The Yorkshire Cricket Board (YCB) have held their annual awards ceremony to recognise the outstanding contributions across Yorkshire recreational cricket. Reflecting the growing appreciation for volunteers and interest in the Outstanding Services to Cricket Awards (OSCAs), this year’s event moved from Stumps restaurant to Headingley Carnegie pavilion. With BBC Radio Leeds’ Dave Callaghan on the […]
Does franchise cricket affect the Scarborough Festival?
The debate around city-based T20 franchises in England and Wales has erupted again with the news that Sky has offered £40m a year to broadcast a new Twenty20 tournament for 2017. If this is to be believed, eight city-based teams would play in a three-week block in summer with games screened in the evenings. It […]
Cricket at Bolton Abbey: what’s not to like?
Of the 750 or so clubs across Yorkshire, many boast a charm of their own due to geography, history and often as not, the people who live and breath the game. The point of this particular Saturday afternoon was to go along and hear from those at a progressive club in the Theakston Nidderdale League […]
Yorkshire Vikings target one-day cricket success
Yorkshire County Cricket Club can now turn their attention fully to the Royal London One-Day Cup safe in the knowledge that little distracts them from a proper crack at one-day cricket. After being dumped out of the NatWest T20 Blast (less said the better) and then winning at Scarborough to go a whopping 34 points […]
Halifax Cricket League: Queensbury vs Blackley
The 576 Halifax bus from Bradford wheezed and strained its way up Great Horton Road, up, up and away, further into the clouds until reaching the village of Queensbury. Deposited opposite Oxford Road, the last bit on foot takes the intrepid traveller up a quiet country lane to the highest (league) cricket ground in England, […]
How does the month of Ramadan affect cricketers?
In 2015, John Fuller talked with club cricketers in Yorkshire about the challenges and rewards of Ramadan. The month of Ramadan represents the holiest month in the year for Muslims around the world and for those that play cricket, it can offer both challenges and a positive impact on their game. In the Islamic calendar, […]
Are overseas cricketers still value for county cricket?
There is a very short and sweet answer to that question but in the spirit of cricket debate, let’s kick this topic around. The reason for the article in the first place has been rumblings from the Ridings about Aaron Finch – now sadly off back to Oz after a broken foot ended his unsuccessful […]
Foss Evening League: Retreat vs Tigers
If there’s one thing guaranteed in Yorkshire, it’s that you’ll find superb amateur cricket stories round every corner. In this case, the Retreat is a specialist mental health provider whose sprawling complex of buildings are on Heslington Road in York. The Retreat Cricket Club plays within the grounds and dates back to 1889 with the […]
Leeds Bradford MCCU scorch to Lord’s Final win
Leeds Bradford MCCU got their hands on some silverware at the third time of asking in an eventful season with a convincing victory over Cardiff at Lords. The squad lost out in two semi-finals in June in other formats but this 117-run triumph at the home of cricket (after Scarborough, obviously) will go some way […]
Yorkshire Women dominate at Harrogate
Yorkshire Women visited Harrogate Cricket Club on Sunday for the Royal London One Day Cup against Middlesex; a chance to see how Mark Loker’s squad fared in this fifty-over competition. Packed with England internationals from Lauren Winfield to Katherine Brunt, Yorkshire had firepower in abundance, on paper at least, to cover everything the visitors could […]