Club cricket

The 2016 Davidstow National Village Cup began on Sunday 1 May and as an assignment for The Cricketer Magazine (check out their June issue), I went along to an opening round fixture from Group 5 covering West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire & Humberside. It was Ben Brocklehurst, Managing Director of the Cricketer, who established a national […]

A cricket match that can be traced as far back as 1880 has once more been contested as part of the Ilkley Carnival on May Bank Holiday Monday. The history of this annual game between shopkeepers and tradesmen, whose teams wore black or white hats, came to light when I was researching a chapter of […]

Ok, so you’re familiar with Yorkshire CCC skippers Andrew Gale and Alex Lees but who’s the captain of Yorkshire Over 60s? Yes, you read right. Over 60s county cricket. Cricket has always been seen as a pastime that is kinder on the body into our latter years than say American football – but there are […]

The market town of Knaresborough was the end of the line for my train from Leeds and on this spring morning there could be few better places. It had been too long – a number of years – since visiting and I won’t be making that mistake again. Do go, if you get the chance. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Cricket agent Stewart Molyneux describes himself as a ‘straight talking Yorkshireman who doesn’t pull any punches.’

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 […]

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 […]