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 […]
Cricket volunteers get the nod at YCB Awards
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, […]