Welcome to Cricket Yorkshire’s very own player transfer hub covering the four ECB leagues in Yorkshire. It may interest many of you to find out who has moved clubs, and to what club, on the eve of the weekend where most cricket leagues across Yorkshire are meant to formally kick off their summer – though […]
Club cricket
Meet the cricket groundsman at Bradford Park Avenue
Nasa Hussain, cricket groundsman at Bradford Park Avenue, picks me up outside Bradford Forster Square railway station in a white van that’s part of a scheme to collect household cooking oil. As we weave our way through the morning city traffic, I glance round the interior which hints at a multitude of projects. A tennis […]
Moin Ashraf: Fresh start with Leeds Bradford MCCU
When fast bowler Moin Ashraf was released by Yorkshire County Cricket Club in September 2015, it could have been an abrupt end to a promising career. The Bradford-born seamer had been with the county since the age of 15 but after forging a prominent part in Yorkshire’s T20 campaign in 2012, he’d not played first-team […]
Meet the agent clinching the deals in club cricket
Cricket agent Stewart Molyneux describes himself as a ‘straight talking Yorkshireman who doesn’t pull any punches.’
Can public cricket events thrive out of season?
On Sunday, with the help of caffeine and Mrs Cricket Yorkshire, I got myself on a Leeds train at an ungodly hour down to London King’s Cross to attend the All Out Cricket Live event at Lord’s. Having written for All Out Cricket Magazine, it was a chance to meet their team and find out […]
Cricket umpires: Showing bad behaviour the red card
What do we all think of the news that Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) are to trial a series of measures from 2017, aimed at stamping out bad behaviour in cricket? MCC Universities (such as Leeds Bradford MCCU based at Weetwood), leagues and clubs will be invited to get involved this summer, to offer crucial feedback […]
On the up at Rodley Cricket Club
Gary Lewsley reflects on the difficult journey his club, Rodley CC, has trodden from sensationally quitting one league and having to bolster facilities to join another.
Is Clayton West Cricket Club on borrowed time?
Typical challenges facing cricket clubs can be anything from scraping enough funds together to replace a mower to sourcing a wicketkeeper on the morning of a game. The number of cricket clubs has been steadily declined in Yorkshire for years and the reasons for that will vary but not being able to get enough willing […]
How to get the best out of cricket nets
Unless you’ve been hurling yourself around a sports hall playing indoor cricket this winter, cricket nets will be when club cricketers ease their Christmas turkey-enhanced bodies back to fitness and form in time for (or during) the 2016 season. Here’s a shortlist of tips and tricks to make sure all cricketers and clubs get the […]
Meet the Yorkshire cricketer still playing in his eighties
What will you be doing when you’re eighty years old? Batting for your village cricket team still? Yeah. Thought not, me neither, although Mrs Cricket Yorkshire begs to differ. Well, thanks to a wonderful cricket documentary by TV Producer Chris Hay, the world can get to hear about Yorkshire cricketer Geoff Deighton, who is still […]