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 […]
Is there a future for cricket club programmes?
A strange realisation gripped me the other day. I was writing Christmas cards while troughing a door wedge of chocolate yule log and it became apparent that I have forgotten how to write. When was the last time you picked up a pen and actually wrote anything as opposed to fired up the keyboard and […]
How Zwingo Sports can liven up your cricket training
Zwingo Sports is set to make headlines in 2019 after the Zwingo cricket training tool that we featured before on Cricket Yorkshire, proved so popular. As we’ll explore here, the company is scaling up its plans to revolutionise how we play cricket and help us to train smarter. For its Founder Brett Hillary, 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 […]
Cricket Asylum: Technology, coaching transformation and the ultimate cricket tours
Over the last six years, tucked away in a corner of the county, the team at The Cricket Asylum have been quietly getting on with their job of giving cricketers opportunities to develop that – until they opened the doors to their 4th floor mill premises – could be hard to find. The technology-led coaching […]
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 […]