The Barnsley Cricket League is enjoying its 125th anniversary in 2018 and so what better time to promote South Yorkshire Sunday league cricket as the Quasquicentennial party kicks off. No, I’m not that clever and yes, I did just google the Latin description for 125 year-landmark! We have all seen historic cricket leagues in Yorkshire merge […]
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Author Talk about All Wickets Great & Small
I’m delighted to have been invited to speak at the Northern Cricket Society on Tuesday 3rd April and hope some Cricket Yorkshire readers will be able to make it along to say hello and talk cricket! I’ll be discussing my book, All Wickets Great & Small, about touring Yorkshire’s cricket clubs but I’m sure we’ll […]
BME Development Centres give kids a chance at cricket
With funding from the Yorkshire Cricket Board (YCB), there is a programme in place to deliver cricket to those who’ve never tried it, in areas with large BME (black and minority ethnic) populations through development centres. The YCB cover the cost of venues and coaches (these are local to each community) and the 10 development […]
Cricket scoring is set for a revamp across club cricket
It would be an understatement to note that Steve Ward (right) knows a thing or two about cricket scoring. As Regional Scorers Officer (North) for the ECB ACO (Association of Cricket Officials), his role has been to teach and update cricket scorers across the region as technology and the laws change. Ahead of the 2018 […]
Men in white coats: Life as an ECB Premier League cricket umpire
Club cricket has its fair share of those like Jonathan Corcoran who live for their cricket and wear many hats. Secretary at Knaresborough Cricket Club, Yorkshire U15 Development Team Manager, cricket umpire in Yorkshire’s ECB Premier Leagues plus the York Senior League and an ECB tutor teaching and encouraging umpires. Still, Jonathan found time to catch […]
How Allerton Cricket Club was saved by generosity
Allerton Cricket Club has won a dramatic reprieve in the Bradford Mutual Sunday School League and it’s all thanks to the generosity of another club, Salem Athletic. This is extraordinary because a cricket club’s future was at stake and the wheels were in motion for it to fold but instead, it is back from the […]
VIDEO: Six points on Saturday – Pudsey St Lawrence (1986)
It is 1986. The Pudsey St Lawrence players stroll out onto the field with proper cable-knit jumpers, impressive moustaches as well as bouffant hairdos that look like they could stand up to the rigours of Yorkshire’s weather. As the Yorkshire Television commentary states as a matter of fact: “Every emotion on display at county level […]
Coach Paul Shaw on developing the art of captaincy and leadership
Former England Women’s Coach Paul Shaw is talking about cricket captaincy and leadership on a tinny line from his car after a few hectic days holding workshops for the ECB and the Premier League. Paul will be touring Yorkshire during March to deliver a series of regional seminars that are aimed at coaches and captains […]
Snow stopped play: Photos from Yorkshire cricket
We do like to revel in our weather here in the UK, don’t we? Snowmageddon has come to Yorkshire cricket. News of the ‘Beast from the East’ weather front sweeping in, as it had been cheerily coined, made it sound like an ominous character from Game of Thrones. When Monday came, snowflakes fluttered to their […]
Hunslet Nelson’s artificial pitch ordeal makes the case for club insurance
Last July, volunteers from Hunslet Nelson Cricket Club discovered a case of vandalism that really needed to be seen to be believed. Carol, the club’s Welfare Officer, arrived for a junior match to learn that a 12ft portion of the artificial pitch at their Gipsy Lane ground in Beeston had been ripped up and stolen. […]