Embed from Getty Images As I watched aghast as England’s batting crumple against South Africa, like a misbehaving deckchair at the Scarborough Festival, it conjured up a memory from school. Inept with a cricket bat to the point that it was purely for decorative purposes, I was once required to see off 20 overs for […]
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Going, going on! What’s a cricket memorabilia auction like?
The journey over to Lancashire County Cricket Club for my first-ever cricket memorabilia auction is spent in the back of a car, listening to seasoned collectors Brian and Bob swap anecdotes. On the outskirts of Manchester, we pass through Swinton and, paused at a set of traffic lights, my eye is drawn to a bloke […]
New Year’s Resolutions: deep heat and book deal
Ok, so the Christmas turkey has long since bitten the dust and January is here, heralding a land of opportunity. Have you thought about your 2016? What do you want it to look like? Any projects, ambitions or changes to life or are you the sort of person that contentedly wings it? Well, both professionally […]
The ultimate Christmas gift shortlist for cricket fans
Ok everyone, December is here so talk of Christmas no longer feels premature. Even though the supermarkets have been flogging mince pies since the end of the county season. Are you the type to leave Christmas shopping until the last minute then get on Amazon and click round in a state of near panic? Perhaps […]
Ditching the coin toss and don’t say balls to pink
Plans to scrap the coin toss in Division Two of the LV=County Championship next season has sent seismic, shuddering shock waves through the global game. The idea is to…wait for this decisive, bold and innovative step into the unknown…trial it for a year in 2016 to see what happens. It has yet to be rubberstamped, […]
Cricket Yorkshire’s Christmas Raffle for Cancer Research
The most memorable charity endeavour I’ve done may well have been the time I threw myself out a plane as a tandem skydive into a field in Kent some years past. There is nothing quite like travelling towards the ground at 120mph to encourage you to ponder the meaning of life. This year, the plan […]
Sixes and samosas with Dewsbury vicars and imams
Back in September 2015, John Fuller travelled to Dewsbury to watch an unusual cricket match. Minutes from the hustle and bustle of central Dewsbury, down a path that melds to the contour of the river Calder, lies a gem of a cricket ground. With the striking backdrop of the aquaduct, Sands Lane playing fields was […]
Could the BT Sport Ashes deal rejuvenate English cricket?
The news that BT Sport has won the UK TV rights to broadcast the next Ashes in Australia in 2017-18 was greeted here at CYHQ with a dollop of grumpiness, lashings of indignation and a sprinkling of excitement. The five-year deal between the broadcaster and Cricket Australia, understood to be a cool £80m, once again […]
Ashes – Australia 60 All Out: How Twitter reacted
If Stuart Broad thought that his 300th Test wicket was something to savour, after only three balls of this extraordinary Ashes Test, what happened next took some believing. Australia groggily staggered into an English seam bowling masterclass and fell like skittles. So, you probably now know that Australia were all out for just 60 in […]
Who’s Who? Cricketers doing magic and juggling fire
The Cricket Yorkshire office had a cricket book thump onto the doormat in time for the 2015 county season. It has a mint cover (in colour and condition) with Joe Root teeing off while Moeen Ali, who writes the foreword, clutches his Kookaburra and looks into the readers’ eyes. The Cricketers’ Who’s Who’s, published by […]