The England & Wales Cricket Board’s latest update about coronavirus, aimed at cricket clubs and leagues, outlined the latest thinking across a number of areas. Given Cricket Yorkshire’s audience includes a great number of players, coaches, clubs and leagues, here’s a summary for you: National Programmes All Stars and Dynamos Cricket remain suspended – further […]
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Coronavirus: Recreational cricket on pause
It’s official, we have hit the pause button on grassroots cricket. The ECB has issued a statement on the recreational game in light of the developing COVID-19 situation. They are recommending that all forms of recreational cricket are for now suspended. This extends to training, pre-season friendlies and any associated cricket activity. As you’d expect, […]
Competition: Win Opening Up Cricket Pack for your Club!
***COMPETITION HAS CLOSED*** For March 2020, Cricket Yorkshire has teamed up with Opening Up Cricket to bring you a brilliant competition prize. Does your cricket team or cricket club want to win a Club pack? We are offering five cricket clubs/teams a chance to win! It’s a way to show your support for the important […]
Indoor cricket nets: Six ways to train smarter
Whatever standard you play at, you can get the best out of indoor nets. At this time of year, the weird environment of stark lighting, sports hall terrain and matting for a pitch is a significant ritual, normally over several months, designed to ease out the kinks, oil the technique and grow confidence. If you’re […]
How can cricket clubs think differently about sponsorship?
Sponsorship continues to be an integral part of how cricket clubs, of all shapes and sizes, fund all that they do. You only have to scan social media to see that there are a variety of methods employed to try to persuade companies and brands to support the grassroots game. One such tactic caught my […]
200 not out: Back to the future for Otley Cricket Club
As Bill Marshall reports, Otley Cricket Club are going back to the future as part of their 200th-anniversary celebrations. The Pool Road club, formed in 1820, is holding a single-wicket competition this summer – an event involving all-rounders that was more prevalent in the 1950s and 1960s. Otley CC chairman Chris Smith said: “We are […]
