Picture this, if you will… Somewhere in a glitzy, Hollywood venue, sweaty Yorkshire batsmen, with grass stains covering their buttocks, pick mud from their spikes while waiting to hear if they’ve won summat. Umpires, sticklers for presentation, sit all present and correct, white coats ironed within an inch of their lives, clicking their counters and […]
Club Cricket
Can less successful cricket clubs with no juniors thrive?
This is the first time I’ve written for Cricket Yorkshire, and all of sudden, I’m overcome with the urge to be honest… Maybe it’s pressure? Maybe it’s guilt? Here goes, my confession is… I’m not good at cricket and neither is my team. Does that make me a fraud or unwelcome? Does it mean my […]
Cricket volunteers get the nod at YCB Awards
The Yorkshire Cricket Board (YCB) have held their annual awards ceremony to recognise the outstanding contributions across Yorkshire recreational cricket. Reflecting the growing appreciation for volunteers and interest in the Outstanding Services to Cricket Awards (OSCAs), this year’s event moved from Stumps restaurant to Headingley Carnegie pavilion. With BBC Radio Leeds’ Dave Callaghan on the […]
Cricket at Bolton Abbey: what’s not to like?
Of the 750 or so clubs across Yorkshire, many boast a charm of their own due to geography, history and often as not, the people who live and breath the game. The point of this particular Saturday afternoon was to go along and hear from those at a progressive club in the Theakston Nidderdale League […]
Halifax Cricket League: Queensbury vs Blackley
The 576 Halifax bus from Bradford wheezed and strained its way up Great Horton Road, up, up and away, further into the clouds until reaching the village of Queensbury. Deposited opposite Oxford Road, the last bit on foot takes the intrepid traveller up a quiet country lane to the highest (league) cricket ground in England, […]
Leeds Bradford MCCU scorch to Lord’s Final win
Leeds Bradford MCCU got their hands on some silverware at the third time of asking in an eventful season with a convincing victory over Cardiff at Lords. The squad lost out in two semi-finals in June in other formats but this 117-run triumph at the home of cricket (after Scarborough, obviously) will go some way […]
How does club cricket combat geography?
As size of counties go, Yorkshire is vast. If Google is to be believed, it runs to 11,903 metres squared – and they have scanned everywhere with their StreetView project so they ought to know. A Yorkshire population of 5.3 million equates to that of Scotland and a land mass over half the size of […]
Leeds Bradford MCCU’s T20 triumph at Weetwood
After being given a ‘bye’ because their morning opponents Newcastle University had been unable to field a team, Leeds Bradford MCCU took on Durham MCCU at Weetwood in the afternoon sunshine for a place at the MCC / Red Bull T20 Finals Day on Monday 15th June. The winners of that mid-June extravaganza in Oxford […]
Bradford Park Avenue cricket
Do you remember that weirdly warm few weeks in April when summer briefly gatecrashed spring and the mercury soared? During that balmy period, there was the chance to go and watch a cricket match at Bradford Park Avenue where two teams from the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League, Interlink and Omar, were shaking off winter […]
Aire Wharfe Cricket: Olicanian vs Calverley
After a stint covering the action at Ilkley Cricket Club on Saturday, the proximity of more cricket was too tempting to pass up so it was on to Olicanian Cricket Club whose firsts were at home and taking on Calverley St Wilifrid’s CC. From Ilkley’s ground, you scooch down Denton Road, passing Ilkley Lido on […]