Richard Wells is Chair of Hollinsend Methodist Cricket Club and bought Make Money for Your Cricket Club to get advice for next season and beyond on income generation. This unique online course, designed specifically for grassroots clubs, provides fresh ideas and quick wins to make more money for your cricket club, relevant for any size […]
Ripon win Cricket Yorkshire Tea of the Year 2022
Ripon Cricket Club have been crowned winners of the Cricket Yorkshire Tea of the Year for 2022, sponsored by Yorkshire Tea. Founded in 1810, the cricket club is located in the heart of Ripon with two senior teams and a reputation for stellar cricket teas. Ripon win a whopping 2,500 tea bags from our sponsor […]
SIS hybrid cricket pitch helps Sowerby Bridge Cricket Club
Hybrid cricket pitches are still relatively new to club cricket but they’re catching on fast as word spreads. For this content collaboration with SIS Pitches, I went along to Sowerby Bridge Cricket Club to find out how they are using theirs. It was so good to return to this Halifax League ground, tucked away beyond […]
Want to buy your own cricket ground? Well, one’s for sale in Haworth
Do you like the idea of owning your own cricket ground? Well, now you can, if you’re quick. The former home of Haworth West End Cricket Club, high above the village of Haworth in West Yorkshire is for sale – by informal tender. The deadline for sealed bids to Dacre, Son & Hartley Keighley is […]
Round-up: Women and girls league cricket across Yorkshire
Welcome to Cricket Yorkshire’s league round-up of women’s hard ball cricket from across the region. It’s a snapshot of the 2022 season so far with plenty of clubs, competitions and performances mentioned. This year has seen really exciting growth in the number of women’s teams playing the game across Yorkshire. For this round-up, we’ll focus […]
All Stars Cricket: Newton-le-Willows re-launch junior cricket
Newton-le-Willows Cricket Club are based a few miles from Bedale in North Yorkshire and they ran All Stars Cricket for the first time this year. All Stars Cricket is designed for 5-8-year-old boys and girls to enjoy a fun, safe and inclusive first experience of cricket. For a village club who’ve had no juniors in […]
Watching on FrogBox: Illingworth 2s vs Oxenhope 2s
We’d done a Saturday walk to Saltaire – no cricket at my old place of Shipley Providence – they’re down to one team and the square was cordoned off. A shame to see that empty on a summer’s day – an opportunity for the host club to earn by renting the ground and a chance […]
Andrew Watson: 45 years in Yorkshire Cricket
I first met Andrew Watson, the former Managing Director of the Yorkshire Cricket Board, at Headingley to talk about Cricket Yorkshire. He fizzed with ideas, had a myriad of names at his fingertips then sealed a lifetime friendship by buying me fish and chips at Stumps Restaurant. We catch up by phone a few months […]
Aire-Wharfe Cricket: Beckwithshaw vs Bolton Villas
Visiting Beckwithshaw Cricket Club has been on my radar for years. Those of us who hop around cricket club grounds tend to rub shoulders and recommendations get passed on. On a scorching Saturday, it was time to put that right with their Second Eleven at home to Bolton Villas in Inter-Division 5-6 of the Aire-Wharfe […]
Halifax Cricket League: Luddenden Foot vs Old Town
A trip to Luddenden Foot for the Halifax Cricket’s League Parish Cup was an eventful one. The drive takes you up into the clouds of the Upper Calder Valley, along narrow stretches until you plop out on Sowerby Lane. We parked up just as a tractor wanted to squeeze past the row of parked cars […]