My interview with Richmondshire Cricket Club who wrapped up the NYSD with plenty of time to spare got me thinking. What’s the situation in the top divisions elsewhere? I keep an eye out across Yorkshire’s cricket leagues but now we’re getting to the last few weeks, there are trophies there for the taking. So here […]
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c Spencer b Spencer – Father and son cricket on Sundays
It’s gone high. “Don’t drop it, don’t drop, don’t drop it. You’ll never hear the last of it,” I’m thinking. Safely taken. Dream moment accomplished. ‘c Spencer b Spencer’ “No ball.” Oh, the ecstasy and cruelty of cricket in one second. Quite often it’s Dads that have inspired their kids to take up cricket but, […]
Down to the wire at Lepton Highlanders who make T20 Finals Day
Andrew Gallon heads to Lepton Highlanders, for this semi-final of the Huddersfield Cricket League’s T20 Shield, against Clayton West. “It was always going to be close,” remarked one of the match umpires, as he stowed broad-brimmed hat and white coat in the boot of his car. He’d just witnessed, at enviably closer quarters than our […]
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 […]