With the cricket season around the corner, I thought it was an ideal time to introduce the companies and organisations that Cricket Yorkshire will be working with commercially for the rest of 2016. I’m delighted that they are all people I’ve worked with for a number of years, whom complement the readership and content on […]
Why Yorkshire CCC can win the County Championship
The first sign that Yorkshire County Cricket Club won’t have it all their own way in 2016 emerged in the United Arab emirates when the MCC defeated them by four wickets. The loss was a rarity in four-day cricket for the White Rose county who were only defeated once in 2015 and once in 2014 […]
Meet the cricket groundsman at Bradford Park Avenue
Nasa Hussain, cricket groundsman at Bradford Park Avenue, picks me up outside Bradford Forster Square railway station in a white van that’s part of a scheme to collect household cooking oil. As we weave our way through the morning city traffic, I glance round the interior which hints at a multitude of projects. A tennis […]
Going, going on! What’s a cricket memorabilia auction like?
The journey over to Lancashire County Cricket Club for my first-ever cricket memorabilia auction is spent in the back of a car, listening to seasoned collectors Brian and Bob swap anecdotes. On the outskirts of Manchester, we pass through Swinton and, paused at a set of traffic lights, my eye is drawn to a bloke […]
Lauren Winfield: Big Bash League and Women’s Cricket Super League
Yorkshire and England cricketer Lauren Winfield has had quite the winter. Snapped up by Brisbane Heat for the inaugural Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL), the 25-year-old from York swapped soggy Yorkshire for Australian sunshine. In the same squad as England team mate Kate Cross and opener Beth Mooney, who played for Yorkshire Women last summer, […]
Alex Lees: Captaincy, cooking and career development
As Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s one-day captain, Alex Lees, stands bolt upright, prepped for interview, the shrieks of young cricketers bounce off the walls of the Indoor Cricket Centre at Headingley. We’re at the launch of the Drax Cup, the country’s biggest under 9 tournament, and the 2015 winners Greenhill Primary School from Sheffield are […]
Moin Ashraf: Fresh start with Leeds Bradford MCCU
When fast bowler Moin Ashraf was released by Yorkshire County Cricket Club in September 2015, it could have been an abrupt end to a promising career. The Bradford-born seamer had been with the county since the age of 15 but after forging a prominent part in Yorkshire’s T20 campaign in 2012, he’d not played first-team […]
Will Geoffrey Boycott be on board?
The release of Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s financial results up to the end of 2015 should have been a relatively dry and uneventful day for news. The positive announcement that the county club had broken into profit for the first time since 2009 was somewhat deflated as a subsequent media storm broke concerning the candidacy […]
Meet the agent clinching the deals in club cricket
Cricket agent Stewart Molyneux describes himself as a ‘straight talking Yorkshireman who doesn’t pull any punches.’
Can public cricket events thrive out of season?
On Sunday, with the help of caffeine and Mrs Cricket Yorkshire, I got myself on a Leeds train at an ungodly hour down to London King’s Cross to attend the All Out Cricket Live event at Lord’s. Having written for All Out Cricket Magazine, it was a chance to meet their team and find out […]