As my fingers clatter over the keyboard to bring you this article, it is raining outside. Not chucking, tipping or siling it down but appropriate enough as this feature is all about a cricket club battered by floods, stripped to the bone but now back on its feet. Let’s rewind to August on a Saturday […]
What are the lingering questions for Yorkshire CCC fans?
The county cricket season is officially over for Yorkshire CCC and in the harsh light of a crushing 376-run defeat in Essex, it has been far from a classic for those supporting the White Rose. That final nail in the 2017 coffin was the heaviest defeat (by runs) in the history of the club. Ponder […]
Restrictions on overseas cricketers are damaging club cricket
The news that Frinton-on-Sea Cricket Club lost their appeal to a Tribunal of the Two Counties Cricket Championship (TCCC) over the eligibility of their Australian player, Blake Reed, could have far-reaching implications for club cricket. If you’re unfamiliar with the saga to date, it revolves around an Essex club defending the status of one of […]
The Cricket Yorkshire 50 returns: Who’s in? Who’s out?
Ok, so last September I published the Cricket Yorkshire 50 – a shortlist designed to spark debate but mainly to give a nod to those from England cricketers to heros on the village green. It melted time and space and most of Yorkshire’s power supply for a year was thirstily slurped up coping with the […]
Black Sheep Final washout at Masham but hosts excel
There was a heart-stopping moment when our car breached the top of the hill before descending into the North Yorkshire market town of Masham where the expansive views are revealed and everyone gasped. It was akin to the unrolling of a treasure map before our eyes. The Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is one […]
Yorkshire Cricket Foundation celebrates a blockbuster summer
The Yorkshire Cricket Foundation (YCF) has been at full throttle this summer delivering education and community programmes all over Yorkshire with a cricketing twist. As the final feature of our series of articles showcasing what the cricket charity (based at Yorkshire County Cricket Club) does, we thought a roundup of their activities would offer readers […]
Heavy Woollen Cup Final delivers tradition and pies
On assignment for The Cricket Paper, this year’s Heavy Woollen Cup Final was a welcome return to Bradford Premier League leaders and 2017 hosts, Hanging Heaton. A trip back in April had involved ketchup-slathered chips, a talk to Townville’s West Indian overseas player Shkym Haynes and an appreciation for Hanging Heaton’s early league credentials. This […]
Settle Cricket Club: game on in the Yorkshire Dales
Among the many definitions, the word ‘settle’ is to resolve something, come to rest or make a home and having now visited Settle Cricket Club, all three seem as if they fit snugly in this North Yorkshire town. It’s not a quick journey from Cricket Yorkshire HQ and we travelled in hope rather than expectation; […]
Yorkshire Cricket Foundation’s mission on heritage
Where better than the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation Museum to learn about the future direction of the cricketing heritage of the county? After a group of primary schoolchildren have been shown around by Mel Reuben, one of the charity’s Tour Guides, quiet descends and I sit down with Paul Goodman, Heritage Manager for the Yorkshire Cricket […]
YCB OSCAs champion the role of volunteering in cricket
If it was up to me, I would stream the Yorkshire Cricket Board Outstanding Service to Cricket Awards (OSCAs) ceremony live and make it compulsory viewing for those that portray grassroots cricket in a negative light. For a couple of hours, ahead of David Willey’s whirlwind hundred and Yorkshire’s T20 win over Worcestershire Rapids, invited […]