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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 […]
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 […]
The Cricket Yorkshire 50
Cricket revels in its stats and likes a list almost as much as Mrs Cricket Yorkshire. Fastest T20 innings of the season when batting with shoelaces undone, percentage of reverse sweeps when on nought, slowest delivery of all time…. For a couple of years, I’ve meant to put together a bit of a Who’s Who’s […]