*** This competition is now closed *** **** Cricket Yorkshire has linked up with The Cricketer to offer a fantastic competition prize. Who wants a framed county cricket print of Scarborough to adorn their office or home? This idyllic scene of North Marine Road at Scarborough Cricket Club has been created exclusively for The Cricketer. […]
Buying cricket teamwear without the drama
It’s an exciting time of year with cricket clubs back at indoor nets and plans well advanced for the season ahead. That preparation includes looking the part with new cricket teamwear your cricket club can be proud to wear. In some ways, cricket kit for clubs has advanced over decades (materials and technology) but problems […]
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 […]
Cricket Yorkshire partners Optimax Eye Surgery Specialists
Cricket Yorkshire is delighted to introduce Optimax Eye Surgery Specialists as a commercial partner on this website for 2020. Optimax is the UK’s longest established eye surgery specialists and has 22 locations across the UK, including one in Leeds. The clinics are all equipped with advanced laser technology, offering exceptional levels of safety and precision. Their […]
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 […]
Cricket Yorkshire renews Leeds Bradford MCCU sponsorship
Over the past decade, Cricket Yorkshire has partnered with a range of commercial and not-for-profit organisations to promote what they do. One partnership that has gone very well is a shirt sponsorship with Leeds Bradford MCCU that has been running a number of years now. It’s a scheme I fully support and have seen flourish […]
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 […]
Cricket Yorkshire Podcast with Opening Up Cricket
Over the course of about a decade with Cricket Yorkshire, I’ve been fortunate to form partnerships with charities, companies and governing bodies. Working with Opening Up Cricket has been going a couple of years now and it takes the form of writing about them and by shouting from the rooftops of the internet. This is […]
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 […]