A little like jamming the bat down on a yorker too late or lobbing up a juicy slower ball too early, cricket journalism can be all about the timing. A product review of the new Masuri Vision Series cricket helmet was about to be published on this website when the news came through about Australian […]
How to watch the cricket World Cup 2015
Ok, two assumptions. You’re a cricket fan based in the UK and you want to watch the cricket World Cup 2015. Apologies to cricket fans around the world looking for country-specific broadcasting details. Due to the fractured nature of TV and online media rights, the best I can do for you is flag up directions […]
Can England play and look the part at a cricket World Cup?
View image | gettyimages.com We have a brash Australian media mogul to thank for coloured clothing in cricket and it wasn’t Rupert Murdoch. The notion of breakaway cricket competitions barely raises an eyebrow now but the World Series Cricket (WSC) between 1977 and 1979 was less evolution, more revolution. Kerry Packer designed a bold, alternative […]
How a cricket partnership can galvanise efforts against cancer
On World Cancer Day (Wednesday 4 February), my focus was on the funeral of a family member who lost his battle with cancer. It’s a terrible group of diseases that has brutally rampaged through my family of late and reminded me both to be thankful for every day and also what is truly important in […]
Martyn Moxon: Prepping Yorkshire’s next opener
It’s the tail-end of January and snow blankets the Headingley outfield at Yorkshire County Cricket Club. You can imagine groundsman Andy Fogerty greets such seasonal novelties with stoicism; an eye already on a packed summer of cricket ahead. Speaking of planning, wherever you look, there are changes afoot across the board with the County Champions. […]
Yorkshire – A Champion Year
Here’s something of an odd admission to kick off a cricket book review. I don’t tend to read cricket books; at least not for a bit of light entertainment away from work. The Cricket Yorkshire office has had its January de-clutter so is looking even more Spartan than normal. Even so, the absence of books […]
Cricket questions you thought too daft to ask
Whatever our knowledge and interest in cricket, we can’t know everything. Or at least understand everything. Some things are casually explained away in cricket because, well, it’s just the way it is.
The 4,458-mile trip to start the county season
The fact that Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s opening fixture of the 2015 county season takes place on another continent is, well, a bit of an oddity.
Why don’t more people play indoor cricket?
It’s at this time of year when winter has got her fingers wrapped around us that cricket has never felt further away. Foggy breath and a pickaxe to de-ice the car in the morning while your cricket bag is gathering dust wherever you put it since that last September fixture. Well, here’s the thing. Why […]
Scarborough Heartache to County Champions
Yorkshire’s historic championship in 2014 may have been sealed with an emphatic victory over Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in September, but the seeds for that triumph were sown in the dark despair of 12 months earlier in a dejected dressing room at the Oval.