Harold ‘Dickie’ Bird, announced this morning, in a world-exclusive for CricketYorkshire.com that he has decided to campaign for the job of Prime Minister. The current President of Yorkshire County Cricket Club showed his people power when he was recently re-elected for a second term of office at Headingley and as the current MP for cricket […]
Headingley’s floodlit future is here
Floodlights are here at Headingley as Yorkshire County Cricket Club puts more of the infrastructure in place that it believes will safeguard its future as an international venue for years to come. The 56-metre floodlights situated in the four corners of the venue will be ready for the new season and hats off to the […]
Unleash the paint brushes: NatWest CricketForce
Here’s a thought for you all. We might never have had NatWest CricketForce and all the great work clubs do for their facilities each Spring, if it wasn’t for Charlie Dimmock. The NatWest CricketForce concept – where clubs galvanise volunteers one pre-season weekend annually to make running repairs – evolved originally from the popularity of […]
Desert diary from the UAE: Yorkshire CCC on tour
As Yorkshire wrapped up victory against the MCC in the final game of their UAE tour, Cricket Yorkshire had our very own tour correspondent and Yorkshire CCC fan, Phil Rose, report back on what it’s like to visit the country as a cricket fan. The brief was to give you all a flavour of the […]
Here’s to the next generation of Junior Crickets
My life would now be dramatically different, had I not began life as a cricket coach in a royal London Park, supervising 5-9 year olds as a university summer job. I might never have met my wife (the ultimate inspiration for Cricket Yorkshire), whose cousin I first befriended whilst safeguarding pint-sized minions as they rocketed […]
Is women’s cricket now healthier than the men’s game?
At a time when the men’s game is searching for answers in the aftermath of a forgettable World Cup, England Women can look back with some satisfaction on a successful winter. The T20 series against New Zealand was secured 2-1 and despite starting slowly in the one-day series, that too was ultimately wrapped up with […]
Which World Cup cricketer are you?
Who are you all? What does a usual day pan out like? What do you eat or read? Ok, I could go on but already you’re probably wondering where this is going… **Before I do so, you have two options. You can read about the world of market research and understanding who cricket fans are […]
Will England qualify and do we want them to?
Right. That’s it. I have had enough. Consider this England’s World Cup rocket from a position of extreme grumpiness. I have sat up into the early hours, with only a strong mug of tea and a crème egg for companionship, to watch England get absolutely decimated three times now. There comes a tipping point in […]
2019 Cricket World Cup moves to December
Following on from football’s re-shuffling of a global tournament, we have something of a world exclusive… **The 2019 creeckit World Cup in England will now be held in December.** It will have its own hashtag and everything: #wintercricketworldcup. Woolly hats off to the organisers for realising that this bold move will radically shake up world […]
What the IPL auction would look like in club cricket
When the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction swings around, it’s hard not to find it obscene. Sure, it generates talking points – who was a relative bargain, who went unsold and who was signed for enough to feed a village of Indian families for the next five decades. But the real winners of the IPL […]