Aden Biddle talks to Norton Woodseats about life as a cricket club who play in a public park. During the depths of winter in lockdown, it was possible to believe that summer would just never come. Rest assured it will and one sight that will be familiar is cricket being played in one of Yorkshire’s […]
Cricket Grounds
Exploring club cricket grounds: Hopping mad
Andrew Gallon reflects on his journeys across Yorkshire club cricket as an avid ‘groundhopper.’ From the best views, finest cricket teas and strangest geography, dozens of clubs feature in his round-up: The arcane practice of groundhopping – watching matches at as many different grounds as possible – is fairly well known in football. There are […]
How did Yorkshire’s cricket grounds look for the first weekend of the season?
The weekend of 18-19 April 2020 was meant to be the starting blocks for a glorious summer of club cricket. Due to the suspension of all recreational sport and coronavirus lockdown, cricket grounds across the country instead lie dormant and empty. I thought the work that groundsmen and cricket clubs put into their facilities and […]