The BBC Three film Bats, Balls and Bradford Girls is an absolute must-see documentary available on iPlayer. There are moments of wit, courage, selflessness and from the accents to the urban landscape, it is unmistakably Yorkshire. At its heart are the stories from an Asian girls’ cricket team who formed at Carlton Bolling College in […]
11 must-see Yorkshire cricket matches in 2019
Think of this as your Cricket Yorkshire diary for the year ahead with a smattering of recommendations across Yorkshire cricket. From World Cups to little-known Dales encounters, sit back and enjoy this preview. 6 January – Cricket in the Yorkshire Dales Meet at the Buck Inn, Malham at 12 noon for what is usually the […]
York Cricket Club wins first-class fixture for 2019
York Cricket Club are celebrating after securing a first-class fixture in Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s 2019 season. Yorkshire take on Warwickshire at Clifton Park on Monday 17 June and it is reward for their efforts hosting Yorkshire Seconds and Yorkshire Diamonds in recent years. Yorkshire’s first-team also come and practice at York and there’s been […]
Can clubs prosper by offering live cricket streaming?
The live cricket streaming of the County Championship action between Yorkshire & Surrey in June showed a glimpse of an exciting future for cricket clubs everywhere. Over the past few years, Bristol-based sports video highlights provider My Action Replay has been enabling counties, schools and cricket clubs to broadcast live cricket online and share key […]
Rain stopped play: Getting the best from cricket covers
If I had a pound for everyone who assumed that winter means a quiet few months for all of us involved in the grassroots game, I could buy a lifetime supply of cricket teas. The truth is, as I tussle with a cricket book chapter, those in club cricket are planning for the 2019 season […]
What has changed since I wrote All Wickets Great and Small?
In the summer of 2015, my first cricket book All Wickets Great and Small took me all over Yorkshire to explore the people and places of club cricket. There was a brand-new cricket club, fresh life being breathed into a former county ground, men in whites battling in the middle of a racecourse and vicars […]
Dandelion and Burdock and Don: When Yorkshire played at Settle Cricket Club
Author David Mitchell conjures up an adapted chapter from his new cricket book, From Snicket to Wicket. Here, David reminisces of his childhood at Settle Cricket Club and the spectacle of the annual match against Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Cricket has been in my blood since Grandad took me to watch Yorkshire play Australia at […]
Have your say in the Cricket Yorkshire Reader Survey 2018 [CLOSED]
[SURVEY CLOSED] Your views always matter here at CYHQ and this is the time of year when I ask for readers to share their opinions on: It’s been a really encouraging year with more people reading the Cricket Yorkshire website than ever before and the goal of this survey is tweak and hone it so […]
Yorkshire Premier Leagues Final: Wakefield Thornes beat Great Ayton
It was a bitingly cold day but thankfully yesterday’s rain that brought a premature end to Yorkshire’s County Championship match had been and gone so we got underway on time at 10.30am. This was the final of Yorkshire’s four Premier League Champions and it pitted Great Ayton from the North Yorkshire South Durham Cricket League […]
Cricket Yorkshire 50: Fifty winners from the recreational game in Yorkshire
The Cricket Yorkshire 50 is my annual shortlist of superstars picked from the recreational game in the county. The CY50 is in its third year and always one of the most popular and fiercely debated articles of the year for the website. Ok, so there are no glittering trophies, red carpet catwalks or paparazzi but […]