For many of you cricketers, February signals a changing in the seasons just as surely as entering a different time zone: back to nets (BTN). Preparation for this ritual will depend on whether you spend winter oiling your cricket bat with affection or open your cricket bag, after months of fermentation, with a hazmat suit […]
Club cricket
Latest: Yorkshire’s Premier League Winter Transfers
Each year, Cricket Yorkshire does a transfer roundup ahead of the first ECB Premier League games in Yorkshire (normally mid-April). Well, given football has its transfer window, it felt like an apt time to offer a mid-winter transfer update across Yorkshire’s four ECB Premier leagues, in addition to the pre-season article in a few months […]
Don’t miss these Yorkshire cricket matches in 2018
If you’ve clicked through and are reading this, maybe you are someone for whom adventure knows no limits; an intrepid explorer who thirsts for left-field Yorkshire cricket suggestions. Well, as it happens, you’ve come to the right place. This is not about Pakistan Test match at Emerald Headingley, the Roses T20 or the ECB Premier […]
Climbing off the fence: Three club cricket predictions for 2018
A new year brings with it a sense of promise and purpose. A brew is constantly on the go here in the Cricket Yorkshire office so I’ve gazed mystically into the tea leaves to offer up some cricket predictions. A cricketer will be sent off in 2018 I’m a little surprised it’s not happened yet […]
Mark & Charlie’s Story: Opening Up Cricket
December 14th, 2012, is seared into the memory of Mark Boyns (left) who learnt his friend Alex Miller had taken his own life. Alex and Mark were close friends who played cricket together at Sefton Park Cricket Club in the Liverpool & District Cricket Competition. They also shared a common affliction: depression. As Mark describes […]
How cricket clubs can stay out of trouble on social media ?
Let me take you back to a dark Wednesday afternoon earlier in November. In the Cricket Yorkshire office, I am reading the Yorkshire Cricket Board’s disciplinary regulations for cricket leagues, updated in October 2017, line-by-line. Why? Well, I’ll be honest…there was a moment as the chocolate chip cookies dried up when I asked myself the […]
Albert Pagan: Tutoring Michael Gough and triggering Desmond Haynes
Albert Pagan, 88, well known in the North Yorkshire & South Durham Cricket League (NYSD) cricket circles, is reflecting on national umpiring recognition: “I’ve been very lucky to be selected to represent all of my colleagues. The effort they’ve put into setting standards in the North Yorkshire South Durham League…the players have done remarkably well […]
Jekyll and Hyde: Life as Nidderdale Cricket League Secretary
It comes to something when stalwarts as invested in recreational cricket as Graham Hyde decide to call it a day. We are less than a minute into a roving conversation about the health of Yorkshire club cricket and the outgoing Honorary Secretary of the Theakston Nidderdale Cricket League puffs out his cheeks. In relief or […]
Retiring from club cricket: Hanging up the bowling boots
I’ll be honest. I never thought this day would come. The decision to fold up the whites for the final time and decommission the knackered, muddy cricket spikes was neither impulsive nor thrust upon me. Yet, after 31 years of playing cricket, it is the right moment to flick off the bails and call time […]
Leeds Caribbean: Life in the Dales Council Cricket League
Rocking up at Leeds Caribbean Cricket Club for their last Dales Council match of 2017 was an exercise in crossing digits and glancing anxiously at the lashing rain pinging off the bonnet of the car. This Division A contest at Scott Hall Road against Bradford Moor looked doomed from the outset as cricketers and officials […]