Brook-Walton Cricket Club, who were formed in 2013 as an entirely new cricket club, are reluctantly calling it a day at the end of this season because of a lack of players. It was the vision of ex-Streethouse and Wrenthorpe cricketer Richard Vigars to start something from scratch and their first competitive fixture was away […]
Triangle Cricket Club: Small but perfectly formed
The allure of Triangle Cricket Club can be reached by winding your way down a hill that puts you the summit of a rollercoaster; before plunging over, down, left and right through the village to the aptly named Grassy Bottom. Parking requires creative thinking and as we did a seven-point turn, glimpses of the cricket […]
Who are the leading teams and performers across Yorkshire’s ECB Premier Leagues?
Welcome to Cricket Yorkshire’s roundup of action across all four ECB Premier League across Yorkshire. As we head into July, there’s been enough cricket to see to ascertain who’s setting the pace, who’s struggling in the relegation spots and who is excelling with bat and ball? Bradford Premier League Last Saturday, there was a titanic […]
Day-night Championship cricket: novel but don’t take the members for granted
The advent of day-night County Championship cricket with a pink ball. What would Fred Trueman have made of it all? It was tempting to suggest the historic part of this experiment was not the floodlights or late start times but the presence of all of the England players for their counties. Seeing Jonny Bairstow playing […]
Records tumble at Pudsey St Lawrence but was it right?
Pudsey St Lawrence’s record-breaking 2nd XI Priestley Shield home tie with Brighouse will go down in history for any number of reasons. The Toft Road crowd saw their team go from 66-2 to 525-3 as Jack Allman hit 258 off 141 balls and Harry Cullingford was unbeaten on 206 before a curious declaration three balls […]
Cricket debates at Bradford Literature Festival
This year’s Bradford Literature Festival takes place between 30 June and 9 July incorporating 400 writers and 300 events across ten days. It promises to be a wonderful whirlwind of literature, debate and entertainment for all ages and I’m delighted to be a guest panellist on 1 July at 11am in Bradford’s City Hall Banqueting […]
Grey Fox Trophy: 50 Not Out at Church Fenton
Sunday got off to an inauspicious start. I made a grumbling noise of disapproval, like a wave crashing onto a beach, at the cost of a rail ticket to Church Fenton to watch Wetherby Wrinklies take on Bolton Villas in the over 50s competition, the Grey Fox Trophy. Ow much?! “It’s nearly at York,” said […]
Wickets and wow factor at Eggborough Power Station
You can see the humongous chimneys of Eggborough Power Station for miles before you actually turn into the main entrance. In a cluttered vista of power lines and industry, they stand as monumental guardians. This is Yorkshire’s power station square mile (not literally but they’re close enough) with Drax and Ferrybridge also in the vicinity. […]
Bradford Park Avenue cricket nets signal transformation
Crunching along the gravel path at Bradford Park Avenue’s cricket ground off Canterbury Avenue took me to the newly installed eight-lane, non-turf cricket nets. Walls of chipboard and construction detritus highlight that this ambitious £5.5m project to transform a much-loved former county cricket venue into a top-class sports facility are ongoing but that in itself […]
Martin Andersson vying with Gary Ballance as first to 1,000 runs
Two of the most prolific batsmen in the embryonic stage of our cricketing summer are from Yorkshire. Yorkshire County Cricket Club captain Gary Ballance is one (scoring hundreds for fun) but can you name the other? Leeds Bradford MCCU batsman Martin Andersson is not a name who is up in lights just yet but he […]