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 […]
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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 […]
Where does Yorkshire (and its club cricket) begin and end?
Geographically, where does Yorkshire (and its club cricket) begin and end? Plenty would say Saddleworth is still very much part of the Broad Acres, despite it being more than 50 years since this most scenic of upland districts, a West Riding outlier, was absorbed by the Greater Manchester behemoth. Yorkshire Ridings The Yorkshire Society sums […]
Enter your club for Cricket Yorkshire Teas of the Year
***This competition is now closed and judging will be announced in due course*** For years now, thanks to the support of Yorkshire Tea, we have championed club cricket teas in Yorkshire – and our awards are back for 2025! The winners of the previous competitions have been Pannal (2024), Stainland (2023) and Ripon (2022), while […]
Lofthouse and Middlesmoor: Sawdust and scenic Nidderdale
As Douglas Adams wrote in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy… “Stress and nervous tension are now serious social problems in all parts of the galaxy, and it is in order that this situation should not be in any way exacerbated, that the following facts now be revealed in advance.” It did in fact rain […]
Advice, support and funding for maintaining cricket grounds
In this feature with the Yorkshire Cricket Board (YCB), we’ll discuss the pressures on cricket grounds in Yorkshire, improving standards and some of the new support now available for clubs and teams from the YCB. If you read Cricket Yorkshire regularly, you’ll know that capacity of grounds is a theme I frequently discuss. It’s the […]
National Village Cup: Round 3 results, scores and top performers
Before Yorkshire villages can even contemplate September’s shimmering prize of a Lord’s final in the National Village Cup, they have to first negotiate their Regional Group. That picture is gradually becoming clear in the 2025 season and here are the latest scores, results and top performers from the late May Bank Holiday weekend. North Yorkshire […]