The news that BT Sport has won the UK TV rights to broadcast the next Ashes in Australia in 2017-18 was greeted here at CYHQ with a dollop of grumpiness, lashings of indignation and a sprinkling of excitement. The five-year deal between the broadcaster and Cricket Australia, understood to be a cool £80m, once again […]
Yorkshire league cricket: thirteen cricket grounds in a day
A few weekends back, Brian from the Cricket Heritage blog, offered his set of wheels and a pottering journey around Yorkshire league cricket grounds North of Leeds. The opportunity to ditch the camera in favour of just a smartphone (photos below) and the bus and rail timetables is a real blessing. Not to mention the […]
Yorkshire’s batsmen enjoy the sea air at Hove
From time to time, writers submit their thoughts for consideration on Cricket Yorkshire and there’s been some really popular articles around club cricket this season. As Yorkshire take their final few strides towards the LV=County Championship title (or not), it’s the turn of county cricket as Tom Collins took the train down to the Sussex […]
Death of a Gentleman: cricket documentary with bite
Spoiler alert. If you care about the game of cricket in any way, shape or form, the cricket documentary, Death of a Gentleman, will have you weeping into your popcorn – if you haven’t already chucked it at the screen when Giles Clarke appears. This is absorbing viewing, as skilfully put together as any Joe […]
How many people play recreational cricket in Yorkshire?
Ok, so that’s a rhetorical question….which will lead me ingeniously to the real, cunning motive behind this plea. You can do a lot in five minutes. Make a cuppa and raid the biscuit tin for good measure. Bowl an over (if the ball doesn’t get bunted into a hedgerow). Alternatively, cricket clubs across Yorkshire, yes, […]
Welcome to Glasshouses: village cricket at its best
Today’s adventure to the village of Glasshouses is a shunt north along the A59, dipping in and out of Nidderdale communities on the number 24 bus heading for Pateley Bridge. It’s pleasantly warm; sunshine peeks from behind candyfloss clouds to light up the Yorkshire countryside and the bus driver looks satisfyingly immaculate, sporting a red […]
The search for that all-conquering overseas cricketer
View image | gettyimages.com Picture the scene – it’s 1992 and Yorkshire County Cricket Club have finally decided to abandon their rule which allowed them to only select players born in Yorkshire. They were in the market for – whisper it quietly – an overseas player. “By ‘eck…’ow does thee go abart findin’ one o’t […]
Pitchero sponsors Cricket Yorkshire Awards
Picture this, if you will… Somewhere in a glitzy, Hollywood venue, sweaty Yorkshire batsmen, with grass stains covering their buttocks, pick mud from their spikes while waiting to hear if they’ve won summat. Umpires, sticklers for presentation, sit all present and correct, white coats ironed within an inch of their lives, clicking their counters and […]
Joe Root to David Willey: Your cricket week in numbers
While some cricket statistics remain etched into time like barnacles on a boat, others are at risk as were the sand castles braced for the lapping waves on Scarborough’s North Bay Beach during this year’s cricket festival. If the briefest summer shower of cricket stats is your thing then here we go… 1 – The […]
Gale’s decision prompts Yorkshire split captaincy
So, Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s Andrew Gale has relinquished his limited-overs captaincy with immediate effect. The news comes in the wake of a poor NatWest T20 Blast campaign where the county under-performed and failed to make the knock-out stages. Gale also drew criticism from certain quarters for his wavering strike-rate as a T20 opening batsmen […]