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Elsecar Cricket Club vs Barnsley Woolley Miners at Crab Field
I’ve started the 2022 cricket season in pretty good nick. For me, ‘good nick’ means, during the early weeks of the summer, when enthusiasm is sky-high, watching games at grounds that have spent too long on my ‘must-get-around-to-visiting’ list. Elsecar Cricket Club’s Crab Field (crab apple trees once grew along one side) falls into this […]
Why your cricket club needs FrogBox this year
Cricket Yorkshire is excited to partner with FrogBox, the cricket live-streaming solution offering professional broadcasting to any cricket club. Cricket clubs can now stream matches in real-time to YouTube, offer highlights clips on social media and promote sponsors to a global audience. FrogBox is the exclusive streaming platform to integrate with Play-Cricket Scorer and Play-Cricket […]
Yorkshire clubs at the forefront of hybrid cricket pitches
Hybrid cricket pitches are an exciting new opportunity for club cricket. In this partnership with SIS Pitches, we’ll look at what they are, the benefits and which clubs in Yorkshire are already using them. What is a hybrid cricket pitch? Hybrid grass is a blend of natural grass with artificial fibres. SIS achieve this by […]
Why cricket clubs should do their match fees online
Match fees can be more stressful for cricket clubs than they need to be. Late payments. Chasing the same culprits every week. Working out who’s paid. Cross-referencing bank statements for direct debits. Handling cash. Trips to the bank. Players need to remember to bring cash. Who has the right change? It’s not rocket science – […]
Stokesley topple Richmondshire in NYSD season opener
I’ve got a soft spot for the far corner of Yorkshire which, when I worked on Teesside during the 1990s, was dubbed ‘Cleveland’, an ancient name reinvigorated by the local authority. At the time, I lived at Great Ayton, a pleasant village where the future Captain James Cook went to school. Ayton was an ideal […]