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6 ways to get your cricket when the season’s on pause
We’re in an unprecedented period at the moment with all cricket suspended due to coronavirus. At home and spending far more time than usual indoors, it’s a chance to think creatively about how we connect with the game in different ways. If you’re looking for inspiration, I’ve put together a free guide with ideas and […]
Cricket Yorkshire partners Optimax Eye Surgery Specialists
Cricket Yorkshire is delighted to introduce Optimax Eye Surgery Specialists as a commercial partner on this website for 2020. Optimax is the UK’s longest established eye surgery specialists and has 22 locations across the UK, including one in Leeds. The clinics are all equipped with advanced laser technology, offering exceptional levels of safety and precision. Their […]
Cricket Yorkshire teams up with Halifax Cricket League
Since 2011, Cricketyorkshire.com has been promoting all forms of Yorkshire cricket from interviews with Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow and Adil Rashid to hundreds of club visits and talking with those that so impressively power the grassroots game. That’s over a million words, thousands of photos and yes, a few cricket teas along the way. Going […]
10 Not Out: New Year’s Resolutions at Cricket Yorkshire
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 […]
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 […]