If you’re interested in cricket umpiring, as a spectator, player, official, club or league, then this Cricket Yorkshire Podcast will be right up your street. It is packed with stories and insight of life in the white coat from Jonathan Crabtree (above left), who officiates in the Yorkshire Cricket Southern Premier League and Yorkshire Premier […]
Interviews
Mentoring ECB cricket coaches with Yusuf Karolia
The focus switches to cricket coaching in the recreational game on the latest Cricket Yorkshire Podcast episode. My guest is Yusuf Karolia who is a Level 3 coach and also an ECB Developer who trains and mentors cricket coaches. If that doesn’t keep him busy enough, Yusuf is also a Board member of the National […]
Sheffield Caribbean: Nurturing talent as a feeder club
Milton Samuels has lived and breathed Caribbean Cricket Club in Sheffield since joining at the age of 14. Some 50 years later, he has a few stories to tell. Back then in the 70s, Crookesmoor (as it was) played friendlies as they didn’t think they were good enough for league cricket. With no home ground […]
James Lee: Facing Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Ex-Yorkshire County Cricket Club seam bowler James Lee recalls a second chance with Leeds Bradford MCCU and a five-wicket haul before lunch against his old county in the 2013 season-opener. *This article originally appeared in Cricket Yorkshire’s Best of 2013 Magazine.** Growing up through the junior ranks with Yorkshire County Cricket Club, it was clear […]
John Heald: My favourite cricket photos of 2019
John Heald is a brilliant cricket photographer whose work regularly appears on Cricket Yorkshire as well as our social media channels. Unusually, he covers the full spectrum from the epic Ashes Test at Headingley to grassroots league action such as Aire Wharfe cricket. I’ll confess…part of the reason for this photo-feature is to encourage you […]
How much cricket is there in Yorkshire state schools?
If I had a pound for every time I hear that a lack of cricket in schools is the game’s perennial problem, I could probably fund Chance to Shine’s ambitions myself. Investigating cricket in state schools across Yorkshire is to uncover some hard truths, uncomfortable realities and yet also marvel at what’s being achieved in […]
YCB’s Johnny Younis talks cricket in South Yorkshire
Johnny Younis is about to dash off for an All Stars school assembly but is shoehorning in a quick interview with Cricket Yorkshire. The Yorkshire Cricket Board’s Community Cricket Officer for Sheffield & Rotherham wears many hats but encouraging the ECB’s entry-level programme for 5-8 year-olds is key among them. Outdoor sessions are about to […]
Jonathan Doidge on club cricket, Yorkshire and a dream job
It was a crisp March morning inside the Carnegie Pavilion when BBC Radio Leeds’ cricket commentator Jonathan Doidge joined me to gaze out at the Headingley outfield and talk county cricket, the club scene and all things sport. The Doidge name will already be known to many of you across club cricket in West Yorkshire […]
Abbeyfield sees the potential of Clock Cricket
It’s not often you witness an entirely new form of the game where Mary, a 94-year-old blind woman is happily sat indoors trying to launch a cricket ball at the roof. Welcome to Clock Cricket, created by Richard Hill, the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) Disability Cricket Support Officer. The goal is to encourage […]
Leeds Bradford MCCU: First-class…for now
As the sun streams through the balcony window of the pavilion at Weetwood, Andrew Lawson, Head Coach of Leeds/Bradford MCCU, is summoning the words to assess the 336-run defeat down at Derby that concluded the day before. It has been a chastening few days for the student sides against county opposition, highlighted by Somerset’s enormous […]