Right. That’s it. I have had enough. Consider this England’s World Cup rocket from a position of extreme grumpiness. I have sat up into the early hours, with only a strong mug of tea and a crème egg for companionship, to watch England get absolutely decimated three times now. There comes a tipping point in […]
2019 Cricket World Cup moves to December
Following on from football’s re-shuffling of a global tournament, we have something of a world exclusive… **The 2019 creeckit World Cup in England will now be held in December.** It will have its own hashtag and everything: #wintercricketworldcup. Woolly hats off to the organisers for realising that this bold move will radically shake up world […]
How a cricket partnership can galvanise efforts against cancer
On World Cancer Day (Wednesday 4 February), my focus was on the funeral of a family member who lost his battle with cancer. It’s a terrible group of diseases that has brutally rampaged through my family of late and reminded me both to be thankful for every day and also what is truly important in […]
Yorkshire – A Champion Year
Here’s something of an odd admission to kick off a cricket book review. I don’t tend to read cricket books; at least not for a bit of light entertainment away from work. The Cricket Yorkshire office has had its January de-clutter so is looking even more Spartan than normal. Even so, the absence of books […]
The 4,458-mile trip to start the county season
The fact that Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s opening fixture of the 2015 county season takes place on another continent is, well, a bit of an oddity.
Why don’t more people play indoor cricket?
It’s at this time of year when winter has got her fingers wrapped around us that cricket has never felt further away. Foggy breath and a pickaxe to de-ice the car in the morning while your cricket bag is gathering dust wherever you put it since that last September fixture. Well, here’s the thing. Why […]
Scarborough Heartache to County Champions
Yorkshire’s historic championship in 2014 may have been sealed with an emphatic victory over Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in September, but the seeds for that triumph were sown in the dark despair of 12 months earlier in a dejected dressing room at the Oval.
Exploring the game in Sri Lanka with Island Cricket
Island Cricket is a digital success story. The website features all aspects of Sri Lankan cricket with a blend of curated content that’s either been submitted by fans or written by staff. Have a read as we discuss Sri Lankan cricket. *This article from 2014 is a rare feature on international cricket and is being […]
What can rugby union teach English cricket?
Opportunities like these really don’t crop up too often sitting next to England Rugby Football Union Coach Stuart Lancaster, who is guest speaker at Headingley.
Kirkstall Educational CC’s Vandalism Nightmare
It takes a particular brand of moron to repeatedly vandalise a cricket club, over and over, mindlessly seeking to destroy the hard work put in by volunteers and the local community.