As something a bit different for Cricket Yorkshire readers, now the regular club cricket season has drawn to a close, I thought I’d put together a few thoughts on The Hundred; the new 8-team, city-based professional tournament coming to England & Wales in 2020. Unless you’ve been on another solar system, you will have a […]
Cricket Yorkshire 50 is back: Fifty stars from the grassroots game
The Cricket Yorkshire 50 is my annual shortlist of superstars selected from the recreational game in the county. The CY50 is in its fourth year and remains one of the most-read articles of any year for the website. This is for you – the players, coaches, administrators and officials out there who help to make […]
York & District Senior Cricket League: Cows and calm at Pannal
Pannal Cricket Club, of the York Senior Cricket League, has been on my wishlist for some time. I’ve scooted past on the train from Leeds to Knaresborough many times and one August afternoon, following a trip to Knaresborough Forest CC earlier in the day, I thought I’d give it a go. It is always a […]
Hallam Cricket Club embrace growth and opportunities for all
Hallam Cricket Club play a lot of cricket. They are a bustling, South Yorkshire hotspot and I caught up with their Chairman Matthew Mawson to understand how their club ticks. They have five senior Saturday sides, a Sunday team, a Wednesday evening eleven in the Sheffield Midweek Alliance, a share in the South Sheffield/North Derbyshire […]
Woodlands win the Bradford Premier League at Undercliffe
A trip to Undercliffe Cricket Club to watch Woodlands try to clinch the Bradford Premier League title was to travel high above the city. Up, up past Bradford Cathedral, Carlton Bolling College to Intake Road, a cricketing heartland complete with white walls and a swirling wind. The game was reduced to 80 overs due to […]
Yorkshire Diamonds fail to cut it at Emerald Headingley
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 […]