ACS Cricket Equipment have a journey that centres on the Shaws and their family business based in the West Yorkshire village of Calverley. Over many years, they’ve forged a stellar reputation by providing sightscreens, roll-on cricket covers, flatsheet covers and roll-on cricket nets to grounds across the country. There’s a high chance that your club […]
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total-play partners with Cricket Yorkshire for 2025
Cricket Yorkshire is delighted to share news of a renewed partnership with total-play for 2025. Total Play are experts when it comes to cricket pitches and they support clubs and schools with natural & artificial cricket pitch design & construction. Over years, we have showcased the many non-turf cricket nets they have built here in […]
Grounds: Cricket Square Tasks for January
Welcome to this guide of cricket square jobs for the month ahead including cutting, brushing and more. There is video content and top tips, in association with Turfcareblog.com (where the article was originally published). 🌱 Cricket Yorkshire has teamed up with TurfcareBlog to share advice for those who look after cricket grounds. Circumstances and resources […]
Refurbish your outdoor cricket facilities with total-play Ltd
In this content collaboration with total-play Ltd, we’ll look at how cricket clubs and schools can refurbish a non-turf match pitch or outdoor net facility. Not everyone has the need or budget to build a brand-new non-turf practice facility – though we’ve highlighted examples of total-play nets installations here on the website over the years. […]
Skipton Community Sports Hub opens at Sandylands
The Skipton Community Sports Hub is a welcome new addition at Sandylands. The £1m new facility will be home to Skipton Cricket Club, Skipton Juniors FC and Skipton Ladies AFC, as well as being available for community use – as a bar and for venue hire. Malcolm Birks, chair of the Skipton Community Sports Hub, […]
ACS partners with Cricket Yorkshire for 2025
ACS Cricket Ground Equipment has renewed the partnership with Cricket Yorkshire for 2025, as we look to showcase their products over the coming year. The family business, based at Calverley in West Yorkshire, has manufactured and sold thousands of mobile covers, mobile batting cages, sightscreens and flat sheets nationwide over 15+ years. Whether you’re a […]
Ravenscar XI vs Scarborough Beckett League Women’s XI
Jon Stokoe shares news of a new women’s changing room at Ravenscar Cricket Club with an unveiling that included a cricket match on the North Yorkshire coast. Ravenscar Cricket Club held a special game on Saturday 7 September. It was to celebrate the opening of a newly built women’s changing room. The game was a […]
Andrew’s ground-hopping: 11 cricket grounds in Yorkshire
I’ve done quite a few more cricket-watching miles – inside and outside Yorkshire – than my 2024 Miles Per Gallon reports suggest. Nice to reflect, briefly, on visits to 11 Yorkshire grounds which, for one reason or another, didn’t receive a ‘full’ write-up.’ One sultry June evening, I was very pleased finally to see cricket […]
Swooping owls, Eton mess and cricket at Duncombe Park
I am not an early bird but Saturday promised adventure and an Owl Experience at the National Centre for Birds of Prey in Duncombe Park. So it was that Mrs Cricket Yorkshire and I were zipping through the quiet streets of Shipley, Otley and then zooming along past Harrogate and Knaresborough. Traffic was negligible as […]
Anthony Burton (total-play Ltd) on non-turf cricket nets
A decade ago, I first met Anthony Burton of Total Play Ltd at a winter event where a few companies were attending Sutton-in-Craven Cricket Club to chat with clubs in the area. For years since, he has been heavily involved when it comes to supporting clubs realise their dream of new or upgraded non-turf cricket […]