Bring on 2020. As a writer, Yorkshire cricket has endless possibilities for exploration. Looking back for a moment, what a year it’s been. The Cricket Yorkshire website has had more readers than ever before and the numbers following on social media continue to grow. That’s important for a number of reasons. Firstly, it shows that […]
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Have your say in the Cricket Yorkshire Reader Survey 2018 [CLOSED]
[SURVEY CLOSED] Your views always matter here at CYHQ and this is the time of year when I ask for readers to share their opinions on: It’s been a really encouraging year with more people reading the Cricket Yorkshire website than ever before and the goal of this survey is tweak and hone it so […]
Cricket Yorkshire in 2016: Cricket clubs to Yorkshire & England stars
Sat in the Cricket Yorkshire office working off the welcome excesses of Christmas bingeing – by powerlifting After Eights like there’s no tomorrow – what better time to reflect on 2016? So, if you’re after a snapshot of the oscillating fortunes of Yorkshire cricket then nestle back, stick another log on the fire and enjoy […]
Questions to answer ahead of England’s Test series with India
Embed from Getty Images Well, England drawing the two-Test series with Bangladesh was not in any script. Bangladesh have never beaten England in Test cricket until now (Zimbabwe and West Indies were their only victories in nearly a hundred Tests) so it’s a significant milestone in their history. To achieve some sort of perspective, according […]
Technology offers broadcast hope for cricket but beware too many strings
Embed from Getty Images The Test match in Chittagong that England edged by twenty two runs was acclaimed as an absolute humdinger. This was down-to-the-wire, chew-your-fingernails-ragged, watch-between-splayed-fingers sporting tension but how many followed it? It got me thinking about the shifting sands of how we consume media and that the fractured nature of broadcasting and […]
Winning the JM Kilburn Cricket Writer of the Year Award
You just never know what surprises life will offer up like a juicy half volley outside off stump. It had been a rough fortnight combining poor health, helter-skelter travel around the UK and broadband blackout (don’t get me started on EE, they have been atrocious) when an email from Mick Pope, Secretary of Wombwell Cricket […]
What do you want to read on cricketyorkshire.com?
I need your help before you go into winter hibernation unless you’re the pockets of international Cricket Yorkshire readers from South Africa, India and Australia for whom winter means warmth and light past 3pm. Once the season is over, some cricket fans switch their attention to other sports, glue themselves to England’s exploits overseas or […]
You’ll never guess who we’re sponsoring in 2016
Thanks to all of you who read the articles and engage on social media, Cricket Yorkshire continues to grow. But there’s no resting on laurels here so, as part of a wider strategy to get the Cricket Yorkshire name out there more, a number of sponsorship deals have been struck for 2016. Steve Patterson (Yorkshire […]
Cricket Yorkshire’s partnerships
With the cricket season around the corner, I thought it was an ideal time to introduce the companies and organisations that Cricket Yorkshire will be working with commercially for the rest of 2016. I’m delighted that they are all people I’ve worked with for a number of years, whom complement the readership and content on […]