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) […]
Cricket Grounds
Little Ribston Cricket Club in the land of glaciers and Knights
Mark Doherty heads to Little Ribston Cricket Club where their 1st XI hosted Knaresborough Forest CC 3rd XI in this Theakston Nidderdale League Division Seven fixture. It’s a Bit Chilly – Not! If I had found myself standing where I was at 1pm on Saturday 31st May…maybe 20,000 years ago…Little Ribston’s ground would potentially have been […]
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 […]
Where does Yorkshire (and its club cricket) begin and end?
Geographically, where does Yorkshire (and its club cricket) begin and end? Plenty would say Saddleworth is still very much part of the Broad Acres, despite it being more than 50 years since this most scenic of upland districts, a West Riding outlier, was absorbed by the Greater Manchester behemoth. Yorkshire Ridings The Yorkshire Society sums […]
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 […]
CLOSED: Ilkley Recycled Plastic Bench for your club
Our website partner, British Recycled Plastic, offered cricket clubs a chance to win an Ilkley Recycled Plastic Bench with Sloped Backrest (Black or Brown) worth over £500! **THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED – but you can still read about the products below…. This traditional bench comfortably seats three adults and the arms help those who […]
Life lessons at Airedale as Denholme triumph
Mark Doherty heads to Airedale Cricket Club where their 2nd XI hosted Denholme CC 2nd XI in this Craven and District Cricket League Division Four fixture. Argricultural at Otley I wasn’t sure if it would be a portent for my day as I filtered into the traffic that surrounded the Otley Show midmorning. I hadn’t […]
Height, heat and horses at Low Moor Holy Trinity
Today was a visit to the Halifax Cricket League and a club I’d never been to before. Low Moor Holy Trinity 2nd XI were at home to Stones in the First Division for 2nd XIs. It was a weird day weather-wise. I had a coat and jumper but expected to shed both at some point. […]