My own earliest memories of cricket are from the dim and distant past when I first played for my school team in the eighties. In junior school, I was a beanpole, marginally successful, left-arm ‘spinner’ who didn’t spin the ball. Nowadays, they call that delivery ‘the arm ball’ but back then, kids would chuckle and […]
Foss Evening League: Retreat vs Tigers
If there’s one thing guaranteed in Yorkshire, it’s that you’ll find superb amateur cricket stories round every corner. In this case, the Retreat is a specialist mental health provider whose sprawling complex of buildings are on Heslington Road in York. The Retreat Cricket Club plays within the grounds and dates back to 1889 with the […]
Which Ashes cricketer are you?
Everybody loves a quiz. Don’t worry, this isn’t the ‘what was the colour of the handerchief fluttered by a lady in the crowd at the 1872 Ashes‘ kind of quiz. Instead, daft, fun and you’ll end up being aligned with one of four current Ashes cricketers. Just five questions to whip through… **Do take part […]
The Strange Death of English Leg Spin
A little like a Japanese graphic novel, I’m reading a thought-provoking cricket book about English leg-spin backwards in order to review it. No sniggering at the back…no, that doesn’t mean it must be a short book either because of the subject matter. You just wait to be suitably enlightened. I can’t testify as to whether […]
Disability cricket showcased at Roses fixture
On a Sunday morning where brooding clouds grizzled along the skyline, punctuated only by light drizzle, cricket felt a slim possibility. But happily, as it turns out, the Roses disability game at Undercliffe Cricket Club high above Bradford was to be a remarkable showcase for the game we all love. First, a mention for the […]
Give your Ashes verdict and Win an Adidas England Test Shirt
Hey everyone. So, the titanic sporting battle over a trophy the size of an egg cup is nearly here! The Ashes is about as mouth-watering as it gets in professional cricket so we thought there ought to be a prize to win recognising that. Ashes predictions have been made infamous in recent decades by Australian […]
Leeds Bradford MCCU scorch to Lord’s Final win
Leeds Bradford MCCU got their hands on some silverware at the third time of asking in an eventful season with a convincing victory over Cardiff at Lords. The squad lost out in two semi-finals in June in other formats but this 117-run triumph at the home of cricket (after Scarborough, obviously) will go some way […]
Hitting cancer for six through cricket
It was time for another Cricket Yorkshire travel adventure…if you’ve not been before, Altofts Cricket Club lies at the Northern fringes of this Yorkshire village outside Wakefield. The quickest route on foot from Normanton railway station requires a meander along Wakefield Wheel, a pleasant path that cuts through grassland and on a day as I […]
Yorkshire Women dominate at Harrogate
Yorkshire Women visited Harrogate Cricket Club on Sunday for the Royal London One Day Cup against Middlesex; a chance to see how Mark Loker’s squad fared in this fifty-over competition. Packed with England internationals from Lauren Winfield to Katherine Brunt, Yorkshire had firepower in abundance, on paper at least, to cover everything the visitors could […]
Cricket clubs lose out through poor broadband
This being the age of social media, cricket clubs have the tools like never before to attract membership and keep everyone informed online as to how they’re doing. But there is a significant problem to this land of opportunity and that is a lack of any-speed, let alone superfast broadband across the UK. When was […]