North Leeds Women’s 1st XI captain Jacky Fitzpatrick is reflecting on a landmark 2025 season where her squad won Division 1 of the West Yorkshire Women & Girls League. For good measure, they made the national final of the ECB Women’s T20 Plate competition. As opening questions go, I’m curious if the outfit based on […]
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The Transplant Ashes are coming to Yorkshire
There are massive international cricket fixtures this season here in Yorkshire. The first Test between England and India looms large at Headingley but before that, the Ashes arrive. The Transplant Ashes is a series between England and Wales against Australia where all players have received life saving and life changing transplants. England and Wales Transplant […]
Bradford Park Avenue Ladies aim for league hat-trick
Bradford Park Avenue Ladies (BPAL) 1st XI captain Kirsty Gavillet is on her lunch break and sharing the club’s successes and future plans with me. Their ascent to unbeaten Division 1 champions in the West Yorkshire Women & Girls Cricket League can make you forget that the club only formed in 2019. Since finishing fourth […]
Iggy’s Fund: Remembering a gentle giant and apple crumble
I spotted a LinkedIn post and it gave me pause to smile, think of a friend who is no longer with us, his wonderful family and the legacy he has left behind. It also prompted fond flashbacks of apple crumble but we’ll come to that. Alan Igglesden (above right), known to everyone as Iggy, played […]
Softball shenanigans (and trophies) at Scholes
Fran Hamilton of Scholes Cricket Club, shares how women and girls’ cricket began and its subsequent successes. The Scholes women and girls cricket story started in August / September 2022, towards the end of season where the mums were having a drink and decided it would be a good idea to play hardball cricket in […]
Club Cricket Book: Dales, Bails and Cricket Club Tales
Come on a journey around Yorkshire’s club cricket grounds with my latest book, Dales, Bails and Cricket Club Tales. Available on Kindle and in paperback via Amazon, these are the dramas, landscapes and matches from the 2022 and 2023 seasons, with my travels around the region to clubs, grounds and games of all standards. The […]
Three families (and eight players) in Low Moor Holy Trinity XI
Martin Jenkins of Low Moor Holy Trinity Cricket Club shares news of an unusual club record and one they’re very proud of. Sunday 28th July saw a rather unique event occur for Halifax League side, Low Moor Holy Trinity in their match away at Bradshaw Cricket Club. Low Moor, who only seven years ago had just […]
The joy of cricket books with The Grove Bookshop
Mike Sansbury is General Manager of The Grove Bookshop in Ilkley and my latest guest on the Cricket Yorkshire Podcast. Half an hour whistles by as he discusses the importance of independent bookshops, some of his favourite cricket books and playing the game over the years. If you like books, cricket, browsing bookshops, hearing about […]
Record-breaker: Meet the Bradford League lead run-scorer of all-time
Richard Gould is now the Bradford League’s all-time top run-scorer after nudging past Richard Robinson’s tally of 17,476 runs. Batting for over 25 years of Bradford League cricket (that’s 500+ matches), Gould has played for Salts, Farsley, East Bierley, Gomersal, Keighley and now Northowram Fields. His cricket journey started as an eight-year-old at Thackley Cricket […]
Bradford League: Misfits, house martins and curly fries at Wagon Lane
It’s funny how you can re-visit something familiar with fresh eyes and see it in an entirely different light. On Saturday, I opted to visit the closest club to Cricket Yorkshire HQ and headed to Wagon Lane; home to Bradford & Bingley Cricket Club. I do dip in from time to time but despite its […]