Green Hammerton Cricket Club hosted Thorner Mexborough CC in a Yorkshire Premier League North – Division Three Ebor match, watched by Mark Doherty. Looking Back Providing coverage of the various leagues around Yorkshire is a constant process of juggling requests to visit grounds with even coverage of the various leagues and cup competitions, and trying […]
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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 […]
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 […]
YPLN Hundred: Bridlington and Brandesburton shine
Always keen to increase my ‘grounds visited’ total, I leapt at the chance to watch two matches – at different venues – on the same day. The Yorkshire Premier League North’s 2025 Hundred first round provided an opportunity, on a Sunday, to take in Premier League Two Bridlington hosting Championship East Scarborough (10.30) followed by […]
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 […]
Kirk Hammerton rise again and return to midweek cricket
Apparently all good things come to those who wait. Fortunate really as this interview with Matthew Jenkins, Chair of Kirk Hammerton Cricket Club, was done when dinosaurs still roamed the earth and I’ve been sitting on it like a skinny chicken. The premise is simple enough. Club in crisis faces sink or swim moment. I […]
Welton win by a Furlong to top YPLN Championship East
Although cricket is a team game, individual performances frequently take the eye. An important Yorkshire Premier League North fixture, at Welton & Brough Sports Club, between Championship East promotion contenders Welton (second) and Pickering (first), featured two stellar solo contributions. Welton’s 104-run victory, in a contest whose outcome hung in the balance for much longer […]
Roast beef, Waifs and Strays at Glasshouses in new beginning
We don’t tend to run match reports on Cricket Yorkshire but this ticked a few boxes and had some classic lines. The captain of Waifs and Strays CC Tom Saunderson let me know the welcome news that their freshly-formed team is calling Glasshouses, outside Pateley Bridge, their home for friendlies. Tom, Amy Burton and Jack […]
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 […]