Cricket Interviews

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.

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.

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.

The Yorkshire Cricket Board’s Outstanding Services to Cricket Awards, known as OSCAs, was held on Thursday 7th August when Yorkshire cricket honoured the achievements and service given by a range of volunteers within recreational cricket across the county.

In a corner of Northamptonshire, a cricket revolution of sorts is flourishing. Cricket Deal Direct, run by Ian Anderson, is the vehicle behind Indian brand, SM, which is quietly getting a thumbs-up from more and more UK cricketers.

Involved with Durham County Cricket Club since 2006, Phil Dicks has now brought his considerable expertise down to Yorkshire in the field of performance analysis.

Richard Wilkinson’s dad was one of these that wore every single hat from secretary to chairman; Richard would follow him as he played all weekend and midweek. The Wilkinsons are a cricketing family; one of many in Yorkshire with grandfather, father and son all heavily into the game.

Usman Arshad is the Bradford-born twenty-one year old allrounder who is making a real impact with the four-day county Champions, Durham. Picking over the bones of his fledgling stats reveal that this professional cricketer is only just starting out – with 11 first-class games and six twenty20 appearances to his name. He bats at nine […]

An opportunity has arisen to sit down to talk cricket and eyecare with optometrist Simon Falk across the road from his practice on the outskirts of Roundhay Park in Leeds.

Mulvantrai Himmatlal Mankad – or Vinoo to his mates – caused a storm from the moment he ran Bill Brown out in the Sydney Test of the 1947-8 series between Australia and India. The controversial dismissal – which now bears his name – is when a batsman, out of his crease, is run out at […]