There is nothing quite like delivering positive news on a Monday morning for kickstarting the week. Not so long ago, Cricket Yorkshire ran its first competition of 2017 – an absolute belter if I say so myself – in association with our website partner B3 Cricket – to win a custom-made cricket bat. This was […]
Club Cricket
Would you become a cricket umpire?
With friendly fixtures likely outdoors in Yorkshire from April leading into league action, every cricket umpire across the land is dusting off their white coats, rummaging for ball counters and reacquainting themselves with the finer points of Duckworth-Lewis-Stern. ** There have been the usual appeals crossing my @cricketyorks Twitter timeline from leagues promoting their cricket […]
Winning momentum at Wakefield Thornes
Are Wakefield Thornes Cricket Club currently the best cricket club in Yorkshire? Discuss… Ok, that’s mischevious but the West Yorkshire club, with four senior sides and six junior teams, are understandably upbeat after their first eleven beat Pudsey St Lawrence in the Abu Dhabi final last October to be crowned the inaugural Champion club of […]
When did you first play cricket?
The launch of the ‘All Stars’ programme in Yorkshire was at Elland Road on Sunday. This new nationwide ECB initiative is aimed at attracting tens of thousands of five to eight year-olds to play cricket and encouraging a groundswell of popularity and young fans. Time will tell whether this latest attempt to make cricket relevant to […]
Yorkshire cricket outdoors in January: St Chads Charity Cup
The fielder stationed at short third man wore a red woolly hat while the umpire live-scored the match from his tablet. Welcome to cricket outdoors in mid-January. This charity fixture, in aid of the Sue Ryder Wheatfields hospice, who provide end-of-life care for patients with any life-limiting illnesses including cancer, was held at St Chads […]
Cricket Yorkshire’s winter reading shortlist
The countdown to Christmas is well underway in the Cricket Yorkshire office. Caramel-infused mince pies have bitten the dust and thoughts turn to the choice of cricket reading out there to look forward to. Whether autobiographical journey, historical retrospective or light-hearted page-turner, the publishing houses have a raft of titles lined up to tempt you […]
The life of the Yorkshire Academy cricketer with Richard Damms
Richard Damms, Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s Academy & Development Coach, is juggling a phone interview with Cricket Yorkshire while doing the Christmas shopping in Barnsley. It’s an opportunity, as he circumnavigates the mayhem around Black Friday, to reflect on the Academy’s debut in the inaugural season of ECB Yorkshire Premier League North. The Academy is […]
Have cricket clubs recovered from last winter’s flooding?
There is nothing more likely to chill the blood of those involved at cricket clubs than the imminent threat of flooding. The devastation caused by the floods of 2015 is still being felt today. As Storm Angus battered the country this week with severe gales and heavy rain, there was the reminder that this could […]
Going in to bat for Yorkshire visually impaired cricket
What must it be like to play cricket if you’re visually impaired? It was a thought preoccupying me on the walk up to the Indoor Cricket Centre at Yorkshire County Cricket Club to watch a taster session run by Yorkshire VICC. I’ve written about VI cricket before with Cricket Yorkshire but it has been a […]
Arthington’s tradition of October cricket lives on
As if to prove that cricket is very much alive and kicking in this part of Yorkshire, as I got out of the car at Arthington Cricket Club last Sunday, a straight six thudded the ball into the grass behind me. It was a spectacular afternoon in this slice of Wharfedale, north of Leeds, proving […]