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Cricketing Tales and Tea: Malton in 2023
I’m heading to Malton on Sunday 18 June for an event, organised by Kemps General Store in town. It’s taking place at The Cook’s Place and is a chat with me about my two cricket books, Cricket Yorkshire and grassroots cricket. Come along if you can, it would be lovely to meet some Cricket Yorkshire […]
Long Lee: Sixes, crocs and a Golden View
The drive from Cricket Yorkshire HQ to Long Lee Cricket Club took us around the edge of the St Ives Estate up a road that felt like we were abseiling. Eventually, you zigzag up and reach the summit with wilderness and farmland for company, along with rolling, verdant valleys. Keighley Road, back at Harden, becomes […]
Bradford Park Avenue Ladies vs St Chad’s Broomfield
Arriving fashionably late at Bradford Park Avenue cricket ground, St Chad’s Broomfield Women’s XI were batting. The Leeds-based side, on Otley Road, hadn’t won a game this season but were off to a flier here at 60-0. The visitors clearly meant business, with three coaches in attendance, and they’ll have been pleased with the way […]
Taj Butt & Great Horton Church: Inspiring junior cricketers
This is the story of Great Horton Church; a thriving, inner-city cricket club in Bradford whose community outreach stretches far beyond the game. I’m anticipating traffic congestion to get to Allerton Road in BD8 for the usual 6.15pm start. As it turns out, the drive over the top, past Bradford Royal Infirmary Hospital, a trip […]
What is the hardest cricket ground to find?
We have a lot to thank Google Maps and Street View for, even if it felt at the time as if permission was retrospective. By the way, we’ve mapped your road and house, hope you don’t mind. As someone who seeks out cricket in nooks and crevices across Yorkshire, finding my way to a ground […]
Ingleton Cricket Club: Paradise in the Yorkshire Dales
Ingleton Cricket Club is an outlier, as the only Yorkshire side in the Westmorland Cricket League that covers three counties. A cricket club AND a cricket league new to me? Time for a road trip. If you like caves and waterfalls, the village of Ingleton is a scenic hotspot; situated in the Craven district of […]
Alex Brown: Cricket coaching and starting a company in your teens
I caught up with a Level 2 cricket coach, Alex Brown, who combines playing for Wrenthorpe in the Bradford Premier League with improving young cricketers. Here’s our Q&A… Hey Alex, what’s your cricket background? I’ve played cricket since I was around five years old so over 13 years (I’m 19 in June 2023). This interest […]
Archer Cup: Six-team showdown at Northowram
The Archer Cup (named after Steve at the Yorkshire Cricket Board, not Joffra) delivered the hat-trick: skills, sunshine and spectators. After last year’s event had been rained off, this was a chance to bring together the six teams from the inaugural West Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League. The drive over set the scene with […]
League cricket transformation for Yorkshire’s women and girls
Here is an overview of women and girls’ league cricket across Yorkshire, in association with the Yorkshire Cricket Board. New pyramid Yorkshire loves its pyramids and after there was a re-structure in men’s league cricket in 2016, the women and girls’ game has followed suit. A single Premier League at the top and each region […]