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 […]
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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. […]
Indoor Cricket: Six-a-side mayhem with Woodlands vs Orrell Red Triangle
On an assignment for The Cricket Paper – ahem, article due out this Friday, buy a copy for my forthright ramblings – it was time to head for indoor cricket to watch the The ECB Indoor National Club Championship. This was a full-throttle, pocket of cricket with different rules than I was used to: blink and […]
Introducing the 12th Man: a charity Yorkshire Ale
Head Brewer and Brewery Manager Ryan Truswell sounds right at home as we discuss two of his passions in life – Yorkshire ale and cricket – in an interview that nonetheless has a deadly serious twist. The Old Mill Brewery, in the East Yorkshire town of Snaith, have created a charity beer called ‘12th Man’ […]
ECB Small Grant Scheme: How cricket clubs can benefit
(Update June 2020: The ECB has reconfigured its funding for cricket clubs due to Covid-19 so visit their funding page to see the latest). As we welcome February, cricket nets will be underway and everyone is building towards the new cricket season. For cricket clubs, 2018 represents a fresh opportunity to change their circumstances for […]
It’s all change in East Yorkshire cricket for 2018
Joe Ashdown must have been a juggler in a former life; the Yorkshire Cricket Board’s Cricket Development Manager for East Yorkshire is also Yorkshire Lead for AllStars Cricket & manages Women & Girls Cricket in the county and coaches Yorkshire Womens 2nd XI. Any given week for Joe is diverse; he might be meeting with […]