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 […]
Cricket volunteers in Yorkshire keep the game strong
The Yorkshire Cricket Board’s Outstanding Service to Cricket Awards (OSCAs) continues to champion the breadth of volunteers from across the county. This year’s ceremony, up in the Premier Suite at Yorkshire County Cricket Club during the County Championship game with Somerset, saw umpires, scorers, coaches, players and administrators given recognition for the work they do. […]
Crunch time for Yorkshire’s Premier League clubs
From this weekend, the scattered tiles of Premier League fixtures across Yorkshire that stretched back to April will begin to reveal a mosaic of champions, near misses and what ifs. Such a curious season of cricket has a twist or turn still but muddy whites gave way to grounds scorched bald by record temperatures. In […]
Can franchise cricket keep teens in the game for longer?
For this episode of the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast, I went to Sowerby Bridge Cricket Club who were hosting the ZWINGO® Halifax Junior Cricket League U19 T20 Final. Even if the Twenty20 concept is tried and tested professionally, this interpretation was new for Yorkshire club cricket. Four squads – Northern Knights, Western Wolves, Eastern Eagles and Southern Spartans […]
Has anyone scored more runs in Yorkshire than Jabir Patel?
You only have to cast your eye down the weekly honours boards for batting and bowling for the ECB’s Play Cricket website platform to note how many cricketers across Yorkshire excel across the county. However, Jabir Patel of Mount Cricket Club has taken it to another level. He has sustained an incredible run of form in […]
Club cricket on the doorstep from Old Town to Harden
Throughout West Yorkshire, you are never far from a game of club cricket. Halifax, Sheffield, Leeds, Huddersfield and Bradford are all teeming with clubs but that’s really just the start. So, Saturday came and an experiment of sorts…to see what was out there on the doorstep (within 15 miles of CYHQ), armed only with a […]
Driffield Town Cricket Club nets deliver for the community
Driffield Town Cricket Club’s new ’tp365’ Non Turf Cricket Practice Facility, installed by total-play, has been a slow burner; a patient journey but it is now pride of place. On my travels around Yorkshire, I see superb facilities spring up year-on-year but the dedication and collaboration to make it happen can often take years. Discussions […]
Disability Cricket: Super 1s has arrived in Yorkshire!
Super 1s is a recent cricketing success story that has now come to Yorkshire. It offers young people with disabilities, aged 12-25, the opportunity to regularly play cricket and had its official launch at the end of May in London, backed by none other than Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow. Through the creation of community cricket […]
Martin Ivill on life as Yorkshire Over 60s cricket captain
Nowhere in the lyrics by the Beatles of ‘When I’m 64’ does it mention scrapping against the new ball on a sapping afternoon at Kirkstall Educational in the Over 60s County Championship. Such reticence by John Lennon and Paul McCartney reflects the fact that even though cricket is viewed as a game where we can play […]