Typical challenges facing cricket clubs can be anything from scraping enough funds together to replace a mower to sourcing a wicketkeeper on the morning of a game. The number of cricket clubs has been steadily declined in Yorkshire for years and the reasons for that will vary but not being able to get enough willing […]
How to get the best out of cricket nets
Unless you’ve been hurling yourself around a sports hall playing indoor cricket this winter, cricket nets will be when club cricketers ease their Christmas turkey-enhanced bodies back to fitness and form in time for (or during) the 2016 season. Here’s a shortlist of tips and tricks to make sure all cricketers and clubs get the […]
Meet the Yorkshire cricketer still playing in his eighties
What will you be doing when you’re eighty years old? Batting for your village cricket team still? Yeah. Thought not, me neither, although Mrs Cricket Yorkshire begs to differ. Well, thanks to a wonderful cricket documentary by TV Producer Chris Hay, the world can get to hear about Yorkshire cricketer Geoff Deighton, who is still […]
Cricket Fixtures: Your Yorkshire Cricket Year Ahead
Ok, so you want to get organised. January is here so the 2016 cricket season is literally around the corner. Or so you tell yourself… What you need is a calendar with key cricket fixtures to get you excited and to smoothly orchestrate your summer.
New Year’s Resolutions: deep heat and book deal
Ok, so the Christmas turkey has long since bitten the dust and January is here, heralding a land of opportunity. Have you thought about your 2016? What do you want it to look like? Any projects, ambitions or changes to life or are you the sort of person that contentedly wings it? Well, both professionally […]
Your Big Bash League Guide: Yorkshire is coming
While the UK shudders from the meteorological armegeddon that saw Carlisle Cricket Club pavilion almost entirely submerged…on the other side of the world, a sun-kissed, cricketing carnival is about to launch: the Big Bash League.
Our favourite 27 cricket photos of 2015
In the course of the last year, this website has amassed a rich and varied photography archive, taken out and about across Yorkshire with DSLR and smartphone. Only a fraction of these images have ever seen the light of day, either being shared as @cricketyorks on Twitter and our Facebook page, used in articles or […]
The ultimate Christmas gift shortlist for cricket fans
Ok everyone, December is here so talk of Christmas no longer feels premature. Even though the supermarkets have been flogging mince pies since the end of the county season. Are you the type to leave Christmas shopping until the last minute then get on Amazon and click round in a state of near panic? Perhaps […]
Ditching the coin toss and don’t say balls to pink
Plans to scrap the coin toss in Division Two of the LV=County Championship next season has sent seismic, shuddering shock waves through the global game. The idea is to…wait for this decisive, bold and innovative step into the unknown…trial it for a year in 2016 to see what happens. It has yet to be rubberstamped, […]
Cricket Yorkshire’s Christmas Raffle for Cancer Research
The most memorable charity endeavour I’ve done may well have been the time I threw myself out a plane as a tandem skydive into a field in Kent some years past. There is nothing quite like travelling towards the ground at 120mph to encourage you to ponder the meaning of life. This year, the plan […]