Opinion

This is an interview about the damage the sun can do – and how being out in it watching or playing cricket can play its part – from Lawrence, Chairman of Rawdon Cricket Club who has also worked for years at the Yorkshire Cricket Board. Keen to raise awareness of skin cancer, Lawrence has been […]

The news that BT Sport has won the UK TV rights to broadcast the next Ashes in Australia in 2017-18 was greeted here at CYHQ with a dollop of grumpiness, lashings of indignation and a sprinkling of excitement. The five-year deal between the broadcaster and Cricket Australia, understood to be a cool £80m, once again […]

From time to time, writers submit their thoughts for consideration on Cricket Yorkshire and there’s been some really popular articles around club cricket this season. As Yorkshire take their final few strides towards the LV=County Championship title (or not), it’s the turn of county cricket as Tom Collins took the train down to the Sussex […]

Spoiler alert. If you care about the game of cricket in any way, shape or form, the cricket documentary, Death of a Gentleman, will have you weeping into your popcorn – if you haven’t already chucked it at the screen when Giles Clarke appears. This is absorbing viewing, as skilfully put together as any Joe […]

While some cricket statistics remain etched into time like barnacles on a boat, others are at risk as were the sand castles braced for the lapping waves on Scarborough’s North Bay Beach during this year’s cricket festival. If the briefest summer shower of cricket stats is your thing then here we go… 1 – The […]

So, Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s Andrew Gale has relinquished his limited-overs captaincy with immediate effect. The news comes in the wake of a poor NatWest T20 Blast campaign where the county under-performed and failed to make the knock-out stages. Gale also drew criticism from certain quarters for his wavering strike-rate as a T20 opening batsmen […]

The debate around city-based T20 franchises in England and Wales has erupted again with the news that Sky has offered £40m a year to broadcast a new Twenty20 tournament for 2017. If this is to be believed, eight city-based teams would play in a three-week block in summer with games screened in the evenings. It […]

Yorkshire County Cricket Club can now turn their attention fully to the Royal London One-Day Cup safe in the knowledge that little distracts them from a proper crack at one-day cricket. After being dumped out of the NatWest T20 Blast (less said the better) and then winning at Scarborough to go a whopping 34 points […]

In 2015, John Fuller talked with club cricketers in Yorkshire about the challenges and rewards of Ramadan. The month of Ramadan represents the holiest month in the year for Muslims around the world and for those that play cricket, it can offer both challenges and a positive impact on their game. In the Islamic calendar, […]

There is a very short and sweet answer to that question but in the spirit of cricket debate, let’s kick this topic around. The reason for the article in the first place has been rumblings from the Ridings about Aaron Finch – now sadly off back to Oz after a broken foot ended his unsuccessful […]