John Fuller

My Bradford Cricket League cup experience for 2020 began close to home with a trip to Wagon Lane. The Bradford Premier League teams were starting the new league cup and it saw Bradford & Bingley welcome Pudsey St Lawrence. Billy Whitford and Yasir Abbas are two signings for the home side who have a new […]

For fans of the Bradford Cricket League, the Bradford Premier League 2020 season officially begins on Saturday 25 July. After the uncertain and incredibly tough few months for the country and club cricket, it is a relief to focus on players again. Of course, due to Covid-19, we are starting the Yorkshire cricket season not […]

Club cricket is back and you could hear the collective sigh of relief all over Yorkshire. Mrs Cricket Yorkshire and I went to Bingley Congs to catch some overs. The excitement at catching the first glimpse of cricketers in whites at a distance through a copse of trees was an emotional tug. The Congs Seconds […]

Yorkshire club cricket is officially back. As of Saturday, there have been friendlies played across the region as clubs, officials and cricketers all get back into the swing of things. I asked on Cricket Yorkshire’s Twitter feed for photos and feedback on what it was like to play under the ECB guidelines? ? Enjoy your […]

Recreational cricket in England can go ahead from Saturday 11 July, with the England & Wales Cricket Board releasing its guidelines on how to achieve that safely. After much speculation on what form the adapted gameplay would take, the progression from Step 3 to Step 4 of the ECB’s roadmap permits 11-a-side cricket with no […]

Massive, fantastic news as recreational cricket is given the green light by the Government to return next weekend. Baffling day. U-turns. Contradictions. Boris Johnson’s LBC interview labelling cricket teas and changing room problematic. None of that matters now. The result we all wanted is happening. Finally. We are delighted that the UK Government have given […]

Craven Cricket League 2019 Champions Crossflatts are moving to the Bradford Premier League for 2021. It is a decision that piqued my curiosity as I’ve tracked the progress of Crossflatts (including their All Stars success) and even bowled a few overs at their place. The Bradford Cricket League’s expansion (after merging with the Central Yorkshire […]

The cricket ball is a ‘natural vector of disease’ – discuss. The Prime Minister’s recent response to a question about the return of recreational cricket has got everyone bemused, appalled or confused. By labelling a cricket ball in that way, he would seem to have quashed my prediction of a July return for club cricket. […]

Club cricket in England could return in July after recent promising developments. An ECB statement, dated 19 June, for counties and premier leagues read: ‘The Secretary of State’s message on Tuesday evening outlined plans for earmarking an early July date as being the earliest possible return for recreational cricket.’ Naturally, it comes with the enormous […]

Ordinarily, Scarborough Cricket Club should have been currently hosting the final day of the Roses match in the County Championship. Due to COVID-19, these are anything but ordinary times. Officially, the Scarborough Cricket Festival match in August is still on. It has yet to be cancelled but common sense dictates that’s only a matter of […]