It’s the tail-end of January and snow blankets the Headingley outfield at Yorkshire County Cricket Club. You can imagine groundsman Andy Fogerty greets such seasonal novelties with stoicism; an eye already on a packed summer of cricket ahead. Speaking of planning, wherever you look, there are changes afoot across the board with the County Champions. […]
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Scarborough Heartache to County Champions
Yorkshire’s historic championship in 2014 may have been sealed with an emphatic victory over Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in September, but the seeds for that triumph were sown in the dark despair of 12 months earlier in a dejected dressing room at the Oval.
Exploring the game in Sri Lanka with Island Cricket
Island Cricket is a digital success story. The website features all aspects of Sri Lankan cricket with a blend of curated content that’s either been submitted by fans or written by staff. Have a read as we discuss Sri Lankan cricket. *This article from 2014 is a rare feature on international cricket and is being […]
Yorkshire Cricket Board Teams Up With Pitchero
The launch of the Yorkshire Cricket Board’s new website has been inevitably cause for feverish excitement in the Cricket Yorkshire office. There are very few things in life where I am more likely to be hawkishly opinionated than assessing, road testing and de-constructing the merits of an online resource.
Kirkstall Educational CC’s Vandalism Nightmare
It takes a particular brand of moron to repeatedly vandalise a cricket club, over and over, mindlessly seeking to destroy the hard work put in by volunteers and the local community.
Celebrating The Asian Cricket Awards
The realization that Asian cricketers make up around thirty percent of all those who play our wonderful game in this country has been cause for both reflection and now action.
Cake, Tea and Cricket with Mr Carson
As Somerset set about surpassing Yorkshire’s total of 253 at Headingley, it was time to swap the press box for tea and cake with Mr Carson from the BBC’s Downton Abbey.
Hull Cricket Club’s Bold Evolution
Hull has been a proud cricketing hub since as far back as 1875 when North and South XIs played each other on Argyle Street at the Town Cricket Club ground. But it’s been a history littered with upheaval.
Pyrah On ‘That’ Catch and his 2015 Benefit
Imagine this. You’re on as substitute fielder for Yorkshire County Cricket Club on their most important morning in recent history. Gary Ballance is in the pavilion icing his hand; Nottinghamshire are teetering on the brink of an innings defeat and James Taylor is doggedly digging in.
Castleford CC: Welcome to Cas-Vegas
Northern Rail’s wheezing bone-rattler from Leeds unceremoniously deposits me at Castleford station; a bleak cul-de-sac with a car park and The Station pub that straddles the corner between Welbeck Street and Enterprise Way.