Let’s go! #shinebright pic.twitter.com/AmD4pS4dBJ — Yorkshire Diamonds? (@YorksDiamonds) August 11, 2019 A visit to Emerald Headingley to watch Yorkshire Diamonds face Loughborough Lightning in the Kia Super League delivered everything you could want – except a home victory. It began with a surreal walk up from the railway station to be gradually overtaken by an […]
How can cricket clubs better protect themselves?
Cricket clubs, in Yorkshire and further afield, face many a challenge on any given day. Volunteers might sit on a mower for hours, spend their spare time baking cakes for teas or wading through a grant application. While the number of helpers, the amount of time things take and the perpetual balancing act between work […]
Giles Foster Scholarship offers Great Preston Cricket Club continuity
The strong connection between Ringwood Cricket Club in Melbourne and Great Preston Cricket Club in West Yorkshire continues to grow, as the fifth year of the Giles Foster Scholarship (GFS) announced Tyson Freeman as the 2019 scholarship recipient earlier this year, writes Ian Newton. Ringwood Cricket Club all-rounder Tyson follows in the footsteps of Ringwood […]
Airedale Cricket Club deliver views and showstopper cakes
Sometimes the best cricket experiences are the ones that catch you by surprise. I went along to Airedale Cricket Club, outside Keighley, a month back ostensibly to just watch. It’s inevitable as a cricket writer that you look for stories everywhere. I can find it difficult to just take in a game without any obligation […]
Halifax Cricket League: Head for heights at Queensbury
It was with a sense of contentment the prospect of cricket frequently brings that I boarded the bus to Halifax from Bradford Interchange. Retracing a chapter from my first book All Wickets Great and Small, I was going back to Queensbury Cricket Club. The highest cricket club in the country, so they reckon. You can […]
Yorkshire South Premier League: Averages, Table and lead performers
How are cricket clubs doing so far this season in the 4 Probate & Wills Yorkshire South Premier League? Who’s leading the batting and bowling averages? What have been the surprises? Who’s challenging for the title and who’s nervously eyeing a relegation scrap? Thanks to the league Chairman Roger Pugh for this statistical feast and […]
New Farnley show potential of cricket streaming
To visit New Farnley Cricket Club, a tree-lined slab of peaceful greenery to the West of Leeds, you wouldn’t know you’re at the forefront of technology in club cricket. They are the first Bradford League club to be cricket streaming all of their home fixtures for the 2019 season, making them available live and recorded […]
Hanging Heaton beat Yorkshire Vikings at Wagon Lane
Looking out of the Cricket Yorkshire office window during Monday was to have that sinking suspicion that another cricketing extravaganza was to be ruined by the weather. Thankfully, the weather gods were smiling after all. The T20 fixture between the National Club T20 Champions Hanging Heaton and the Yorkshire Vikings at Bradford & Bingley’s Wagon […]
How much cricket is there in Yorkshire state schools?
If I had a pound for every time I hear that a lack of cricket in schools is the game’s perennial problem, I could probably fund Chance to Shine’s ambitions myself. Investigating cricket in state schools across Yorkshire is to uncover some hard truths, uncomfortable realities and yet also marvel at what’s being achieved in […]
Royal London Club Championship upsets in Yorkshire
The Royal London Club Championship, or ECB National Knockouts as they’re more commonly known, have thrown up some upsets in the early rounds. The 40-over competition concludes with the sizeable carrot of a final at Lord’s on Monday 16 September; albeit not the best time to play a game if your amateur squad is gainfully […]