Club cricket

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

What began as a trip to see taxi drivers play an informal game in Bradford transformed itself into something else entirely. From Forster Square, the walk up to Karmand Cricket Club on Barkerend Road was comfortably longer than anticipated and all uphill for this unfit cricket journalist. The steep climb takes you past Bradford Cathedral […]

In 2015, John Fuller talked with club cricketers in Yorkshire about the challenges and rewards of Ramadan. The month of Ramadan represents the holiest month in the year for Muslims around the world and for those that play cricket, it can offer both challenges and a positive impact on their game. In the Islamic calendar, […]

This being the age of social media, cricket clubs have the tools like never before to attract membership and keep everyone informed online as to how they’re doing. But there is a significant problem to this land of opportunity and that is a lack of any-speed, let alone superfast broadband across the UK. When was […]

As size of counties go, Yorkshire is vast. If Google is to be believed, it runs to 11,903 metres squared – and they have scanned everywhere with their StreetView project so they ought to know. A Yorkshire population of 5.3 million equates to that of Scotland and a land mass over half the size of […]

It’s at this time of year when winter has got her fingers wrapped around us that cricket has never felt further away. Foggy breath and a pickaxe to de-ice the car in the morning while your cricket bag is gathering dust wherever you put it since that last September fixture. Well, here’s the thing. Why […]

You always remember your first time. For me, it was a slate-grey afternoon in the Heathrow flight path. The ball was doing a bit – which without wanting to get over-familiar – is as pre-emptive a sentence as you’re ever likely to read.