Casting my eye around the clubs on socials has highlighted how some Premier League cricket clubs are already busy in the transfer market. On the one hand, that signals intent, a squad can be built around early signings and members get to watch overseas over winter from the UK. Clubs will be crossing digits that […]
Autumn prep for cricket clubs: Toyota Corolla to Storm Amy
The 2025 outdoor cricket season might be done and dusted, with a few fixtures kicking about, but the planning never stops, does it?! Here’s a few jobs for cricket clubs – because you don’t have enough obviously 🤣 – that might spark some ideas or be helpful, at least that’s the plan… 🙏 Before I […]
Yorkshire Women & Girls League: The Hundred Finals
Gone are the heady days of the summer that almost guaranteed good weather and the innate certainty of cricket being played without interruption. Be it put down to climate change, an interglacial period, or even the Milankovitch cycle…we’ve been fortunate to have cricket almost every scheduled day, apart from one really wet Saturday when I […]
White Rose celebrate Quaid-e-Azam Premier League treble
White Rose Cricket Club of the Quaid-e-Azam Premier League have had an impressive season by securing three trophies. Their emphatic ‘treble’ includes the Premier Section of the Quaid-e-Azam Premier League which they won with a game to spare, having finished second to AK Eagles in 2024. It is the first time White Rose CC have […]
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 […]
100% British Recycled Plastic furniture for cricket clubs
In partnership with British Recycled Plastic, based in Mytholmroyd, we’re sharing different ways that cricket clubs can use their products to help with the ground and activities. 🪑 Benches / Picnic Tables Previously, we’ve showcased how clubs like Settle and York use memorial benches and outdoor durable seating / tables from 100% recycled plastic to […]
ENCO Halifax League T20 Finals: The good, bad and ugly
The drive to the Vocation Brewery T20 Finals Day took us up over the hills beyond Oxenhope, before those Calderdale hills open out. Historical landmarks like Winny Stone and Able Cross mark moments in the vastness of it all. The twisting, steep descent into Hebden Bridge needs patience, good brakes and better fortune. We had […]
Nidderdale League: North Stainley and Studley Royal swap fortunes
Joe Hudson reports from North Stainley with its quirky Nidderdale backdrop for the game with Division 3 opponents Studley Royal. *** North Stainley’s ground is remarkable. It doesn’t quite look real somehow, almost like a Hollywood movie set where the producers don’t quite understand the notion of village cricket, or one of those Chinese theme […]
North Leeds’ title push still on despite Pudsey setback
For those that haven’t been to Pudsey, wandering in past the Sir Leonard Hutton Memorial Gates you immediately see the modern extension to the pavilion, which contains a café/bar and patio area with tables outside. To your left is the large playing area with a superbly kept grass surface that extends down the slight incline […]
Wakefield Thornes lift K3 Dental Cup at Castleford
The K3 Dental Cup Final promised a bundle of opportunities from Premier League cricket involving two South Yorkshire rivals to an assured host in last year’s winners, Castleford. Back on trains more often this season, I’ve had my ‘adventures’ but the Leeds to Knottingley service from platform 17b was quiet, on time and I was […]