In the summer of 2022, I seem to have gravitated to village cricket grounds. From the green slab of St Ives at Harden to whitewashed walls and a stellar tea at Bradshaw, there’s been some real gems. Not to mention Beckwithshaw Cricket Club outside Harrogate and Luddenden Foot up in the heavens above Mytholmroyd. All […]
Cricket Books
Best cricket books to get you in the mood for the season
What are the best cricket books on Amazon? Ok, by ‘best’ I actually mean best-selling and this is a snapshot that changes by the hour. As we all look for lockdown entertainment, I thought I’d do some reviews in the coming months and flag up what’s available from cricket books to cricket training on the […]
Incredible, unseen letters of Brian Close: Just a Few Lines
Just a Few Lines is the remarkable story of the unseen letters and memorabilia of Yorkshire & England batsman Dennis Brian Close CBE. It is a cricket book that will grab the interest of anyone who wants to be introduced to a treasure trove directly from the pen of this famous son of Rawdon. You’ll […]
Honorary Tyke: When Sachin Tendulkar came to Yorkshire
Thomas Blow, who writes for The Cricketer magazine, speaks to Cricket Yorkshire about his new book: The Honorary Tyke. *** I am delighted to announce my debut book, The Honorary Tyke, is now available to purchase. The book is an exhaustive account of Sachin Tendulkar’s summer at Yorkshire CCC, remembering a defining moment in the […]
Yorkshire CCC Yearbook: White Rose on every page
Cricket is coming. After the long hiatus that followed the end of the 2018 county cricket season, it’s not long before Yorkshire County Cricket Club begin at Weetwood against Leeds Bradford MCCU. For those of us who pine for the return of domestic cricket, there are staging posts along the way. Fixtures out? Tick. New […]
What’s in Last of the Summer Wickets: Tales from the Scarborough Cricket Festival?
I’m delighted that my Scarborough Cricket Festival book called Last of the Summer Wickets is available in paperback, published by Great Northern Books. The Scarborough Cricket Festival has made for a compelling subject. We are firmly in an age where T20 dominates the cricket agenda and yet there is an enormously popular cricket tradition that […]
Foreward to Scarborough with Sir Michael Parkinson
I am delighted to share the news that Sir Michael Parkinson has written the foreword to my new book on the Scarborough Cricket Festival, that’s out in June. It’s a privilege to have a broadcaster, journalist and author of Michael’s standing associated with my second cricket book and particularly apt, given there was the Michael […]
Dandelion and Burdock and Don: When Yorkshire played at Settle Cricket Club
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 […]
Author Talk about All Wickets Great & Small
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 […]
Meet the deafblind cricket author who’s followed England around the world
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, […]