A few weeks back, my Sunday was given over to Old Sharlston Cricket Club vs Great Preston in the opening round of the National Village Cup. The day began as days always should with a highly nutritious, low-calorie (very) premature lunch…a Greggs sausage roll on the concourse of Wakefield Westgate railway station. The friendliness of […]
Cricket and Caroline’s cheeseburgers at Clifton Alliance
Clifton Alliance Cricket Club had come up in conversation and been recommended a few times by those that know their cricket and it did not disappoint. Ostensibly visiting York Cricket Club for The Cricket Paper, a growing stomach and rumours of a ‘proper cricket tea’ meant wandering over to CACC’s refurbished clubhouse was a no-brainer. […]
House of York primed for Premier League North assault
York Cricket Club’s Clifton Park HQ would not be out of place on a nature reserve, its wooden panel frontage and shimmering glass aesthetic augmented by the expanse of balcony. There were no curlews or lapwings in attendance for this ECB Yorkshire Premier League North fixture on parade from the viewing platform but pockets of […]
How do cricket clubs grow their membership?
Imagine you are a member of a gym and when renewal swings round, they ask for your cash, expect you to sign up again and yet don’t really express why you should. It might be the nudge you need or you might feel like they should have tried harder to keep your business and decide […]
Hanging Heaton display Bradford Premier League credentials
For this asthmatic and somewhat unfit forty-something, the steep incline from Batley railway station that leads to Hanging Heaton Cricket Club’s Bennett Lane base almost defeated me. Nonetheless, cricket was in the offing and I arrived red-faced and pleased for the nippy wind that offset the promise of sunshine and a Bradford Premier League fixture […]
Transfer Centre: Yorkshire’s ECB Premier Leagues for 2017
This is Cricket Yorkshire’s transfer news exclusive featuring all four ECB Premier leagues in Yorkshire. You won’t get this collated news anywhere else…if you get value out of the read, please share it on Twitter/Facebook using the buttons top or bottom of this page. Who has moved clubs? What are the teams across all of the leagues? Here’s […]
Scenic splendour and gigantic scones at Cawthorne
Sat on a sofa in Huddersfield’s Cafe Society a few streets from St. George’s Square, the prospect of watching the earliest league cricket in Yorkshire, if not the country, was the reason I was grinning like a buffoon. The theme to the Austin Powers film bounced off the walls (‘Soul Bossa Nova’ by Quincy Jones […]
Gary Ballance talks captaincy and fast bowling promise
Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s captain Gary Ballance has come a long way in between our interviews that have bookended his Yorkshire career. I first met ‘Gaz’ as a shy teenager breaking into the first-team squad, who eyed my recording device suspiciously and spoke as bluntly as he was to end up treating the bowling from […]
Ben Coad on aggression, belief and the County Championship
In the aftermath of the hypnotic conclusion to Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s County Championship liftoff against Hampshire, the Friday heroics of Ben Coad felt like another lifetime. The message from Director of Cricket Martyn Moxon and Head Coach Andrew Gale has been for the young pretenders to push harder for a first-team shirt. Cue a […]
Remembering Tom Hardman: TH96
As the current first-class fixture between Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Leeds Bradford MCCU draws to a close on Tuesday at Headingley, spare a thought for a player no longer with us. For those that knew him, 28 November 2012 will forever be etched in the memory when the talented cricketer Tom Hardman died, just shy […]