The first day of the 2019 county cricket season in Yorkshire was for the die-hard fan, embedded between layers of jumpers, coats and woolly hats. Weetwood was its arctic best. Things started eventfully as the 6 bus to Holt Park decided not to arrive and seemingly vanished into the ether, swallowed by Leeds’ version of […]
Leeds Bradford MCCU: First-class…for now
As the sun streams through the balcony window of the pavilion at Weetwood, Andrew Lawson, Head Coach of Leeds/Bradford MCCU, is summoning the words to assess the 336-run defeat down at Derby that concluded the day before. It has been a chastening few days for the student sides against county opposition, highlighted by Somerset’s enormous […]
How do cricket clubs recruit new players?
It is a running joke at my local cricket club that Graeme, our 3rd XI captain, is like the Craven Cricket League’s version of Harry Rednapp when it comes his ability to rack up the new signings. At a time when some clubs are struggling to put out sides or fulfil fixtures due to a […]