Club cricket

A few weeks back, my Sunday was given over to Old Sharlston Cricket Club vs Great Preston in the opening round of the National Village Cup. The day began as days always should with a highly nutritious, low-calorie (very) premature lunch…a Greggs sausage roll on the concourse of Wakefield Westgate railway station. The friendliness of […]

Clifton Alliance Cricket Club had come up in conversation and been recommended a few times by those that know their cricket and it did not disappoint. Ostensibly visiting York Cricket Club for The Cricket Paper, a growing stomach and rumours of a ‘proper cricket tea’ meant wandering over to CACC’s refurbished clubhouse was a no-brainer. […]

York Cricket Club’s Clifton Park HQ would not be out of place on a nature reserve, its wooden panel frontage and shimmering glass aesthetic augmented by the expanse of balcony. There were no curlews or lapwings in attendance for this ECB Yorkshire Premier League North fixture on parade from the viewing platform but pockets of […]

Imagine you are a member of a gym and when renewal swings round, they ask for your cash, expect you to sign up again and yet don’t really express why you should. It might be the nudge you need or you might feel like they should have tried harder to keep your business and decide […]

For this asthmatic and somewhat unfit forty-something, the steep incline from Batley railway station that leads to Hanging Heaton Cricket Club’s Bennett Lane base almost defeated me. Nonetheless, cricket was in the offing and I arrived red-faced and pleased for the nippy wind that offset the promise of sunshine and a Bradford Premier League fixture […]

This is Cricket Yorkshire’s transfer news exclusive featuring all four ECB Premier leagues in Yorkshire. You won’t get this collated news anywhere else…if you get value out of the read, please share it on Twitter/Facebook using the buttons top or bottom of this page. Who has moved clubs? What are the teams across all of the leagues? Here’s […]

Sat on a sofa in Huddersfield’s Cafe Society a few streets from St. George’s Square, the prospect of watching the earliest league cricket in Yorkshire, if not the country, was the reason I was grinning like a buffoon. The theme to the Austin Powers film bounced off the walls (‘Soul Bossa Nova’ by Quincy Jones […]

As the current first-class fixture between Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Leeds Bradford MCCU draws to a close on Tuesday at Headingley, spare a thought for a player no longer with us. For those that knew him, 28 November 2012 will forever be etched in the memory when the talented cricketer Tom Hardman died, just shy […]

Picture the scene. It’s Saturday morning and the prospect of cricket puts a spring in your step. Your fixture at Upper Cragdale 3rd XI is looming and you gingerly prize open your dormant kitbag that reveals muddy, stale whites, several entirely new forms of bacteria and other treasures. Sound familiar? Ok, so some of you […]

Lisa on BBC Look North had promised sunshine and mild temperatures but as the Northern Rail bonerattler dragged its way indignantly to Burley Park station, the clouds were grizzling, moping and pouting. The briefest of pitstops on Cardigan Road at Slips Deli afforded the luxury of taking the weight off my scrawny pins, unaccustomed as […]