggles to recruit enough umpires and shortages of scorers is as old as the hills. Is it as bad as it ever was? I’ll leave that to you to ponder but the relatively small pocket of volunteers propping up… Read more →
Remarkable Village Cricket Grounds by Brian Levison is a treasure map that has sat on my office desk for months. I have flicked through and marvelled but now a new year demands an expedition or two. The eye-catching hardback with evocative, glossy photographs of cricket grounds, by David Major and Jill Mead and complemented by Brian’s background biographies, makes you… Read more →
The BBC Three film Bats, Balls and Bradford Girls is an absolute must-see documentary available on iPlayer. There are moments of wit, courage, selflessness and from the accents to the urban landscape, it is unmistakably Yorkshire. At its heart are the stories from an Asian girls’ cricket team who formed at Carlton Bolling College in Bradford and grabbed headlines by… Read more →
Think of this as your Cricket Yorkshire diary for the year ahead with a smattering of recommendations across Yorkshire cricket. From World Cups to little-known Dales encounters, sit back and enjoy this preview. 6 January – Cricket in the Yorkshire Dales Meet at the Buck Inn, Malham at 12 noon for what is usually the earliest outdoor fixture anywhere in… Read more →
A strange realisation gripped me the other day. I was writing Christmas cards while troughing a door wedge of chocolate yule log and it became apparent that I have forgotten how to write. When was the last time you picked up a pen and actually wrote anything as opposed to fired up the keyboard and danced your fingers over a… Read more →
Zwingo Sports is set to make headlines in 2019 after the Zwingo cricket training tool that we featured before on Cricket Yorkshire, proved so popular. As we’ll explore here, the company is scaling up its plans to revolutionise how we play cricket and help us to train smarter. For its Founder Brett Hillary, the next year is full of… Read more →
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