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Yorkshire Tea Community Cricket Awards
Together with Yorkshire Tea, we launched the Yorkshire Tea Community Cricket Awards for 2025. These new monthly awards (five trophies in total from May to September) were our way to recognise the contributions from those right across Yorkshire recreational cricket. 🏆 Entries received Each month, nominations were invited for anyone involved in grassroots cricket in […]
Grassroots cricket is not dying – but it is changing
The Telegraph’s recent article by Chief Sports reporter Jeremy Wilson with the headline: ‘Grass-roots sports clubs are dying out’ has got me hot under the collar. I am particularly twitchy as it’s another national newspaper making depressing, sweeping statements about the state of recreational sport. The sub-heading states: ‘With life habits changing and the effects […]
Howden’s Ashes story: Pavilion in flames to future plans
As we await the next chapter of England’s Test cricket rollercoaster in Australia, it got me thinking about the Ashes in Yorkshire. Not at Headingley though, in Howden. The Ashes Playing Fields is a 15.5 acre park that’s located in the Georgian market town of Howden in East Yorkshire. I’ve walked its boundary a few […]
North Leeds Women’s 1st XI scale heights in breakout year
North Leeds Women’s 1st XI captain Jacky Fitzpatrick is reflecting on a landmark 2025 season where her squad won Division 1 of the West Yorkshire Women & Girls League. For good measure, they made the national final of the ECB Women’s T20 Plate competition. As opening questions go, I’m curious if the outfit based on […]
Jake Weatherald: From Barnsley to the Ashes
Jake Weatherald’s inclusion in Australia’s 15-player squad for the first Ashes Test did not go unnoticed in Barnsley. The 31-year-old could open the batting for his country but you may not know that he had two profitable summers in South Yorkshire for Barnsley Woolley Miners. I caught up with Phil Chapman, the club’s Cricket Development […]
Smashing it on Sundays: Women and girls cricket indoors
It takes a particular set of circumstances to get me out of bed any earlier than absolutely necessary on a Sunday morning while a sleepy fog is still swirling. The prospect of cricket in November will just about do it. Though I reckoned a 10am start was particularly keen for this women’s indoor league match […]
How Teamo conquers cricket club management admin
Teamo is a cricket club management solution (app and website) that helps volunteers get to grips with the realities of running a cricket club online. For those of you involved in the admin as a captain, coach or club committee member, it’s a lot to think about, right? You do it for the love of […]
Darfield reset: A warning shot for other clubs?
If I got a pound for every time someone told me “bang average” cricketers were expecting to be paid handsomely then, ironically, I could earn a fortune myself. Darfield Cricket Club of the Yorkshire Cricket Southern Premier League (YCSPL) are the latest club to assess their squad strength and future direction. Their first team have […]
Clock ticking at Kirkstall Educational with Yorkshire Water
Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club, of the Aire-Wharfe Cricket League, have fingers crossed that a current Yorkshire Water project finishes on time for the 2026 season. The water company is installing a new storage tank at Kirkstall’s ground so there is currently a cavernous hole in the outfield at the far end. According to a Yorkshire […]