Kirkstall Educational Cricket Club, of the Aire-Wharfe Cricket League, have fingers crossed that a current Yorkshire Water project finishes on time for the 2026 season. The water company is installing a new storage tank at Kirkstall’s ground so there is currently a cavernous hole in the outfield at the far end. According to a Yorkshire […]
Cricket Grounds
Why cricket clubs might need a new lease of life
One of the trending topics on my travels this year for Cricket Yorkshire has been land ownership and the restrictions imposed on cricket clubs. In this article with Howden, our insurance partner, we’ll look at some of the issues relating to leases that may affect clubs, as well as their insurance. (This is a general […]
Cricket Yorkshire partners with Bespoke Scoreboards for 2025-26
Bespoke Scoreboards, the Yorkshire-based family business who manufacture and install cricket scoreboards for clubs and schools, have agreed to partner with Cricket Yorkshire for 2025-26. We will be showcasing why their scoreboards are so popular, particularly here in Yorkshire, and the personal service you get from initial enquiry to site visit to delivery, installation and […]
total-play: Darwen Dome, inflatable covers and grammar school nets
In this autumn round-up with total-play Ltd, we’ll look at a hat-trick of milestones as projects were completed by the installer of ECB-approved facilities. Grassroots first at Darwen DomeA second all-weather cricket facility, designed and built by total-play Ltd, has been unveiled in Lancashire. It follows the success of the debut project at Bradford Park […]
Leaders Embsay blown off course against Bolton Abbey
Embsay Cricket Club passed the ultimate test with flying colours. Sometimes I tell a club I’m coming and sometimes, I’m a tad disorganised, decide on the day or change my mind and we just hit the road. From the moment we parked up outside the gates, the Embsay flag not so much fluttering as writhing […]
Booth Cricket Club: Character, cows, cramp and chirping
Booth Cricket Club was a relatively late decision for the first match of August – but it turned to be one of my best ones. The drive from Cricket Yorkshire HQ is mostly one we know well having explored the ENCO Halifax Cricket League for years now. The A629 Grand Prix chicane out of Denholme, […]
Rain halts weekend games before Monday cup final drama
Harrogate CC Women welcomed St. Chad’s Broomfield CC, while Kirk Hammerton faced Spofforth CC in a rain-affected weekend of Yorkshire cricket, covered by Mark Doherty. High risk of pluvial One of the things that you’ll have probably noticed when reading the musings of John, Andrew or myself…is the fact that we all seem to spend […]
Cricket pitches: Can you water them during a hosepipe ban?
From 11 July 2025, Yorkshire Water imposed hosepipe restrictions – but what does that mean for cricket clubs? The focus is on household water consumption (so no hosepipes or sprinklers in the garden). Here, we explain what cricket clubs can do and also interview South Milford Cricket Club who came up with an innovative solution […]
Wolds apart as Hull Strikers win the Battle of Walkington
For the second time in five days, I found myself watching cricket on the fringes of the rippling Wolds, surely Yorkshire’s most underrated landscape. A quarter-final of the Yorkshire Premier League North’s Dave Conner Memorial Trophy, between teams placed second and first in Division Two Holderness, held sufficient eastern promise to tempt me back along […]
Advice, support and funding for maintaining cricket grounds
In this feature with the Yorkshire Cricket Board (YCB), we’ll discuss the pressures on cricket grounds in Yorkshire, improving standards and some of the new support now available for clubs and teams from the YCB. If you read Cricket Yorkshire regularly, you’ll know that capacity of grounds is a theme I frequently discuss. It’s the […]