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 […]
Cricket Interviews
Straight Drive to Survive: Vinesh’s Story
Vinesh Patel is this year’s Cricket Innovator Award winner at the YCB’s Cricket Collective Awards. They celebrate the efforts of volunteers across the grassroots game and are organised by the Yorkshire Cricket Board, in partnership with Yorkshire County Cricket Club and the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation. Vinesh or ‘Vinnie’ as he’s known, has done something pretty […]
Alan Igglesden: Remembering Iggy
Former Kent & England bowler Alan Igglesden, affectionately known as Iggy, died on 1 November 2021, aged 57, after a long battle with brain cancer. I first met Iggy for an article in The Cricketer Magazine; the original interview (read below) came about through a combination of Twitter and the offer of ginger cake. I […]
Grassroots Cricket Awards celebrate volunteers across Yorkshire
The inaugural Grassroots Cricket Awards for Yorkshire took place at Headingley on 23 March to recognise all of those volunteers who contribute to recreational cricket in Yorkshire. This delayed and rebooted version of what used to be the ‘OSCAs’ is organised by the Yorkshire Cricket Board and there are new categories, with nine recipients chosen […]
Disability cricket takes off at Skipton Cricket Club
John Fuller talks to Ji Mukherjee of Skipton Cricket Club about coaching disability cricket and how he feels it has positively impacted the Skipton community. 1. How did your disability cricket coaching start and why did you choose that area to become involved in? I teach PE in several primary schools locally and was asked […]
Technology and innovation: Keys to boosting club cricket?
John Fuller discusses the role of technology and innovation in recreational cricket with Luke Brooksby, of Illingworth St. Mary’s Cricket Club. Congratulations, you’ve won an ECB national award for ‘Cricket Innovator’ – you must be delighted? Thank you very much. I was thrilled to hear about being nominated for both awards, and then to win […]
Raqeeb Younis: A testing summer for Jer Lane captain
Bill Marshall talks to captain Raqeeb Younis about battling back from Covid and the push for trophies at Jer Lane Cricket Club in the Gordon Rigg Bradford Premier League. Raqeeb Younis is just grateful to be walking this earth, let alone playing cricket. The Jer Lane captain may have been thinking cricket, cricket, cricket at […]
Sophie Devine & Paul Grayson on Yorkshire Diamonds’ trophy drive
August heralds the return of the Kia Super League (KSL) as the women’s cricket tournament that sits between the county and international game is back for its second year. For the Yorkshire Diamonds, it’s all change as the refreshed squad has a new coach in Paul Grayson, while England internationals Katherine Brunt, Jenny Gunn and […]
Maryam Ali inspires girls to play cricket
We all know a cricket coach that has proved pivotal whether for a team we support, our own relationship with the game or who has been instrumental for someone we know. For Leeds-based community coach Maryam Ali, her journey in cricket is only really starting but yet for those girls whom she’s encouraging to connect […]
Dennis Does Cricket: Caustic Aussie cricket writing
The blurry man staring out at me shifts in his chair in Melbourne and tinkers with his webcam. Meet Dennis Freedman, creator of Dennis Does Cricket, a website Cricket Yorkshire has kept its beady eye on as part of a continual scour of the t’interweb thingy for inspiration. Occasionally, Cricket Yorkshire will profile other cricket […]