[SURVEY CLOSED] Your views always matter here at CYHQ and this is the time of year when I ask for readers to share their opinions on: It’s been a really encouraging year with more people reading the Cricket Yorkshire website than ever before and the goal of this survey is tweak and hone it so […]
View from the stands on Yorkshire Vikings’ Abu Dhabi T20 adventure
Yorkshire County Cricket Club fan Phil Rose reports from Abu Dhabi on the inaugural Abu Dhabi T20. Images taken by Dubai-based pro photographer Neville Hopwood who was kind enough to respond to emails on his Sunday while out in the world’s largest sand desert called the Empty Quarter. Over to Phil…. In case you missed it, Yorkshire […]
Who is the top-ranked Premier League club in Yorkshire?
It’s now been three years since the Yorkshire Cricket Board (YCB) and the various leagues restructured Yorkshire cricket. Since 2016, there have been four Premier Leagues and the winners of each meet in two semi-finals and a final to decide on Yorkshire’s Champion club. There is a caveat – any clubs winning those leagues not […]
Yorkshire Premier Leagues Final: Wakefield Thornes beat Great Ayton
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 […]
Will the Lancashire League Champions be from Yorkshire?
The Lancashire League is a cricket league that is evolving at quite a lick after 120 years of tradition and stasis around its core clubs. Back when it was blazingly hot across the country, I had the chance to watch my only my second Lancashire League game, reporting as I do on club cricket for […]
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 […]
What role does balance play for a batsman in cricket?
Brett Hillary is standing on one leg and demonstrating the importance of a batsman’s balance, as I sit attentively outside a cafe and bemused shoppers walk by. Brett’s creation, the ZWINGO® Balance, is an oblong orange box designed to unlock a batsman’s potential by helping them to improve their body movement and be in the […]