Club 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 […]

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 […]

It was a productive Saturday of club cricket with the sun out although a fierce wind that could strip the warmth from bone marrow in seconds made it a three-jumper strategy out on the cricket fields around Ilkley. Cricket Yorkshire was there, alternating between a barrage of images with the DSLR camera and then driven […]

At the start of England’s visit to the Windies, after all the talk of KP and the relative merits of West Indies’ strength, there was some actual live cricket online action to comment on. Going back a couple of weeks, it piqued the interest that the opening match of the tour against St Kitts & […]

Cheteshwar Arvind Pujara is here. Well, not here in the Cricket Office office, that really would be a scoop. No, he’s arrived at Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Friday morning saw the sun shine at Headingley and he was into the nets to shake off the jetlag. As an Indian coming to Yorkshire to play […]

As it happens, the early part of April, in Yorkshire at least, has been unseasonably and almost freakishly warm and sunny. Too much more of this and we’re likely to get a bit stir crazy. It’s meant to be cold in April in Yorkshire. The early games of the cricket season are meant to chew […]

My life would now be dramatically different, had I not began life as a cricket coach in a royal London Park, supervising 5-9 year olds as a university summer job. I might never have met my wife (the ultimate inspiration for Cricket Yorkshire), whose cousin I first befriended whilst safeguarding pint-sized minions as they rocketed […]

It’s at this time of year when winter has got her fingers wrapped around us that cricket has never felt further away. Foggy breath and a pickaxe to de-ice the car in the morning while your cricket bag is gathering dust wherever you put it since that last September fixture. Well, here’s the thing. Why […]

It takes a particular brand of moron to repeatedly vandalise a cricket club, over and over, mindlessly seeking to destroy the hard work put in by volunteers and the local community.

The Yorkshire Cricket Board’s Outstanding Services to Cricket Awards, known as OSCAs, was held on Thursday 7th August when Yorkshire cricket honoured the achievements and service given by a range of volunteers within recreational cricket across the county.