Have a read of our 2025 cricket helmets guide because choosing the best cricket helmet for your game and budget takes time and effort. Here at Cricket Yorkshire, we thought we’d do the research to give you trusted advice, as well as links to buy. 👍 Links will direct you to our website partner Pro:Direct Cricket. […]
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Best Cricket Bats: Cricketers Guide [2025]
Need the best cricket bat in 2025 for your budget? Want the latest ranges from New Balance cricket bats, GM bats or Gray-Nicolls? Good news! Our Cricket Bat Guide will give you advice and links while we are teaming up with Bear Cricket for 2025. This stellar Yorkshire company sell Grade 1 English willow bats […]
Relocated pavilion and home baking at Wath & Melmerby
A visit to Wath & Melmerby Cricket Club, North of the city of Ripon, promised a potential deluge, the prospect of a fine cricket tea and the story of a remarkable ground. Despite various weather apps predicting degrees of dismal rain, the journey over was no hardship scooting around Otley, Knaresborough and onto the A1(M) […]
Softball Cricket Festival at Bilton: Joyous and competitive
The end of the week hadn’t promised too much – as the weather looked decidedly dodgy. Those wonderful people at the Met Office had predicted thunder and lightning, hail and storms, and in our small part of the world…enough rain to shake more than a few sticks at! I’d somehow managed to dodge most of […]
Podcast: Starbeck All Stars, Crossflatts women’s cricket, Sheffield tapeball success
Welcome to a new edition of the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast where we begin with a recap of what’s on cricketyorkshire.com from cricket teas competition to Yorkshire Tea Community Cricket Awards. In the episode, there are interviews with Starbeck Cricket Club by Mark / Caught Light Photography about their All Stars junior cricket launch while Mark also chats […]
These are the weather apps you recommend for cricket
Discussing the weather might be a British obsession but it’s vital when it comes to cricket. Whether you’re prepping a cricket square, playing in a team, running a coaching session or going to watch a game, it pays to be prepared. I reached out to Cricket Yorkshire readers to get a snapshot of the weather […]
Enter our Yorkshire Tea Community Cricket Awards
Together with Yorkshire Tea, we’re excited to launch the Yorkshire Tea Community Cricket Awards for 2025. These new monthly awards (five trophies in total from May to September) will be our way to recognise the contributions from those right across Yorkshire recreational cricket. 🏆 How to enter Each month, nominations will be invited for anyone […]
Little Ribston Cricket Club in the land of glaciers and Knights
Mark Doherty heads to Little Ribston Cricket Club where their 1st XI hosted Knaresborough Forest CC 3rd XI in this Theakston Nidderdale League Division Seven fixture. It’s a Bit Chilly – Not! If I had found myself standing where I was at 1pm on Saturday 31st May…maybe 20,000 years ago…Little Ribston’s ground would potentially have been […]
Danby Cricket Club march on in Langbaurgh League
Joe Hudson reports on a low-scoring tussle from Danby Cricket Club in the North York Moors. As any good village cricketer knows, sometimes Lady Luck can smile down on you, other times she can be looking entirely in the other direction. Danby Cricket Club, sitting above the River Esk on a neat slice of the […]
Bishopthorpe Cricket Club: Crunch point to Clubmark
Bishopthorpe Cricket Club have an impressive story to tell. The village’s cricket team went from nearly folding to enjoying a stunning comeback with more players, sponsors and volunteers. Like many, the cricket club’s ground, outside York, is not owned by themselves but in this case by the Church of England. Bishopthorpe is where the Archbishop […]