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 […]
Cricket Books
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, […]
Who’s Who of The Yorkshire County Cricket Club
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 […]
Scarborough Cricket Festival: Have you any tales for my new book?
The Scarborough Cricket Festival is an integral part of the cricketing calendar here in Yorkshire. Did you know that county cricket on the North Yorkshire coast has been an annual treat since 1876 when MCC played Yorkshire in a nine-day programme? From the very first time of taking the train over and stepping out into […]
Following On: Like Father, like Son?
James Buttler’s latest book, Following On – In the Footsteps of Cricketing Fathers, delves into the dynamic surrounding the father and son relationship in cricket. All of us, for whom county cricket is part of our DNA, can conjure paternal combinations who have played the game professionally. In Yorkshire, Bairstow and Sidebottom are two surnames that […]
All Wickets Great and Small is Here!
**UPDATE – NOVEMBER 2017** I’m delighted my cricket book, All Wickets Great and Small, has been so generously reviewed and supported. Thanks to everyone who has bought a copy and all those who took the time to get in touch to offer their feedback, favourite chapter or cricket ground. If you’ve yet to snap up […]