Cricket Yorkshire is delighted to share news of a teamwear and equipment partnership with Bear Cricket for 2025. Bear Cricket are a popular choice with cricketers and clubs seeking high-quality, English willow cricket bats, grown here in Yorkshire, as well as stellar equipment and teamwear that’s well-reviewed. Their ambassadors include Yorkshire’s wicketkeeper-batter Jonny Tattersall, as […]
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2025 at grassroots: From girls’ cricket to grounds
What are going to be the trends in grassroots cricket in 2025? Well, this is when I peer into the future and make some educated / outlandish predictions. [Delete as applicable 😁] Girls’ cricket at clubs In my analysis of the ECB’s new 2025-2028 strategy, what stood out in the drive to have 6,000 girls’ […]
The CricketYorkies: Celebrating 2024
December is our month to reflect on the year and also hand out the internationally acclaimed virtual awards, the CricketYorkies. Here’s to celebrating 2024! Luckiest weather-dodging Er, this is awkward. The first award goes to…. me! While the club cricket season’s opening weeks were decimated due to relentlessly wet weather and pitches the consistency of […]
Paying club cricketers: Blurring the lines
Paying cricketers has to be the single most contentious issue in club cricket and is discussed here on Cricket Yorkshire. Editor’s Note: This article has been refreshed for 2025. Do club cricketers get paid? Yes, they do – but not everyone. The majority of amateur cricketers who play in clubs and leagues are not paid. […]
We are 200,000 Not Out (thanks to all of you)
Since the end of the cricket season, it has been a few months of contrasting fortunes here at Cricket Yorkshire HQ. The good, the bad and the unfortunate. As a means to kickstart the podcast back up, I’ve recorded a short episode (about 4 mins) to give you the latest and also to thank you […]
Club Cricket Book: Dales, Bails and Cricket Club Tales
Come on a journey around Yorkshire’s club cricket grounds with my latest book, Dales, Bails and Cricket Club Tales. Available on Kindle and in paperback via Amazon, these are the dramas, landscapes and matches from the 2022 and 2023 seasons, with my travels around the region to clubs, grounds and games of all standards. The […]
Reader Survey: How can we improve Cricket Yorkshire in 2025?
It’s that time of year. The nights are drawing in and planning is well underway for how this website moves forward in 2025. It’s been an incredible 12 months here in many ways and I am always mindful that you, the reader, are at the heart of its success. Thanks to everyone who takes the […]
Yorkshire’s Class of 2024: The Batters
Despite a very wet start to our Yorkshire outdoor season, batting fireworks have not been in short supply. Using Play-Cricket data, we’ve put together this shortlist to highlight the highest individual batting scores in Yorkshire. 👏 Top of the pile is Haris Khan’s 297 for Salem Athletic in the Quaid-e-Azam Sunday League that I figured […]
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 […]
Winners revealed in the Cricket Yorkshire Tea of the Year 2024
The Cricket Yorkshire Tea of the Year for 2024, sponsored by Yorkshire Tea, has been a blast to run again. We have shaken things up with new categories to reflect the cost of cricket teas as well as the diversity in diets, culture and food here in Yorkshire. The standard has been phenomenal again. The […]