Cue the howls of protest at that headline. Now before Disgruntled of Huddersfield or Unimpressed of Bradford gets in touch, hold your horses and let me explain. I want to see more get involved than the 850,000 or so in England and Wales who currently play cricket. I’d like anyone of any age to get […]
Yorkshire U17 Girls shine at Spofforth Cricket Club
Stepping down off the train at Pannal, the local Women’s Institute were doing a spot of pruning at what must be one of the finest floral backdrops of any station. There to meet me was Steve Gill, Spofforth Cricket Club’s Chairman, for the short drive east back to his village where his club was hosting […]
English cricket needs your help, why not have your say?
I had wandered down to my cricket club on Sunday to watch the seconds do a decent job of keeping the opposition under wraps en route to the cup final. It was sappingly humid and the rain fell at stages but that didn’t stop folk supporting their club and getting stuck into the tinnies and […]
Sheffield’s cricket grounds come up trumps
Our Saturday of exploring cricket in Sheffield actually began outside the city with a dip into Sheffield & Phoenix United Cricket Club in Brinsworth, south of Rotherham. It was a local derby at Bawtry Road where Sheffield Collegiate’s first eleven were the visitors and as we climbed out of the car, the LBW shout against […]
Yorkshire & Derbyshire Cricket League: Parkhead vs Sheffield Collegiate
When we pulled into the car park at the back of the Toby Carvery on Sheffield’s Ecclesall Road South, it was with something of a heavy heart as it looked like there was movement with Parkhead Cricket Club’s ground covers going on. The reality of Saturday’s weather had been nothing like the morning forecast – […]
Quiz: What’s your cricket IQ?
A bit of fun for you all…to distract you from a hard slog at work or maybe you’re stuck on a train somewhere and need some quick entertainment. Take part in this quick-fire quiz across TEST, COUNTY and CLUB categories. Just 12 questions and all will be revealed… At the end, depending on your answers, […]
Wickets and IPL stardust at Hull Cricket Club
Finding Hull Cricket Club’s ground on Chanterlands Avenue North proved our first test for this Saturday morning. Brian, who some of you will know if you’ve read All Wickets Great and Small, is nothing if not old school. So no maps, not paper nor one filled with computer pixels, just Brian’s usually Encyclopaedic memory of […]
Quaid-e-Azam League at Bradford Park Avenue
As midday approaches, Bradford feels like it’s only just tentatively waking with a muggy walk up Laisteridge Lane towards Bradford Park Avenue. Today is all about a Quaid-e-Azam Sunday Cricket League match between White Rose and Indus Ghari in the semi-final of the chefgenie Shield. Not one to stand on ceremony, my eye is caught […]
Yorkshire V Cancer at the Ingilby Shield
The forecast bleakly predicted rain. Siling it down, as they say here in Yorkshire. The graphic on my smartphone was prophesising a light soaking building to the kind of downpour where you anxiously seek higher ground. Sunday’s Theakston Nidderdale Cricket League Ingilby Shield fixture – pitting a League Representative XI against a team of overseas […]
What was it like writing a cricket book?
So, I’ve joined the ranks of published cricket authors now that All Wickets Great and Small – an exploration by foot, bus and rail last summer of Yorkshire club cricket – is out in all good book shops. The book launch at Waterstones Leeds last Friday saw friends, family, cricket fans and those who know […]