On a roasting August afternoon in the centre of Bradford, I discovered what community means at a cricket club. Mrs Cricket Yorkshire and I had been invited to Interlink Cricket Club who play at Bradford Park Avenue. They had a home game against Cookridge in the Dales Council Cricket League. I first visited Interlink on […]
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Record-breaker: Meet the Bradford League lead run-scorer of all-time
Richard Gould is now the Bradford League’s all-time top run-scorer after nudging past Richard Robinson’s tally of 17,476 runs. Batting for over 25 years of Bradford League cricket (that’s 500+ matches), Gould has played for Salts, Farsley, East Bierley, Gomersal, Keighley and now Northowram Fields. His cricket journey started as an eight-year-old at Thackley Cricket […]
Village Cup: Yorkshire’s regional finalists confirmed
Yorkshire’s regional finalists of the Voneus National Village Cup are confirmed as Frickley Colliery, Addingham and Folkton & Flixton. Round 5 of the competition is on 23 June with the start of the national rounds. Frickley Colliery defeated Streethouse by 7 runs to win West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire & Humberside – Group 5. Their reward […]
Sue Mulholland and the therapy of cricket teas
The extraordinary story of Sue Mulholland blends the human spirit with the therapeutic power of baking and cricket teas. I met Sue, who has been making the cricket teas at Darlington Cricket Club for years, back in 2016 at Headingley. She had prepared a lavish spread for the Premier League Championship Semi-Final and it was […]
Gammon and game on at award-winning Ripon
Not even a rare soggy Saturday could dampen the enthusiasm at sampling Ripon Cricket Club’s award-winning cricket teas. Having won the Cricket Yorkshire Cricket Tea of the Year 2022 the previous week, our visit to Ripon to deliver Bettys vouchers from our competition sponsor Yorkshire Tea was one filled with laughter, delicious food and a […]
Rain or Shine: Pudsey St. Lawrence Women and St. Chad’s double header
I’d put a call out on social media a couple of weeks ago to find out what women’s games were on that week, as the weather had been poor and quite a few weekend fixtures were in real doubt. About a week later, Paul Priestley popped a reply up about a double fixture between Pudsey […]
Bradford Premier League: Wrenthorpe win the Battle of Adwalton
Visiting cricket grounds and sites of famous battles. Would that combo work for you? I gave it a shot last week: Saxton Cricket Club (Foss Evening League, Division Four) and the Battle of Towton (1461); Northallerton Town Cricket Club (North Yorkshire & South Durham Premier League, Collingwood Hundred, Round One) and the Battle of the […]
Flying bats and the going away ball at Hampsthwaite
Saturday arrived and I had planned the relative short trip to Hampsthwaite Cricket Club, situated in a small village a stone’s throw from Killinghall, with both villages on the north side of Harrogate. The blue sky was showing in patches, threatening nice weather, but it was also a bit on the colder side for June […]
Hutchinson fireworks light up Thornton’s title defence
When it came to choosing Saturday’s fixture, several components slotted into place like Tetris. I figured my first ENCO Halifax Cricket League game this season was overdue. (Subsequent apologies to Stainland, I have a memory like a sieve). The prospect of Thornton 1st XI, last year’s treble-winning Premier Division champions and currently in second, up […]
Quaid-e-Azam Cricket League: Haris Khan’s 297 for Salem Athletic
On Sunday 2 June in the Quaid-e-Azam Cricket League Premiership, there was an extraordinary club cricket match. Salem Athletic won the toss and opted to have a bat in their 40-over match against Panyam. Opener Haris Khan blasted 297 off 113 balls at the top of the order as Panyam tried seven bowlers in a […]