You only have to cast your eye down the weekly honours boards for batting and bowling for the ECB’s Play Cricket website platform to note how many cricketers across Yorkshire excel across the county. However, Jabir Patel of Mount Cricket Club has taken it to another level. He has sustained an incredible run of form in […]
All Stars Cricket offers Crossflatts a promising future
Thanks to the first rain I can recall since May, I am walking along Keighley Road, soggy and pondering wretched luck – but coaches Lee Bailey and Mark Pennington have kindly agreed to meet anyway to discuss how All Stars cricket has gone down at Crossflatts Cricket Club. In case you haven’t heard about All Stars […]
Club cricket on the doorstep from Old Town to Harden
Throughout West Yorkshire, you are never far from a game of club cricket. Halifax, Sheffield, Leeds, Huddersfield and Bradford are all teeming with clubs but that’s really just the start. So, Saturday came and an experiment of sorts…to see what was out there on the doorstep (within 15 miles of CYHQ), armed only with a […]
Yorkshire Diamonds fired up for Kia Super League
On the walk up Beechwood Crescent to the Yorkshire Diamonds Media Day, swifts zigzagged above, doing aerobatic circuits through the terraced houses. A pitstop at Ugly Mugs cafe allowed pause for thought about the advent of the 2018 Kia Super League with the Yorkshire Diamonds starting against Western Storm at Taunton on Sunday 22nd July. […]
Folkton and Flixton face Scottish adventure in National Village Cup
Having been shaken, rattled and rolled as we drove from Leeds to the village of Flixton, (between Scarborough and Bridlington) along the abomination that is the A64, we found we had time to kill. This National Village Cup tie between Folkton and Flixton and Broadbottom had originally been scheduled for 1pm but pushed back until […]
T20 cricket…but not as you know it
There is a wealth of cricket being played each week across Yorkshire outside the typical formats of leagues, cups and tournaments. On a whim, I took myself off to a T20 friendly with visitors Great Horton Park Chapel coming to Beckfoot Lane, home of Bingley Congs. You might wonder what’s the point of a game of […]
Driffield Town Cricket Club nets deliver for the community
Driffield Town Cricket Club’s new ’tp365’ Non Turf Cricket Practice Facility, installed by total-play, has been a slow burner; a patient journey but it is now pride of place. On my travels around Yorkshire, I see superb facilities spring up year-on-year but the dedication and collaboration to make it happen can often take years. Discussions […]
Disability Cricket: Super 1s has arrived in Yorkshire!
Super 1s is a recent cricketing success story that has now come to Yorkshire. It offers young people with disabilities, aged 12-25, the opportunity to regularly play cricket and had its official launch at the end of May in London, backed by none other than Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow. Through the creation of community cricket […]
Martin Ivill on life as Yorkshire Over 60s cricket captain
Nowhere in the lyrics by the Beatles of ‘When I’m 64’ does it mention scrapping against the new ball on a sapping afternoon at Kirkstall Educational in the Over 60s County Championship. Such reticence by John Lennon and Paul McCartney reflects the fact that even though cricket is viewed as a game where we can play […]
Tradition and the art of pies championed at Todmorden
The blackboard at the entrance to Todmorden Cricket Club hints at the traditional heartland beyond and to one of the finest cricket grounds in Yorkshire. Their emblem of both red and white roses adorn each corner; for the record, ‘Tod’ (as locals affectionately, or with a sense of pragmatism, call it) is in Yorkshire though […]