Cricket Yorkshire

John Fuller

Ben Coad on aggression, belief and the County Championship

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In the aftermath of the hypnotic conclusion to Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s County Championship liftoff against Hampshire, the Friday heroics of Ben Coad felt like another lifetime. The message from Director of Cricket Martyn Moxon and Head Coach Andrew Gale has been for the young pretenders to push harder for a first-team shirt. Cue a […]

Peter Handscomb on Yorkshire CCC and Championship cricket

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Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s overseas player Peter Handscomb is admirably chipper given he got off a plane from Australia the previous evening. He smiles and blinks into the Headingley sunshine before we shake hands and get down to business. The 25-year-old had a blistering start to his Test career by racking up seven consecutive scores over fifty […]

Geoffrey Boycott on Yorkshire, cricket-playing fleas and steak and kidney pie

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Geoffrey Boycott begins our interview with an apology. I suspect, like a well-paced innings, timing his numerous commitments is crucial but the phone line has been momentarily engaged by someone else: “Sorry…I couldn’t ger im’ off…” The ex-Yorkshire and England batsmen, now firmly established as outspoken commentator on BBC Test Match Special, has agreed to […]

Remembering Tom Hardman: TH96

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As the current first-class fixture between Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Leeds Bradford MCCU draws to a close on Tuesday at Headingley, spare a thought for a player no longer with us. For those that knew him, 28 November 2012 will forever be etched in the memory when the talented cricketer Tom Hardman died, just shy […]

Yorkshire Cricket College is coming this September

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When I was sixteen, I thought about cricket, girls and the next meal. The motivations of Julius Caesar, fiendish fractions and the periodic table went in one ear and out the other. This might have explained why my GCSE results passed only a vague resemblance to the infinitely more positive predicted grades my teachers thought […]

How to upgrade your cricket bat

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Picture the scene. It’s Saturday morning and the prospect of cricket puts a spring in your step. Your fixture at Upper Cragdale 3rd XI is looming and you gingerly prize open your dormant kitbag that reveals muddy, stale whites, several entirely new forms of bacteria and other treasures. Sound familiar? Ok, so some of you […]

Leeds Bradford MCCU raring to go

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Lisa on BBC Look North had promised sunshine and mild temperatures but as the Northern Rail bonerattler dragged its way indignantly to Burley Park station, the clouds were grizzling, moping and pouting. The briefest of pitstops on Cardigan Road at Slips Deli afforded the luxury of taking the weight off my scrawny pins, unaccustomed as […]

Yorkshire County Cricket Club AGM: Stick, twist or bust?

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Before my debut appearance at a Yorkshire County Cricket Club AGM, there were more pressing concerns at hand as a fine mizzle descended: where can you get a decent cooked breakfast around Headingley before 9am? Tripadvisor led to Caffe Latte on Otley Road (superb) and appreciable calm on my own, sprawled out on a leather […]

The cricketing accident that we can all learn from

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The stitches that ran like a wobbly railway track from ear to ear have been removed but for Lightcliffe Cricket Club’s Alex Tait, recovery from a horrific accident is a day at a time. Monday 13th February 2017 was when life changed forever; while bowling at an indoor nets session, Alex was hit in the face […]