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 […]
Cricket Features
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 […]
How to watch the cricket World Cup 2015
Ok, two assumptions. You’re a cricket fan based in the UK and you want to watch the cricket World Cup 2015. Apologies to cricket fans around the world looking for country-specific broadcasting details. Due to the fractured nature of TV and online media rights, the best I can do for you is flag up directions […]
Can England play and look the part at a cricket World Cup?
View image | gettyimages.com We have a brash Australian media mogul to thank for coloured clothing in cricket and it wasn’t Rupert Murdoch. The notion of breakaway cricket competitions barely raises an eyebrow now but the World Series Cricket (WSC) between 1977 and 1979 was less evolution, more revolution. Kerry Packer designed a bold, alternative […]
Cricket questions you thought too daft to ask
Whatever our knowledge and interest in cricket, we can’t know everything. Or at least understand everything. Some things are casually explained away in cricket because, well, it’s just the way it is.