Congratulations to Australia’s World Cup winners! They were everything that England weren’t. With the bat they were bold and powerful, with the ball they were sharp and skilful. They dominated a tournament where the weak sides were painfully exposed, none more so than England. England’s campaign was poor, expectations were low and the players failed […]
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Cricket Yorkshire sponsors Leeds Bradford MCCU
CricketYorkshire.com is a cricket website business going places and on that journey, securing sponsorship deals with talented professional cricketers is part of the strategy to raise its profile. I’m absolutely delighted that Cricket Yorkshire will be shirt sponsor and media partner of Leeds Bradford MCCU for the 2015 season. Our distinctive green CY logo […]
Dickie Bird to run for Prime Minister
Harold ‘Dickie’ Bird, announced this morning, in a world-exclusive for CricketYorkshire.com that he has decided to campaign for the job of Prime Minister. The current President of Yorkshire County Cricket Club showed his people power when he was recently re-elected for a second term of office at Headingley and as the current MP for cricket […]
Headingley’s floodlit future is here
Floodlights are here at Headingley as Yorkshire County Cricket Club puts more of the infrastructure in place that it believes will safeguard its future as an international venue for years to come. The 56-metre floodlights situated in the four corners of the venue will be ready for the new season and hats off to the […]
Unleash the paint brushes: NatWest CricketForce
Here’s a thought for you all. We might never have had NatWest CricketForce and all the great work clubs do for their facilities each Spring, if it wasn’t for Charlie Dimmock. The NatWest CricketForce concept – where clubs galvanise volunteers one pre-season weekend annually to make running repairs – evolved originally from the popularity of […]
Here’s to the next generation of Junior Crickets
My life would now be dramatically different, had I not began life as a cricket coach in a royal London Park, supervising 5-9 year olds as a university summer job. I might never have met my wife (the ultimate inspiration for Cricket Yorkshire), whose cousin I first befriended whilst safeguarding pint-sized minions as they rocketed […]
Will England qualify and do we want them to?
Right. That’s it. I have had enough. Consider this England’s World Cup rocket from a position of extreme grumpiness. I have sat up into the early hours, with only a strong mug of tea and a crème egg for companionship, to watch England get absolutely decimated three times now. There comes a tipping point in […]
2019 Cricket World Cup moves to December
Following on from football’s re-shuffling of a global tournament, we have something of a world exclusive… **The 2019 creeckit World Cup in England will now be held in December.** It will have its own hashtag and everything: #wintercricketworldcup. Woolly hats off to the organisers for realising that this bold move will radically shake up world […]
What the IPL auction would look like in club cricket
When the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction swings around, it’s hard not to find it obscene. Sure, it generates talking points – who was a relative bargain, who went unsold and who was signed for enough to feed a village of Indian families for the next five decades. But the real winners of the IPL […]
Can we trust the safety of our cricket helmets?
A little like jamming the bat down on a yorker too late or lobbing up a juicy slower ball too early, cricket journalism can be all about the timing. A product review of the new Masuri Vision Series cricket helmet was about to be published on this website when the news came through about Australian […]