For those of you interested in cricket club insurance, niche I know but important nonetheless, positive change is afoot. Aston Lark, who Cricket Yorkshire has renewed its partnership with for 2023, has been bought by the Howden Insurance Group in October 2021. As part of the Integration, the Aston Lark Sport & Leisure team have joined their […]
Andy’s story: Playing visually impaired cricket for Yorkshire
Visually impaired cricketer Andy Fisher remembers the moment his eyesight changed. ‘I woke up with my eyesight all massively blurry. I went for tests and they thought it could be a brain tumour or a stroke.’ Andy was 35 at the time he was diagnosed with the extremely rare genetic condition called Leber Hereditary Optic […]
Cricket Club Sponsorship: How to win new deals?
Cricket club sponsorship can be a win-win solution for both business and clubs or organisations but it invariably takes perseverance, an understanding of how sponsorship works and a willingness to be flexible. Here’s our ultimate guide to cricket club sponsorship below… Hopefully, it fires up the grey cells, inspires and motivates your cricket club in […]
SNAP Sponsorship: Helping cricket clubs find sponsors
Cricket club sponsorship has never been so important for recreational cricket with the cost-of-living crisis forcing many to make difficult choices. Cricket Yorkshire has partnered with SNAP Sponsorship to showcase its online platform designed to connect cricket clubs and leagues with businesses. In this article, we’ll explain how clubs can take advantage, the benefits, costs […]
Bradford Park Avenue: Our hybrid cricket pitches
It was a relentlessly hot day at Bradford Park Avenue cricket ground for Interlink versus Cookridge in the Dales Council Cricket League. For this content collaboration with SIS Pitches, I returned to the city of Bradford to learn how hybrid pitches are helping this famous cricket site. *** Once a neglected former county ground, Park […]
Charlotte Boulton: Bradford League wickets & women’s captaincy
Crossflatts Cricket Club’s Charlotte Boulton has quite the CV; which she dives into between sips of her cappuccino. One of the reasons for the interview is led by the fact that Charlotte finished the 2022 Bradford Premier League season as the second-highest wicket-taker, across all divisions. (Stats note: That’s just league cricket with Zafar Mahmood […]
Yorkshire clubs at the forefront of hybrid cricket pitches
Hybrid cricket pitches are an exciting new opportunity for club cricket. In this partnership with SIS Pitches, we’ll look at what they are, the benefits and which clubs in Yorkshire are already using them. What is a hybrid cricket pitch? Hybrid grass is a blend of natural grass with artificial fibres. SIS achieve this by […]
Pudsey St Lawrence win West Yorkshire Women & Girls League
The Pudsey St Lawrence Ladies team, captained by Megan Fleming, have won the West Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League. The hardball league was in its first year with the other teams involved: Crossflatts, Menston, Bradford Park Avenue Ladies, Lightcliffe and St Chad’s Broomfield. 15-year-old Sarah Wood has been a standout performer with the most […]
Heading indoors: South Yorkshire Women’s and Girls Cricket
If you want an idea of the popularity of women’s and girls’ cricket in South Yorkshire, have a read of this. No sooner has the regular outdoor season come to a close in September than a South Yorkshire Women & Girls Indoor Cricket League has been confirmed. It will run from October until Spring. There […]
Barriers to Female Participation in Cricket: Progress and What next?
The final project from University of Sheffield student, Jamie Moughton, has caught the attention after it looked at barriers to female participation in cricket. Jamie’s video project for his MA in Broadcast Journalism was inspired by a tweet from The Times journalist Elizabeth Ammon. Her point about changing kit options away from traditional whites to […]