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 […]
Cricket Grounds
Meltham Cricket Club: Sixes in the land of the green dragon
Hunkered down beneath the Dark Peak’s Wessenden Moor, cradled within a near-circle of a Holme Valley tributary’s gritstone hills, Meltham must count amongst Yorkshire’s most attractively sited small towns. A Thursday evening Huddersfield Premier League T20 Shield Knockout quarter-final, against local and Championship division rivals Slaithwaite, tempted me into making only a second visit to […]
Muff Field Cricket Club: Make, do, mend and marvel
Muff Field Cricket Club’s entrance has a number of blokes assembling a bench while a big black dog excitedly jumps up at the fence that separates us. (Mrs Cricket Yorkshire reckons I’m a dog whisperer and so it proves over the next few hours, becoming best friends with various canine companions.) I like to note […]
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 […]
Ingrow Cricket Club: Hundreds and a hat-trick ball in the clouds
Ingrow Cricket Club was the venue for Mark Doherty where their 2nd XI hosted Haworth CC 2nd XI in this Craven and District League Division Four fixture. The Journey Another visit to a Craven and District League club was in the offing and as I looked at the fixtures taking place on Saturday, there seemed […]
Relocated pavilion and home baking at Wath & Melmerby
A visit to Wath & Melmerby Cricket Club, North of the city of Ripon, promised a potential deluge, the prospect of a fine cricket tea and the story of a remarkable ground. Despite various weather apps predicting degrees of dismal rain, the journey over was no hardship scooting around Otley, Knaresborough and onto the A1(M) […]
Danby Cricket Club march on in Langbaurgh League
Joe Hudson reports on a low-scoring tussle from Danby Cricket Club in the North York Moors. As any good village cricketer knows, sometimes Lady Luck can smile down on you, other times she can be looking entirely in the other direction. Danby Cricket Club, sitting above the River Esk on a neat slice of the […]
Bishopthorpe Cricket Club: Crunch point to Clubmark
Bishopthorpe Cricket Club have an impressive story to tell. The village’s cricket team went from nearly folding to enjoying a stunning comeback with more players, sponsors and volunteers. Like many, the cricket club’s ground, outside York, is not owned by themselves but in this case by the Church of England. Bishopthorpe is where the Archbishop […]
Lofthouse and Middlesmoor: Sawdust and scenic Nidderdale
As Douglas Adams wrote in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy… “Stress and nervous tension are now serious social problems in all parts of the galaxy, and it is in order that this situation should not be in any way exacerbated, that the following facts now be revealed in advance.” It did in fact rain […]
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 […]