On an assignment for The Cricket Paper – ahem, article due out this Friday, buy a copy for my forthright ramblings – it was time to head for indoor cricket to watch the The ECB Indoor National Club Championship. This was a full-throttle, pocket of cricket with different rules than I was used to: blink and […]
Three Things you never knew about Yorkshire CCC signing Billy Stanlake
You will read a great deal about Billy Stanlake in the coming hours and days. Notably, that he is tall (second only to the totemic Indian beanpole Mohammad Irfan by my tape-measure), fast (clocked at 151km/h or 93.8mph) and the real deal (just ask England or New Zealand in the recent trans-Tasman T20 tri-series). WICKET! New […]
Introducing the 12th Man: a charity Yorkshire Ale
Head Brewer and Brewery Manager Ryan Truswell sounds right at home as we discuss two of his passions in life – Yorkshire ale and cricket – in an interview that nonetheless has a deadly serious twist. The Old Mill Brewery, in the East Yorkshire town of Snaith, have created a charity beer called ‘12th Man’ […]
ECB Small Grant Scheme: How cricket clubs can benefit
(Update June 2020: The ECB has reconfigured its funding for cricket clubs due to Covid-19 so visit their funding page to see the latest). As we welcome February, cricket nets will be underway and everyone is building towards the new cricket season. For cricket clubs, 2018 represents a fresh opportunity to change their circumstances for […]
It’s all change in East Yorkshire cricket for 2018
Joe Ashdown must have been a juggler in a former life; the Yorkshire Cricket Board’s Cricket Development Manager for East Yorkshire is also Yorkshire Lead for AllStars Cricket & manages Women & Girls Cricket in the county and coaches Yorkshire Womens 2nd XI. Any given week for Joe is diverse; he might be meeting with […]
How to pick the best cricket bat for your game?
For many of you cricketers, February signals a changing in the seasons just as surely as entering a different time zone: back to nets (BTN). Preparation for this ritual will depend on whether you spend winter oiling your cricket bat with affection or open your cricket bag, after months of fermentation, with a hazmat suit […]
Alex Wharf on making the grade as international umpire
On learning that former Yorkshire all-rounder Alex Wharf had been appointed to the Emirates International Panel of ICC Umpires for 2018, I got on the phone to have a blether. Wharf came up through Yorkshire Academy but the right-arm medium-fast bowler moved to Nottinghamshire in 1997 after being unable to cement a spot at Headingley. […]
Yorkshire Pathways: Elite Junior cricket in Yorkshire
Since last October, Jim Love has been in post as the Yorkshire Cricket Board’s Elite Junior Cricket Coordinator. I talked to him recently about his role as well as the ongoing plans for junior cricket in Yorkshire. Jim comes with a substantial playing and coaching CV that includes two decades of first-class cricket for Yorkshire […]
Latest: Yorkshire’s Premier League Winter Transfers
Each year, Cricket Yorkshire does a transfer roundup ahead of the first ECB Premier League games in Yorkshire (normally mid-April). Well, given football has its transfer window, it felt like an apt time to offer a mid-winter transfer update across Yorkshire’s four ECB Premier leagues, in addition to the pre-season article in a few months […]
Who’s Who of The Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Who’s Who of The Yorkshire County Cricket Club sounds like it could be the most contentious book ever written. The only way to avoid controversy over who’s in and who’s out in a mammoth compilation of this kind is to include all 670 men who have represented the county. Yes, that’s all those who played […]