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Craven Cricket League

Craven Cricket League interviews of clubs, players, umpires and officials.

Craven Cricket League: Time to shake things up?

October 5, 2021 by Bill Marshall Leave a Comment

Airedale cricket sign

Bill Marshall talks to Craven League secretary, Peter Foster, about the challenge of losing clubs and the committee’s plans to give the league a new lease of life. Just how does a grassroots cricket league stop the haemorrhaging of clubs from within their membership?  Of course, some leagues react too late to the bleeding, while […]

Filed Under: Bill Marshall, Club cricket, Craven Cricket League, Cricket leagues, T20

Craven Cricket League faces umpiring crisis

March 7, 2021 by Cricket Yorkshire 3 Comments

cricket umpires hut

With around six weeks to go until they hope to start the season, the Mewies Solicitors Craven League, which covers a large area from Bradford to East Lancashire, are facing an umpiring crisis. On Cricket Yorkshire, we’ll be looking at all aspect of recreational cricket, including how clubs and leagues encourage more umpires to start […]

Filed Under: Club cricket, Craven Cricket League

Can a cricket club survive just on cricket anymore?

September 7, 2020 by Cricket Yorkshire 7 Comments

Bill Marshall asks: can a cricket club survive these days merely by being a cricket club? Probably not, which is why Craven Cricket League club Hepworth & Idle have started and are continuing to spread their wings in different directions. They realise that to stand still is to go backwards and want to become an […]

Filed Under: Club cricket, Craven Cricket League

Craven Cricket League: Karahi and hawk-eyed umpiring

July 30, 2020 by John Fuller Leave a Comment

This Craven Cricket League Covid Group B match saw Bingley Congs 1st XI welcome Cowling to Beckfoot Lane. Cowling might be a village on the A6068 towards that hazy Bermuda Triangle where Yorkshire meets Lancashire but I noticed their shirt sponsor was definitely White Rose; Azeems of Keighley do a mean chicken karahi. I arrived […]

Filed Under: Club cricket, Craven Cricket League

What could a Yorkshire League Knockout Cup look like for 2020?

July 30, 2019 by Cricket Yorkshire 9 Comments

Woodhouse Grange & Doncaster Town

Each summer, writer and photographer Andrew Gallon explores the length and breadth of Yorkshire cricket and further afield. Having visited hundreds of clubs across the region over the years, he knows his Hanging Heaton from his Holmfirth and Townville from Tickhill. I asked Andrew to ponder the art of the possible around a Yorkshire League […]

Filed Under: Aire Wharfe Cricket League, Bradford Cricket League, Club cricket, Craven Cricket League, Halifax Cricket League, Huddersfield Cricket League

Airedale Cricket Club deliver views and showstopper cakes

July 25, 2019 by John Fuller 2 Comments

Airedale cricket sign

Sometimes the best cricket experiences are the ones that catch you by surprise. I went along to Airedale Cricket Club, outside Keighley, a month back ostensibly to just watch.  It’s inevitable as a cricket writer that you look for stories everywhere. I can find it difficult to just take in a game without any obligation […]

Filed Under: Club cricket, Craven Cricket League Tagged With: airedale cricket club, craven cricket league

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