Sit back and enjoy reviews of cricket books, interviews with authors and updates on projects by Cricket Yorkshire.
Remarkable Village Cricket Grounds by Brian Levison is a treasure map that has sat on my office desk for months. I have flicked through and marvelled but now a new year demands an expedition or two. The eye-catching hardback with evocative, glossy photographs of cricket grounds, by David Major and Jill Mead and complemented by Brian’s background biographies, makes you… Read more →
I’m delighted that my Scarborough Cricket Festival book is now available to pre-order via Great Northern Books. It will be out in May 2019 but we’ve now opened up the opportunity to buy a limited-edition, hardback copy, if you’d like to treat yourself or gift a book. Pre-order now, and as well as a signed copy, your chosen name will… Read more →
Author David Mitchell conjures up an adapted chapter from his new cricket book, From Snicket to Wicket. Here, David reminisces of his childhood at Settle Cricket Club and the spectacle of the annual match against Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Cricket has been in my blood since Grandad took me to watch Yorkshire play Australia at Bradford in 1961. A significant… Read more →
I’m delighted to have been invited to speak at the Northern Cricket Society on Tuesday 3rd April and hope some Cricket Yorkshire readers will be able to make it along to say hello and talk cricket! I’ll be discussing my book, All Wickets Great & Small, about touring Yorkshire’s cricket clubs but I’m sure we’ll cover plenty more besides. Day:… Read more →
Paul Duffin is a remarkable man who has not let the fact that he is severely sight and hearing impaired quash his passion for cricket one little bit. When I heard about the deafblind Wetherby-based author who had written about his tales of travelling to thirteen Test grounds to follow England between 2003 and 2012, it was crying out for… Read more →
Who’s Who of The Yorkshire County Cricket Club sounds like it could be the most contentious book ever written. The only way to avoid controversy over who’s in and who’s out in a mammoth compilation of this kind is to include all 670 men who have represented the county. Yes, that’s all those who played for Yorkshire’s first eleven in… Read more →
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