My interview with Richmondshire Cricket Club who wrapped up the NYSD with plenty of time to spare got me thinking. What’s the situation in the top divisions elsewhere? I keep an eye out across Yorkshire’s cricket leagues but now we’re getting to the last few weeks, there are trophies there for the taking. So here […]
Richmondshire win NYSD Premier Division (three weeks early)
Richmondshire Cricket Club are celebrating after the first team won the North Yorkshire & South Durham Cricket League’s Premier Division – with three weeks to play. At the time of writing, they sit at the summit on 383 points with Hartlepool second on 297 points. As it’s a maximum of 25 points for a win […]
West Yorkshire Women & Girls League XI win Yorkshire Cup
A new fixture for 2024 was an inter-league match between a West Yorkshire Women & Girls League XI and South Yorkshire Women & Girls League XI at Treeton Cricket Club on Sunday 25 August. It’s a further sign of the development of the women and girls’ game in Yorkshire as leagues in both West & […]
Nostell St Oswald: The curious case of sun stopped play
This is the extraordinary case of the club cricket match that was abandoned because of the sun. That it happened in Yorkshire after what has been, by all accounts, a fairly lamentably cold and wet summer, is doubly surprising. Nostell St Oswald 1st XI were at home to West Bretton 1st XI in the Premier […]
Winners revealed in the Cricket Yorkshire Tea of the Year 2024
The Cricket Yorkshire Tea of the Year for 2024, sponsored by Yorkshire Tea, has been a blast to run again. We have shaken things up with new categories to reflect the cost of cricket teas as well as the diversity in diets, culture and food here in Yorkshire. The standard has been phenomenal again. The […]
Bradford Eagles soar into third place against Azeems at Sutton
The prospect of watching a Sunday cricket league match at a beautiful ground with the tea provided by a popular Kashmiri restaurant set things up nicely. Azeems are both an Indian eaterie in Keighley, as well as one of the top teams in the Premiership of the Quaid-e-Azam Sunday Cricket League. We arrived before the […]
Laura Scheiwe hits 1,000-run landmark for Doncaster Town
Laura Scheiwe, who swapped an Australian winter for a spell at Doncaster Town, has crossed the 1,000-run threshold for the season. Across all competitions, her tally of 1,044 runs and counting at an average of 52 with three hundreds and six fifties marks her out as a top player in Yorkshire. The 18 year-old from […]
Kindness, outrage and talking to each other in cricket
If you’ve been affected by any of the topics in this article, you can get support from the organisations listed here. It’s been a deeply troubling few weeks across the country with the UK riots pulling back the curtain on ugly societal divisions. That was followed by the news that ex-England and Surrey batter Graham […]
Gordon Riggs Priestley Cup Final: Will history repeat itself?
Statistically, lightning can strike twice. Woodlands will be hoping that’s not the case when they face Bradford & Bingley in a repeat of the Bradford Premier League’s showpiece cup competition, the Gordon Rigg Priestley Cup. In 2023, Bradford & Bingley’s overseas player Corey Miller won man-of-the-match for his knock of 55 in a run chase […]
K3 Dental Cup: North vs South in Yorkshire’s Premier Leagues
Yorkshire club cricket is blessed with every cup competition you could possibly imagine. Inter-league, one-off contests, historic silverware and innovations only a year or two old. Unless your club is fortunate to contest national ECB contests then often you’ll only be playing against those in your league. North versus South Which brings us to the […]