Cricket Photo of the YearWINNER – Mike BritlandHIGHLY COMMENDED – Nick Corley Cricket photography for grassroots cricket is pretty niche but essential. I know of many of the snappers across Yorkshire – because there aren’t that many. Cricket clubs might do their own with a player or club official or they might be lucky enough […]
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The Cricket Yorkshire Awards: Best Use of Social Media
Best Use of Social Media WINNER – Cricket Arena HIGHLY COMMENDED – Illingworth St Mary’s HIGHLY COMMENDED – Bradford Mutual Sunday School Cricket League This category was probably the hardest to judge as a number of entries excelled, despite using different social media channels and approaches. It’s not really about the numbers although they can […]
The Cricket Yorkshire Awards: Best Cricket Website (League)
Best Cricket Website (League) WINNER – Bradford Mutual Sunday School Cricket League The Bradford Mutual Sunday School Cricket League website had something of an overhaul in 2022. By adding more sections and content, it certainly acts as a one-stop shop for clubs, members, players and officials. New features included a club directory page, past winners […]
The Cricket Yorkshire Awards: Best Cricket Website (Club)
Best Cricket Website (Club)WINNER – St Chad’s Broomfield Cricket Club The eagle-eyed amongst you will notice that I’ve split out the original category to reflect clubs and leagues. Given the number of entries and different remits, it felt like the right thing to do. Congratulations to St Chad’s Broomfield Cricket Club who use Pitchero and […]
How on earth do leagues find more umpires for next season?
NEWSPAPERS, who tend to have skeleton staffs these days due to drastically reduced income from just about all of their traditional financial streams (about the only growth area these days is from the internet), have taken to re-printing pages from days gone by. Some would say that was a benefit to older readers, despite the […]
Yorkshire Disability Cricket: End of Season Review for 2022
When we last updated Cricket Yorkshire readers in May, we were looking forward to playing our County League programme and hopeful of a good season. Here is our end-of-season catch-up… Our Super 9s, softball team, playing in the Northern Region competition had an outstanding season, achieving their first Regional League winners and play-off trophies, being […]
Money-saving tips for cricket clubs and members in 2023
After an action-packed cricket season, there is an opportunity to pause, take a breath, reflect and plan. If you’re involved with helping to run a cricket club then that may well involve goal-setting for 2022. Amid the end-of-season awards and league dinners, thoughts inevitably turn to the financial: how are we going to afford that? […]
St Chad’s Broomfield Cricket Club: New Beginnings
One of Cricket Yorkshire’s most popular articles this year was on switching cricket leagues. Its inspiration was my local club, Bingley Congs, who have swapped the Craven Cricket League for the Aire-Wharfe Cricket League. What I didn’t know was that a club was voted out of the league to make space; namely St Chad’s Broomfield […]
Brsk offers 50% off full-fibre broadband for a year
Cricket Yorkshire has partnered with brsk, a broadband provider with a growing reputation, to promote their services (to areas with a Bradford postcode) with an incredible deal. Read on to learn more about who brsk are and how they can deliver superfast, reliable, affordable broadband. It is a collaboration that began because an engineer was […]
Andy’s story: Playing visually impaired cricket for Yorkshire
Visually impaired cricketer Andy Fisher remembers the moment his eyesight changed. ‘I woke up with my eyesight all massively blurry. I went for tests and they thought it could be a brain tumour or a stroke.’ Andy was 35 at the time he was diagnosed with the extremely rare genetic condition called Leber Hereditary Optic […]