The stitches that ran like a wobbly railway track from ear to ear have been removed but for Lightcliffe Cricket Club’s Alex Tait, recovery from a horrific accident is a day at a time. Monday 13th February 2017 was when life changed forever; while bowling at an indoor nets session, Alex was hit in the face […]
Club cricket
Would you become a cricket umpire?
With friendly fixtures likely outdoors in Yorkshire from April leading into league action, every cricket umpire across the land is dusting off their white coats, rummaging for ball counters and reacquainting themselves with the finer points of Duckworth-Lewis-Stern. ** There have been the usual appeals crossing my @cricketyorks Twitter timeline from leagues promoting their cricket […]
Winning momentum at Wakefield Thornes
Are Wakefield Thornes Cricket Club currently the best cricket club in Yorkshire? Discuss… Ok, that’s mischevious but the West Yorkshire club, with four senior sides and six junior teams, are understandably upbeat after their first eleven beat Pudsey St Lawrence in the Abu Dhabi final last October to be crowned the inaugural Champion club of […]
Why Yorkshire Cricket affiliation makes sense
Club affiliation through league cricket Give or take, (whether they know it or not) 95% of cricket clubs do actually affiliate to the Yorkshire Cricket Board via the leagues as part of their annual league fees. A mention too for the Yorkshire Cricket Board’s Derek Shuttleworth who is in his mid-eighties and has been their […]
When did you first play cricket?
The launch of the ‘All Stars’ programme in Yorkshire was at Elland Road on Sunday. This new nationwide ECB initiative is aimed at attracting tens of thousands of five to eight year-olds to play cricket and encouraging a groundswell of popularity and young fans. Time will tell whether this latest attempt to make cricket relevant to […]
How #cricketfamily grew from a cricket friendship
Editor’s note: This is a refreshed article – with updated content for 2017 but based on a past version that audiences won’t have read on this current website. This is a remarkable story about how the digital landscape of Twitter has provided cricket clubs across the UK with the means to help each other. For those of […]
Hodgy: watercolour-painting, ukulele-playing Yorkshire groundsman
The phone chimes up just at the moment that I am making a conscious effort to burn dinner. It’s groundsman David Hodgson – universally known in cricketing circles as ‘Hodgy’ – who has returned my call around an interview after a day at a turf management exhibition in Harrogate. Discarding carbon-infused chicken in favour of […]
Yorkshire cricket outdoors in January: St Chads Charity Cup
The fielder stationed at short third man wore a red woolly hat while the umpire live-scored the match from his tablet. Welcome to cricket outdoors in mid-January. This charity fixture, in aid of the Sue Ryder Wheatfields hospice, who provide end-of-life care for patients with any life-limiting illnesses including cancer, was held at St Chads […]
Cricket Yorkshire’s winter reading shortlist
The countdown to Christmas is well underway in the Cricket Yorkshire office. Caramel-infused mince pies have bitten the dust and thoughts turn to the choice of cricket reading out there to look forward to. Whether autobiographical journey, historical retrospective or light-hearted page-turner, the publishing houses have a raft of titles lined up to tempt you […]
The life of the Yorkshire Academy cricketer with Richard Damms
Richard Damms, Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s Academy & Development Coach, is juggling a phone interview with Cricket Yorkshire while doing the Christmas shopping in Barnsley. It’s an opportunity, as he circumnavigates the mayhem around Black Friday, to reflect on the Academy’s debut in the inaugural season of ECB Yorkshire Premier League North. The Academy is […]