This is about new housing, planning permission, red tape, proximity to a cricket club, Sport England, flawed references to Freddie Flintoff, risk assessments and common sense. Add in an intervention by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir Starmer and things get interesting. While my article on Scarborough Cricket Club’s first-team was blowing […]
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Eye-catching transfers across Yorkshire’s Premier Leagues
If you’re reading this in March (or later), you might have missed this transfers snapshot from early-2025. Since my last feature picking out eight player moves, there’s been more deals done. If opportunity presents itself, I will dabble with the moves from other Yorkshire leagues but for now, I’ve picked out a few player transfers […]
Yorkshire CCC: Talent search in Premier Leagues
Yorkshire County Cricket Club have announced a talent scouting initiative in the region’s five ECB Premier Leagues. In an interview on the YCCC website, Yorkshire’s general manager of cricket Gavin Hamilton shared plans to identify players, aged from 17-22, in the top tier of club cricket. Photo: Caught Light Photography Hamilton said: “League cricket in […]
Anthony McGrath: Q&As, club cricket and digital scouting
Anthony McGrath, Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s new Men’s Head Coach, is discussing the fact that he’s only just arrived but is already going on tour. It was announced in October that the former Essex Director of Cricket had signed a five-year contract with Yorkshire. His pedigree speaks for itself with the Double of the County […]
Yorkshire’s clubs get cold snap – then the big thaw
Yorkshire’s cricket clubs are no strangers to the slings and arrows of outrageous weather. But as I hunker down and roll my eyes at the temperature reaching -11°C in Bingley, thoughts turn to volunteers. In my neck of the woods, Bradford & Bingley Cricket Club (who are well versed in dealing with massive and regular […]
Eight player transfers to watch for the 2025 season
In Yorkshire club cricket, the transfer market has been in full swing as teams across leagues strengthen their squads. There’s been quite a few player moves this side of Christmas and I’ve picked out eight that caught my eye. Sam Wisniewski (Pudsey Congs to Wakefield Thornes) Left-arm wrist-spinner Sam Wisniewski is swapping leagues as the […]
Aire-Wharfe League: Rodley and Follifoot await vote nervously
In the Aire-Wharfe Cricket League, there is an annual vote by all member clubs, revealed at their AGM, as to whether to retain the two lowest ranked clubs – or eject them. For 2024, the two clubs at risk of being without a cricket league to join for 2025 are Rodley and Follifoot. It is […]
Richmondshire are Yorkshire Premier League Champions
Leaving home to seek out a train into Leeds on this late September morning, there was frost on the cars and foggy breath. A Premier Leagues final at Castleford Cricket Club to crown Yorkshire’s champion Premier League was the showpiece to look forward to. There was already a good crowd in at Savile Park, folding […]
Premier Leagues Preview: White Rose Trophy Semi-Finals
Change is in the air in this year’s White Rose Trophy; the end-of-season knockout competition to crown Yorkshire’s top Premier League club. After Woodlands of the Bradford Premier League have dominated for the past two years; the only club to win back-to-back titles, they are not in the picture in 2024. Instead, New Farnley have […]
Going for the title: State of play in Yorkshire’s leagues
My interview with Richmondshire Cricket Club who wrapped up the NYSD with plenty of time to spare got me thinking. What’s the situation in the top divisions elsewhere? I keep an eye out across Yorkshire’s cricket leagues but now we’re getting to the last few weeks, there are trophies there for the taking. So here […]