This Thursday 5 March at 7.45pm, I will be speaking at the Wombwell Cricket Lovers Society at Ardsley Oaks Club (outside Barnsley) – and you’re all invited! The focus of the Q&A with Wombwell’s Chairman James Greenfield will be my book on Scarborough Cricket Club, Last of the Summer Wickets. I’m sure we’ll also dip […]
National Village Cup: Houghton Main rebuild
Houghton Main, who play in the South Yorkshire Cricket League, are back at indoor nets and already hoping for another sensational National Village Cup run in 2020. The South Yorkshire outfit came through eight rounds in 2019 beating the likes of reigning champions Folkton and Flixton as well as Worcestershire’s Astwood Bank, en route to […]
Walking cricket set to shake up the game in Yorkshire
Walking cricket. Not two words you’d necessarily put together. Yet, here I am at Bradford’s Karmand Community Centre to see why this new form of the game is proving so popular. Aimed at older adults, who are semi-retired or retired, but want to use cricket to stay active and enjoy the social side, walking cricket […]
Owzthat cricket game: Dice, paper and imagination
During long summer school holidays that stretched out as endlessly as a Boycott innings, there was one, indomitable saving grace when it rained. Two words. Owzthat cricket. How do you play cricket with dice?
Cricket Yorkshire teams up with Halifax Cricket League
Since 2011, Cricketyorkshire.com has been promoting all forms of Yorkshire cricket from interviews with Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow and Adil Rashid to hundreds of club visits and talking with those that so impressively power the grassroots game. That’s over a million words, thousands of photos and yes, a few cricket teas along the way. Going […]
10 Not Out: New Year’s Resolutions at Cricket Yorkshire
Bring on 2020. As a writer, Yorkshire cricket has endless possibilities for exploration. Looking back for a moment, what a year it’s been. The Cricket Yorkshire website has had more readers than ever before and the numbers following on social media continue to grow. That’s important for a number of reasons. Firstly, it shows that […]
Halifax Cricket League celebrates a year to remember
The Spencer Wilson Halifax Cricket League annual dinner and awards presentation evening ended up being quite the knees-up. A chance to meet some of the clubs I’ve visited over the last decade and celebrate individual and team achievements, this was billed as home of hill top and valley bottom assembling en masse. On an evening […]
Floods and flower power at Bridgeholme Cricket Club
As I write this, the November rain is peppering the windows of the Cricket Yorkshire office. A journey into town for supplies had meant I returned home resembling a deep-sea diver who’d just returned to the surface. It’s a funny time of year. There’s a smattering of indoor cricket leagues starting up and pockets of […]
Scarborough Cricket Festival: “When the fixtures are out, book me in!”
In this extract from my 2019 book Last of the Summer Wickets, I describe the occasion that greets the release of the domestic fixtures for county cricket. Scanning dates for the Scarborough Cricket Festival is high up the list of priorities for many. Here, I have a bit of a flap in booking a place […]
Core Cities Leeds: Beeston Mini World Cup & tape ball cricket
Sohail Raz is Community Development Officer (Leeds) at The Yorkshire Cricket Foundation (YCF) and one of his roles is to head up something called Core Cities Leeds. Core Cities is part of the ECB’s action plan to engage South Asian communities and it has identified 10 areas, including Bradford, Leeds and Kirklees in Yorkshire, where […]