A short walk from the railway station over the bridge is Skipton Cricket Club whose firsts were at home to Illingworth.
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Yorkshire league cricket: thirteen cricket grounds in a day
A few weekends back, Brian from the Cricket Heritage blog, offered his set of wheels and a pottering journey around Yorkshire league cricket grounds North of Leeds. The opportunity to ditch the camera in favour of just a smartphone (photos below) and the bus and rail timetables is a real blessing. Not to mention the […]
How many people play recreational cricket in Yorkshire?
Ok, so that’s a rhetorical question….which will lead me ingeniously to the real, cunning motive behind this plea. You can do a lot in five minutes. Make a cuppa and raid the biscuit tin for good measure. Bowl an over (if the ball doesn’t get bunted into a hedgerow). Alternatively, cricket clubs across Yorkshire, yes, […]
Welcome to Glasshouses: village cricket at its best
Today’s adventure to the village of Glasshouses is a shunt north along the A59, dipping in and out of Nidderdale communities on the number 24 bus heading for Pateley Bridge. It’s pleasantly warm; sunshine peeks from behind candyfloss clouds to light up the Yorkshire countryside and the bus driver looks satisfyingly immaculate, sporting a red […]
The search for that all-conquering overseas cricketer
View image | gettyimages.com Picture the scene – it’s 1992 and Yorkshire County Cricket Club have finally decided to abandon their rule which allowed them to only select players born in Yorkshire. They were in the market for – whisper it quietly – an overseas player. “By ‘eck…’ow does thee go abart findin’ one o’t […]
Pitchero sponsors Cricket Yorkshire Awards
Picture this, if you will… Somewhere in a glitzy, Hollywood venue, sweaty Yorkshire batsmen, with grass stains covering their buttocks, pick mud from their spikes while waiting to hear if they’ve won summat. Umpires, sticklers for presentation, sit all present and correct, white coats ironed within an inch of their lives, clicking their counters and […]
Can less successful cricket clubs with no juniors thrive?
This is the first time I’ve written for Cricket Yorkshire, and all of sudden, I’m overcome with the urge to be honest… Maybe it’s pressure? Maybe it’s guilt? Here goes, my confession is… I’m not good at cricket and neither is my team. Does that make me a fraud or unwelcome? Does it mean my […]
Cricket volunteers get the nod at YCB Awards
The Yorkshire Cricket Board (YCB) have held their annual awards ceremony to recognise the outstanding contributions across Yorkshire recreational cricket. Reflecting the growing appreciation for volunteers and interest in the Outstanding Services to Cricket Awards (OSCAs), this year’s event moved from Stumps restaurant to Headingley Carnegie pavilion. With BBC Radio Leeds’ Dave Callaghan on the […]
Thirsk Cricket Club: Always at the races
Being entirely honest, arriving at Thirsk railway station on foot is to begin a bit of a soulless walk into town with the drone of traffic on your right only partially balanced by the titter of birdlife from the racecourse to your left. Thirsk itself is clearly the happening place to be, judging by the […]
Bradford Cricket League and CYCL aim to merge
Significant change is sweeping through amateur cricket across Yorkshire with a new pyramid structure being thrashed out in time for the 2016 season and beyond. The Bradford Cricket League is intended to be one of four ECB Premier League in the region but which leagues act as feeder leagues and who falls where in the […]