With friendly fixtures likely outdoors in Yorkshire from April leading into league action, every cricket umpire across the land is dusting off their white coats, rummaging for ball counters and reacquainting themselves with the finer points of Duckworth-Lewis-Stern. ** There have been the usual appeals crossing my @cricketyorks Twitter timeline from leagues promoting their cricket […]
Winning momentum at Wakefield Thornes
Are Wakefield Thornes Cricket Club currently the best cricket club in Yorkshire? Discuss… Ok, that’s mischevious but the West Yorkshire club, with four senior sides and six junior teams, are understandably upbeat after their first eleven beat Pudsey St Lawrence in the Abu Dhabi final last October to be crowned the inaugural Champion club of […]
Jack Leaning on Handscomb, North vs South and batting homework
I catch Yorkshire County Cricket Club batsman Jack Leaning by phone one afternoon for a natter about winter training and he launches into the meticulous, finessed programme tailored for each player. At this time of year, downtime centres around taking it easy and boxsetting it up given the likely punishing summer schedule for the twenty-three year-old […]
Video for cricket clubs spearheads CricHQ revolution
The Queens Hotel in central Leeds is buzzing with tables in their Queens Bar taken up for business meetings. Stewart Reynolds, CricHQ’s Sales Manager for Europe, joins me for a mid-morning brew and to outline how the company are making noticeable technological strides aimed at recreational cricket. If you’re not familiar with them, CricHQ offer […]
Climate Cover helps Get The Game On
As the frost crackles the leaves and we all cross our fingers against winter floods, spare a thought for the groundsmen around the country safeguarding sporting facilities from the elements. Based in Northampton, the company total-play has been working with those professional and amateur groundsmen, designing and installing top-quality sports surfaces, including cricket covers, since […]
Back to the Future at Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Fair Warning. No time travelling cars in this article (if you noticed the ‘Back to the Future’ reference in the article title), though come to think of it, there is a Doc! So…on my roaming around the web, I noticed reference to the Yorkshire Pride Appeal funding research into causes of back injuries at Yorkshire County Cricket […]
Why Yorkshire Cricket affiliation makes sense
Club affiliation through league cricket Give or take, (whether they know it or not) 95% of cricket clubs do actually affiliate to the Yorkshire Cricket Board via the leagues as part of their annual league fees. A mention too for the Yorkshire Cricket Board’s Derek Shuttleworth who is in his mid-eighties and has been their […]
Dickie Bird: My Life in Cricket
Harold “Dickie” Bird, he of the iconic white umpire’s cap and mischievous humour wrapped in a broad Barnsley accent, has had many honours bestowed over the years from MBE and OBE to Yorkshire County Cricket Club President. The latest focus on the charismatic octagenarian sees an exhibition entitled ‘Dickie Bird: My Life in Cricket’ in […]
When did you first play cricket?
The launch of the ‘All Stars’ programme in Yorkshire was at Elland Road on Sunday. This new nationwide ECB initiative is aimed at attracting tens of thousands of five to eight year-olds to play cricket and encouraging a groundswell of popularity and young fans. Time will tell whether this latest attempt to make cricket relevant to […]
How #cricketfamily grew from a cricket friendship
Editor’s note: This is a refreshed article – with updated content for 2017 but based on a past version that audiences won’t have read on this current website. This is a remarkable story about how the digital landscape of Twitter has provided cricket clubs across the UK with the means to help each other. For those of […]